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Leadership of Cyber Warriors

Leadership is a core competency of the officers, warrant officers, and non-commissioned officers across the military services. A principle tenant of leadership...

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...

Fears Rise in It Circles Over New Economic Downturn
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Fears Rise in It Circles Over New Economic Downturn

After months of gains, there are new worries that the U.S. economic recovery is in trouble. "There is a palpable sense of a slowdown or less of a recovery over...

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...

Xbox Kinect Helps Surgeons in the Operating Room
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Xbox Kinect Helps Surgeons in the Operating Room

Doctors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Canada are using the Xbox Kinect to examine and manipulate CT  images during surgery, sidestepping the need to...

Nsf Project Will Digitize ­.s.'s Biological Collections
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Nsf Project Will Digitize ­.s.'s Biological Collections

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to Florida State University and the University of Florida to coordinate 92 institutions...

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...

Professor Tweets Her Way to Knighthood
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Professor Tweets Her Way to Knighthood

The creative use of Twitter and other technology to teach and promote French has earned University of South Carolina Professor Lara Lomicka Anderson knighthood...

You Want to Talk 'horrible Bosses'?
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You Want to Talk 'horrible Bosses'?

Virtually anyone who stays in the work force long enough will eventually have a really lousy boss. Millions of Americans have tense relationships with their managers...

Attachment to Cellphones More About Entertainment, Less About Communication
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Attachment to Cellphones More About Entertainment, Less About Communication

That panicked feeling you get when the family pet goes missing is the same when you misplace your mobile phone, says a Kansas State University marketing professor...

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'...

Overseas Tech Firms Ramp ­p Hiring in Silicon Valley
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Overseas Tech Firms Ramp ­p Hiring in Silicon Valley

European and Asian companies are increasingly using high-tech workers from Silicon Valley to conduct long-range research and help design new products for global...

How Are Students Learning Programming in a Post-Basic World?
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How Are Students Learning Programming in a Post-Basic World?

Since the Basic programming language has faded into obscurity, there is no single lingua franca across the entire PC user community to function as a default starter...

Engaging Students' Interest Early Promotes Pursuit of STEM Careers
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Engaging Students' Interest Early Promotes Pursuit of STEM Careers

A new study published in the journal Science Education finds that sparking students' interest in science at an early age is more effective at steering them toward...

Flexible Schedule Is Key to Keeping Working Moms on the Job
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Flexible Schedule Is Key to Keeping Working Moms on the Job

Women who return to work after giving birth are more likely to stay on the job if they have greater control over their work schedules, according to a Baylor University...

The Multiplayer Classroom
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The Multiplayer Classroom

With a fresh perspective on education, Rensselaer Professor Lee Sheldon's new book details how to pattern a classroom after a multiplayer video game.

Computer Models Will Help Prevent Wildfires
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Computer Models Will Help Prevent Wildfires

With an eye on preventing wildfires, the U.S. National Science Foundation is supporting the SDFireSight project's development of a technical framework and computer...

Computation Aids Award-Winning Architect's Exploration of Innovation
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Computation Aids Award-Winning Architect's Exploration of Innovation

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Lonn Combs, winner of the 2011 Rome Prize, will study the work of Pier Luigi Nervi and how it might have varied if he...
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