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Computer Experts Join the Battle Against Moths Invading Britain
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Computer Experts Join the Battle Against Moths Invading Britain

Computer experts have been called in to help Britain win an increasingly desperate battle against an invading army of clothes-eating moths.

Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World
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Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World

Stanford University is introducing five free online classes in March as the next step in a university initiative to use new technologies to improve education....

Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says
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Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says

Cloud computing technologies will help create nearly 14 million technology-related jobs worldwide by 2015, resulting in $1.1 trillion in revenue annually, according...

RPI Student Aims To Improve Efficiency of Power Grids
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RPI Student Aims To Improve Efficiency of Power Grids

Zepu Wang has developed a new advanced material to coat electrical components and allow the transmission of higher voltages across power infrastructures. The material...

IT Jobs on the Rise
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IT Jobs on the Rise

As growth returns to the world economy, outsourcing returned to favor in 2011 and will continue to post gains in 2012 as well, according to a report by Morrison...

App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students
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App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students

An app created by a Vanderbilt graduate student converts an Android tablet computer into a powerful tool for teaching math to visually impaired students.

Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market
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Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market

Perched atop Berkeley's tallest building, the Berkeley Skydeck is a UC Berkeley campus-community partnership that could change the way emerging companies scale...

Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says
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Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says

In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...

How To Kill Patent Trolls
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How To Kill Patent Trolls

Firms that collect and enforce patents of dubious value—with no intention of creating the invention described in those patents—are the scourge of innovators everywhere...

In Space and on Earth, Why Build It, When a Robot Can Build It For You?
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In Space and on Earth, Why Build It, When a Robot Can Build It For You?

Like something out of "Star Wars," armies of robots could nimbly crawl up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don’t have...

Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language
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Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language

Google's easy. It helps you find stuff. Facebook—duh—lets you connect with friends. Even Intel's a no-brainer—they make those little pieces of whatever inside your...

Engineering the Next Generation of STEM
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Engineering the Next Generation of STEM

Industry participants, reacting to the so-called engineering crisis, are doing what they can to foster science, technology, engineering, and math talent and encourage...

Google Web Grows in City
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Google Web Grows in City

Google Inc. has dramatically expanded its presence in Manhattan in the past year, adding roughly 750 people to its outpost in 2011 in the most prominent example...

British Companies Bypass Immigration Cap on Skilled Migrants
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British Companies Bypass Immigration Cap on Skilled Migrants

Overseas staff coming to U.K. under "intra-company transfer" scheme surged to 29,700 last year, Home Office figures show.

Anita Borg Institute Announces 2012 Women of Vision Award Winners
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Anita Borg Institute Announces 2012 Women of Vision Award Winners

Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology has announced the winners of the 2012 Women of Vision Awards recognizing outstanding achievements in innovation, leadership...

Campaign Calls For New Teacher-Training 'infrastructure'
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Campaign Calls For New Teacher-Training 'infrastructure'

Leading education and industry groups have signed a letter asking George Osborne to fund new computer training for teachers.

International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
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International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

Some of science's most powerful statements are not made in words. The next competition opens May 31, 2012.

Stress and Burnout Common in Info Security Field
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Stress and Burnout Common in Info Security Field

IT security professionals are experiencing extreme levels of stress and burnout, but they have few places to turn for help.

Educators, Innovators Call For Earlier Introduction to Computer Science
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Educators, Innovators Call For Earlier Introduction to Computer Science

Producing computer scientists and engineers to fill the demand from domestic companies should be a national priority, says Jeannette Wing, head of the computer...

Social Media in 2012 Elections Will Make 2008 Look Like the Digital Dark Ages
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Social Media in 2012 Elections Will Make 2008 Look Like the Digital Dark Ages

Forget all the jibber-jabber in this presidential campaign about policy and strategy. The highlight for me of this election cycle came when the Obama campaign released...
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