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Facebook's Sandberg Stirs Debate Among Women in It
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Facebook's Sandberg Stirs Debate Among Women in It

As a method for combating years of declining numbers for women in computer fields, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg argues that women need to be...

'cool' Factor Key to Inspiring Future Tech and Engineering Stars
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'cool' Factor Key to Inspiring Future Tech and Engineering Stars

Stanford University president John Hennessy suggests the technology and engineering education  field will need to develop a coolness factor if is to attract the...

10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter
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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.

HHMI Hopes $1M Grants Will Transform Science Education
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HHMI Hopes $1M Grants Will Transform Science Education

 Up to 15 new HHMI professors will receive $1 million over five years to create activities that integrate their research with student learning to enhance undergraduates'...

Internet Pioneers Win Engineering Prize
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Internet Pioneers Win Engineering Prize

Sir Tim Berners Lee, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, and Marc Andreessen will share the £1m award.

Israel Ramps ­p Its Cyberdefense Training
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Israel Ramps ­p Its Cyberdefense Training

Twice a week about 200 Israeli high school students in seven separate locations meet after school for six hours of extra classes.

Model Allows Engineers to Test Fuel Systems on Computers
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Model Allows Engineers to Test Fuel Systems on Computers

Engineers will be able to design better fuel systems for everything from motorcycles to rockets faster and more inexpensively because of a mathematical fuels model...

Sandia Cyber Research Lab Formally Opens in Stressful Times
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Sandia Cyber Research Lab Formally Opens in Stressful Times

The recent spate of major businesses acknowledging their Web sites had been hacked brought an unusual urgency to the formal opening of Sandia's Cyber Engineering...

'war on Talent' Continues For Engineers in Europe
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'war on Talent' Continues For Engineers in Europe

A low graduation rate and aging workforce are causing a "severe" shortage of technical professionals throughout Europe.

Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning
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Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning

Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain.

Google's Android Chief Andy Rubin to Step Aside
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Google's Android Chief Andy Rubin to Step Aside

In a significant changing of the guard, Google said Wednesday that Android chief Andy Rubin, who built the company's phenomenally successful mobile software business...

High-Tech Designs Vie to Replace Nyc's Payphones
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High-Tech Designs Vie to Replace Nyc's Payphones


Netflix Offers $100,000 in Prizes to Advance Cloud Computing
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Netflix Offers $100,000 in Prizes to Advance Cloud Computing

Netflix Inc. has announced the Netflix Cloud Prize, a competition that will award $100,000 in prize money to developers challenged to make cloud computing better...

Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border
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Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border

From a distance, it looked like Wyatt Nease was using a handset to operate a remote control car.

Controlling Your Computer With a Wave of Your Hand
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Controlling Your Computer With a Wave of Your Hand

If you've had wrist and shoulder pain from clicking a mouse, relief may be in sight.

­.s. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (for Work, They Swear)
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­.s. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (for Work, They Swear)

Alternate-reality games are no longer just for geeks and corporations that want to sell you stuff.

Computer Science Enrollments Soared Last Year, Rising 30%
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Computer Science Enrollments Soared Last Year, Rising 30%

The number of new undergraduate computing majors in U.S. computer science departments increased more than 29 percent in 2012, marking the fifth straight year of...

Which Tech Degrees Pay the Most From Day One?
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Which Tech Degrees Pay the Most From Day One?

Asked about industry demand for their graduates, colleges and professors from various technology disciplines said that more job opportunities and higher starting...

A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists
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A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists

During lunch hour, the hallways of Ossining High School have a kind of barely contained chaos.

Pushing X-Rays to the Edge to Draw the Nanoworld Into Focus
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Pushing X-Rays to the Edge to Draw the Nanoworld Into Focus

A new x-ray imaging technique yields unprecedented measurements of nanoscale structures ranging from superconductors to solar cells.
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