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Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller
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Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller

On Thursday, Aug. 4, the MIT Press held a party in MIT's Stata Center to celebrate the sale of the 500,000th copy of the textbook Introduction to Algorithms....

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Apple Most Popular Employer with Fresh Graduates in Singapore

Consumer electronics giant Apple was chosen as the most popular employer among fresh graduates in Singapore this year again, a latest survey showed.  The survey...

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Education Needs a Digital-Age ­pgrade

If you have a child entering grade school this fall, file away just one number with all those back-to-school forms: 65 percent. Chances are just that good that...

You Can Count on This: Math Ability Is Inborn
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You Can Count on This: Math Ability Is Inborn

Do some people arrive in the world with better math skills than others? A study by a team of psychologists at Johns Hopkins University suggests they do.

Tech Girlz Rule: Microsoft Camps Designed to Draw Young Women Into Field
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Tech Girlz Rule: Microsoft Camps Designed to Draw Young Women Into Field

Microsoft's Fargo, ND campus drew participants from multiple states to a three-day event designed to spark interest and provide role models for the next generation...

Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?
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Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?

It happens every summer. In the weeks after the annual National College Entrance Examination, new high school graduates wait for the list. For years, who gets...

China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower
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China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower

China was probably the world's earliest technological superpower, inventing the plow, the compass, gunpowder, and block printing. Then, science in the Middle...

How ­niversities Will Produce the Next Generation of Ict Stars
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How ­niversities Will Produce the Next Generation of Ict Stars

The dot-com bust of the early 2000s had a devastating effect on the number of students enrolling in college ICT programs. It has taken almost a decade to recover...

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The Master's as the New Bachelor's

William Klein's story may sound familiar to his fellow graduates. After earning his bachelor's in history from the College at Brockport, he found himself living...

City Students Discover Love of Science
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City Students Discover Love of Science

A 10-year retrospective study has validated Project Exploration's personalized, out-of-school time approach to science education for urban teenagers.

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted...

Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise
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Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise

Rodney C. Adkins oversees 50,000 employees and is responsible for $18 billion in revenue as senior vice president and group executive for systems and technology...

Future Tech Jobs: We Need Social Science Graduates
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Future Tech Jobs: We Need Social Science Graduates

With interconnectivity at the heart of the social Web, forward-looking technology companies are now embracing the idea of hiring more social science graduates to...

Camp Preps Teens For Cybersecurity Careers
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Camp Preps Teens For Cybersecurity Careers

The Community College of Baltimore County this month held a five-day cybersecurity camp for teenagers in an effort to get high school students interested in security...

Students Develop Beneficial Smartphone Apps
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Students Develop Beneficial Smartphone Apps

Students and professors at The University of Alabama are working together to develop beneficial smartphone applications, including health related apps for blindness...

Nsf Funds $18.5 Million Effort to Create Mind-Machine Interface
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Nsf Funds $18.5 Million Effort to Create Mind-Machine Interface

The NSF  has announced an $18.5 million grant to establish an Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering based at the University of Washington...

Software Could Help Protect Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases
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Software Could Help Protect Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases

A team of undergraduate computer scientists and their professor at South Dakota State University are building software to protect people in Africa and North America...

Most States Do a Poor Job Preparing Students For Science or Technology Degrees
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Most States Do a Poor Job Preparing Students For Science or Technology Degrees

New rankings show that K-12 schools in most of the 50 states are doing a poor job of preparing students for science and engineering careers. Massachusetts leads...

At Mature Techs, A Young Vibe
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At Mature Techs, A Young Vibe

The largest technology companies, from IBM to Microsoft to Hewlett-Packard, are ramping up efforts to attract the best and brightest at America's top campuses....

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Yes, Researchers Say
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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Yes, Researchers Say

According to Babson College researchers, there is overwhelming evidence that taking two or more core entrepreneurship elective courses positively influenced students'...
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