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Learning to Think Like a Computer
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Learning to Think Like a Computer

In "The Beauty and Joy of Computing," the course he helped conceive for nonmajors at the University of California, Berkeley, Daniel Garcia explains an all-important...

Here Are the Software Skills That Will Get You the Highest Salary
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Here Are the Software Skills That Will Get You the Highest Salary

What tech skills will earn software engineers and other technology professionals the highest salaries?

Trump Cracks Down on H-1b Visa Program That Feeds Silicon Valley
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Trump Cracks Down on H-1b Visa Program That Feeds Silicon Valley

The U.S. administration began to deliver on President Donald Trump's campaign promise to crack down on a work visa program that channels thousands of skilled overseas...

Open-Source Software Unlocks 3-D View of Nanomaterials
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Open-Source Software Unlocks 3-D View of Nanomaterials

The Tomviz open-source software platform makes it possible for researchers to see and share 3-D images from electron tomography data.

Materials May Lead to Self-Healing Smartphones
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Materials May Lead to Self-Healing Smartphones

Researchers have developed a self-healing polymeric material with an eye toward electronics and soft robotics that can repair themselves.

Tim Berners-Lee Wins $1 Million Turing Award
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Tim Berners-Lee Wins $1 Million Turing Award

MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee has won the ACM A.M. Turing Award for inventing the World Wide Web and developing the protocols that spurred its global use.

Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1b Visas
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Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1b Visas

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services quietly over the weekend released new guidance that computer programmers are no longer presumed to be eligible for H-1B...

Technology Meets Fashion in ­a Collaboration
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Technology Meets Fashion in ­a Collaboration

Unlikely collaborators at the  University of Alabama have created a 3-D projection screen shaped like a giant shoe, and constructed entirely out of shoe boxes. ...

Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming
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Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming

Travel just a few miles west of bustling Cheyenne, Wyoming, a you'll find yourself in big-sky country.

Silicon Valley's Spooked By Trump and Mexico Sees an Opportunity
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Silicon Valley's Spooked By Trump and Mexico Sees an Opportunity

There's a tech-loving governor in Mexico who sees opportunity in the hassles the Trump administration might create for companies eager to hire foreign engineers...

Researchers Work to Narrow the Gender Gap in Engineering, Computer Science
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Researchers Work to Narrow the Gender Gap in Engineering, Computer Science

Two Florida State University researchers are determined to chip away at the vast and enduring gender disparity in STEM fields.

Vector Institute Is Just the Latest in Canada's AI Expansion
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Vector Institute Is Just the Latest in Canada's AI Expansion

Canadian researchers have been behind some recent major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Now, the country is betting on becoming a big player in one of...

Visualizing Scientific Big Data in Informative and Interactive Ways
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Visualizing Scientific Big Data in Informative and Interactive Ways

Brookhaven Lab computer scientist Wei Xu develops visualization tools for analyzing large and varied datasets.

Computer-Analyzed Geological Database Reveals Chemistry of Ancient Ocean
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Computer-Analyzed Geological Database Reveals Chemistry of Ancient Ocean

A study that used a new digital library and machine reading system to suck the factual marrow from millions of geologic publications dating back decades has unraveled...

Investors Bet on a Quiet Tech Revolution in Europe
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Investors Bet on a Quiet Tech Revolution in Europe

It's not banking or mining shares, but rather technology stocks, that have come up trumps in Europe this year and are poised to end the first quarter as the best...

Software Supports Explorations Into the Intramolecular Picoworld
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Software Supports Explorations Into the Intramolecular Picoworld

A recent upgrade to data acquisition and visualization software more than 20 years in the making enhances scientists' ability to observe and control individual...

Making America's Power Grid Much, Much Smarter
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Making America's Power Grid Much, Much Smarter

Microgrids could help the U.S. power grid quickly respond to and quarantine problems to prevent huge outages.

Products Can Be Pals When You're Lonely, But It May Cost You, Study Finds
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Products Can Be Pals When You're Lonely, But It May Cost You, Study Finds

A new study says that humanlike technology products keep people from seeking out normal human interaction, adding that such products have limited social utility...

Machines and the Modern-Day Labor Market
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Machines and the Modern-Day Labor Market

A new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business' Michael Gibbs discusses how the prevalence of automated machines impacts jobs, employee value...

I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into
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I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into

Chia-Chiunn Ho was eating lunch inside Facebook headquarters, at the Full Circle Cafe, when he saw the notice on his phone: Larry Zitnick, one of the leading figures...
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