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Don't Tell Teenager Shachi Kakkar That Chip Verification Is For Nerds
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Don't Tell Teenager Shachi Kakkar That Chip Verification Is For Nerds

Anybody who's 17, or ever been 17, knows that any suggestions your parents make are nothing but lame. But every now and then, one of those lame ideas turns into...

Breaking Tech's Code
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Breaking Tech's Code

In New York City, new introductory programming courses that lead to immediate job opportunities — even for candidates with no previous experience — are helping...

Can the App Economy Cure Dismal Job Numbers?
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Can the App Economy Cure Dismal Job Numbers?

"This is shameless, really," said Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., on Wednesday, as she held out her iPad, showing high-resolution photo of her infant grandson to...

Collaborative STEM Programs at Rutgers-Camden Produce New Opportunities and Friendships
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Collaborative STEM Programs at Rutgers-Camden Produce New Opportunities and Friendships

STEM students at Rutgers University-Camden have access to scholarship and academic support thanks to a $600,000 U.S. NSF grant that aims to support high-achieving...

Stanford Announces 16 Online Courses For Fall Quarter
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Stanford Announces 16 Online Courses For Fall Quarter

Stanford University launched 16 new online courses and two new home-grown platforms for interactive learning this fall. Stanford's new online courses cover topics...

Stop Computer Prodigies Before They Hack
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Stop Computer Prodigies Before They Hack

Some U.S. government programs aim to teach kids the wrongness of hacking so they will be less likely to use their computing skills malevolently.

Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks
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Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks

On a dusk-lit beach on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, four miles from the northwesternmost point of the continental U.S., a man dressed in a mad scientist's white...

Intel Seeks Software Experts in Growing Windows Tablet Push
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Intel Seeks Software Experts in Growing Windows Tablet Push

Top chipmaker Intel Corp is recruiting for a new software team focused on tablets, according to a new job ad, underscoring the top chipmaker's efforts to expand...

Estonia Reprograms First Graders as Web Coders
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Estonia Reprograms First Graders as Web Coders

Public schools in Estonia will soon have a curriculum for teaching web and mobile application development to students as early as first grade.

Should the Boss Learn to Code?
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Should the Boss Learn to Code?

Learning to write code has become something of a trendy thing to do. But is it necessary? Among European entrepreneurs polled by The Wall Street Journal, the answer...

Key Skills Pay Off in Fast-Evolving World of Mobile App Development
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Key Skills Pay Off in Fast-Evolving World of Mobile App Development

As demand for mobile app developers continues to increase, some universities are beginning to offer the type of basic training that is essential to a career in...

Using YouTube to Assess and Supplement Online Learning
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Using YouTube to Assess and Supplement Online Learning

As online learning steadily becomes the norm, it is important that more educators are aware of the tools they can incorporate into their classrooms — such as Skype...

The Joys of ­rban Tech
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The Joys of ­rban Tech

For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley, North Carolina's...

One-of-a-Kind Smartphone Lab Takes Shape at ­b
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One-of-a-Kind Smartphone Lab Takes Shape at ­b

University at Buffalo researchers are enlisting hundreds of students to build an unprecedented smartphone network that will provide scientists with ready access...

New Program Joins Computer Science and Design Experts at ­W, Tsinghua ­niversity
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New Program Joins Computer Science and Design Experts at ­W, Tsinghua ­niversity

Computer science, HCI, and design students from the University of Washington and Beijing's Tsinghua University collaborated this summer developing ways that technology...

Foundation Funding Sustains Arxiv Scientific Repository
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Foundation Funding Sustains Arxiv Scientific Repository

arXiv, the free repository that has revolutionized the way scientists share information, is adopting a new governance and business model that will allow it to...

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Tech Industry to Republicans, Democrats: Tech Jobs Are Everywhere (Not Just in Silicon Valley)

A new report from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute revealed that tech jobs are hot, they're getting hotter, and they're not just in Silicon Valley … or Silicon...

Education Leaders See MOOCs, Distance Learning as the Future of Higher Ed
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Education Leaders See MOOCs, Distance Learning as the Future of Higher Ed

Sixty percent of respondents to a survey conducted for an Elon University School of Communications project said the Internet is bringing great change to higher...

Gender Gap in IT Labor Market Remains Wide: Survey
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Gender Gap in IT Labor Market Remains Wide: Survey

Thirty-five percent of 2,400 information technology managers worldwide claim to have no women in IT management roles in their organization, and 24 percent have...

Visual Programming Means Anyone Can Be a Coder
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Visual Programming Means Anyone Can Be a Coder

Many great ideas start out as scribbles on scraps of paper, as thinking visually is an intuitive way to grapple with abstract concepts. Part of the reason is the...
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