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Fund Supports $250,000 Annual Student Prize For Software, Technology Business Plan
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Fund Supports $250,000 Annual Student Prize For Software, Technology Business Plan

A group of investors has created a $1.1 million fund to support $250,000 in annual prize money to Indiana University Bloomington students who submit the best...

Physics Professor a Modern Day 'mr. Wizard'
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Physics Professor a Modern Day 'mr. Wizard'

Southeastern Louisiana University physicist Rhett Allain is a modern day "Mr. Wizard." Author of the highly popular science blog Dot Physics, he analyzes ideas...

Chinese Students Are Storming ­.s. Grad Schools: They Have the Money and the Brains
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Chinese Students Are Storming ­.s. Grad Schools: They Have the Money and the Brains

If you build it, they will come. No, I'm not talking about a baseball field amidst stalks of corn but the educational institutions dotting the U.S. landscape...

Technion Students Create Application that 'writes' Books
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Technion Students Create Application that 'writes' Books

Students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a computer app that scours Wikipedia to "write" books in a matter of minutes on any subject...

Nsf Grant to Expand Computer Science Principles Curriculum
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Nsf Grant to Expand Computer Science Principles Curriculum

The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding a program to offer "computer science principles" classes at San Diego area high schools, community colleges, and...

In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
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In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores

Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As...

When Computer Programming Was Women's Work
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When Computer Programming Was Women's Work

Nearly thirty-five years ago, 11% of computer science majors were women. Their proportion continued to rise steadily, reaching its peak (37%) in 1984. Then, over...

Math Anxiety: Deal With It Early, Professor Says
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Math Anxiety: Deal With It Early, Professor Says

Math anxiety is a problem that usually starts at an early age, and if it isn't addressed in grade school, math anxiety can hinder students throughout their education...

Program Encourages Government Employees to Innovate
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Program Encourages Government Employees to Innovate

Now beginning its second year, the Masters of Science in Leadership, offered by Washington University in St. Louis in partnership with the Brookings Institution...

Remedies For Science's Shortage of Superheroes
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Remedies For Science's Shortage of Superheroes

A serious personnel shortage in the global science and engineering workforce involves a the scarcity of real-life superheroes with charm, charisma, people skills...

Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World
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Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World

As part of a dramatic effort to expand its IT offerings to a global audience, Stanford University will be offering 101-level courses free online on artificial...

Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker
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Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker

Back to school time and millions of British kids are heading back to classrooms to embark on the national curriculum so beloved of busybody ministers.

Nsf Grant Supports Development of STEM Games For Blind Students
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Nsf Grant Supports Development of STEM Games For Blind Students

The National Science Foundation has awarded Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis approximately $250,000 to further research and development of online...

Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree
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Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree

Harvard and Ohio State are not going to disappear any time soon. But a host of new online enterprises are making earning a college degree cheaper, faster, and...

More Chinese Students Look to U.s. For Grad School
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More Chinese Students Look to U.s. For Grad School

The International Graduate Admissions Survey found that the number of Chinese applicants to U.S. graduate schools increased by 21 percent from this past school...

Can Computer Science Skills Save Democracy?
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Can Computer Science Skills Save Democracy?

IT recruiters all across the country report difficulty finding the talent that their client companies need. At CCC Blog, Henry Kautz of the Department of Computer...

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Nasa and Tor-Forge Books Partner in Themed Science Fiction Works

In an effort to introduce, inform, and inspire readers about NASA, the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, has partnered with Tor-Forge Books...

Navigate the Booming Computer Science Market
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Navigate the Booming Computer Science Market

Computer science students with bachelor's or master's degrees are in demand now and are expected to be for the next decade. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor...

Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course
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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course

A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...

Grad Students' Work Is Better When Teaching and Research Are Part of Mix
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Grad Students' Work Is Better When Teaching and Research Are Part of Mix

Graduate students in the STEM fields who both teach and conduct research demonstrate greater ability to generate testable hypotheses and design experiments than...
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