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Stevens Launches Effort to Recruit More Women to Key Majors
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Stevens Launches Effort to Recruit More Women to Key Majors

Stevens Institute of Technology is partnering with an initiative of the NCWIT to implement a new strategic plan for recruiting more women into the fields of computer...

Startup Focuses on Efficient Cooling For Computer Servers
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Startup Focuses on Efficient Cooling For Computer Servers

  Timothy Shedd of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has invented a computer cooling system that is roughly 10 times more efficient than the air-conditioning...

Spinoffs from Spyland
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Spinoffs from Spyland

It takes more than a little tradecraft to spin off a startup from the National Security Agency.

How to Get Into the Games Industry–An Insiders' Guide
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How to Get Into the Games Industry–An Insiders' Guide

At this year's Bafta video game awards, one of the most telling moments was when Dr Who producer Steven Moffat took to the stage and declared "[Games] are going...

Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock
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Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock

Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the...

The Cleveland Cavaliers' New 3-D Floor Projection System Is Astonishing
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The Cleveland Cavaliers' New 3-D Floor Projection System Is Astonishing

The Cleveland Cavaliers are having a rocky season—currently, they're on the outside looking in at an Eastern Conference playoff berth.

With Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus, a Virtual Battleground May Finally Be Here
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With Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus, a Virtual Battleground May Finally Be Here

Virtual reality has never quite materialized for most consumers.

Tiny Transistors For Extreme Environs
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Tiny Transistors For Extreme Environs

University of Utah electrical engineers fabricated smaller plasma transistors that can withstand the high temperatures and ionizing radiation found in a nuclear...

Computer Scientist Makes a Power Play
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Computer Scientist Makes a Power Play

A Binghamton University researcher aims to slash the energy used by computing systems ranging from smart phones to data centers.

Tweets Can Help Track National Health Trends — and Local Ones, Too
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Tweets Can Help Track National Health Trends — and Local Ones, Too

A new study by a team from Johns Hopkins and George Washington universities probed flu-related tweets from New York City and concluded that Twitter data can accurately...

Three Questions For Leslie Lamport, Winner of Computing's Top Prize
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Three Questions For Leslie Lamport, Winner of Computing's Top Prize

This year's winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced yesterday as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research...

Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow
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Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow

We use Jonathan Ive's products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex.

Ticket Pricing Puts 'lion King' Atop Broadway's Circle of Life
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Ticket Pricing Puts 'lion King' Atop Broadway's Circle of Life

How did "The Lion King" turn around its once-shaky fortunes and become the top-grossing show on Broadway in 2013, an unprecedented feat for long-running musicals...

Can This Online Course Get Me a Job?
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Can This Online Course Get Me a Job?

New efforts are underway to help students make sense of the array of online courses, degrees, and certification options. For example, the Balloon online tool...

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Why Google Doesn't Have a Research Lab

Research vice presidents at some computing giants, such as Microsoft and IBM, rule over divisions housed in dedicated facilities carefully insulated from the rat...

Japan Holds First Broad Cybersecurity Drill
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Japan Holds First Broad Cybersecurity Drill

Japan faced a full-on cyber attack across government departments on Tuesday in a drill aimed at bolstering national security as the country gears up to host the...

The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot

Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.

Harnessing Everyday Motion to Power Mobile Devices
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Harnessing Everyday Motion to Power Mobile Devices

A team at Georgia Tech has increased the power output of a triboelectric nanogenerator and is now looking to commercialize the technology in products that could...

­.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost
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­.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost

The uncertainties surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s disappearance are enormous, but naval strategists have been unraveling lost-at-sea mysteries as far...

Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing

MIT researchers have developed a self-contained autonomous soft robotic "fish" that can convulse its body to change direction in just a fraction of a second, almost...
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