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When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...VentureBeat From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012
Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon...Reuters From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
Many universities are reaching out to community colleges to set up programs that encourage science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Inside Higher Ed From ACM TechNews | November 7, 2012
Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and...NASA From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
In 1998, Steve Jobs told Fortune: "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have." He shut down Apple's long-term research lab division to prove...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory last month launched the Titan supercomputer, which will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last...Oak Ridge National Laboratory From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
Allen Calvin earned a doctorate in experimental psychology, was a consulting professor at Stanford University, and is currently the president of Palo Alto University...CNET From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
Despite some concerns earlier this year, it's safe to say that IT employment will finish 2012 well in the black.Computerworld From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
While Google's self-driving car is getting heaps of attention, a lesser-known effort that would employ Silicon Valley technologies to make regular automobiles safer...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | November 7, 2012
Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...Bloomberg From ACM News | November 7, 2012
To build the computer chips of the future, designers will need to understand how an electrical charge behaves when it is confined to metal wires only a few atom...McGill niversity From ACM Careers | November 7, 2012
The most prestigious peer-reviewed journals in the world have less and less influence amongst scientists, according to a paper co-authored by Vincent Larivière,...Universite de Montreal From ACM Careers | November 7, 2012
In 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s then-chief executive Mark Hurd boasted the company was "the largest IT company in the world" and said "we are still not to our full...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | November 7, 2012
U.S. government agencies, universities, and technology companies have contributed tens of millions of dollars to increase the number of female computer scientists...The Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2012
There was the usual talk about the excitement of the startup universe and the thrill of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School's 18th annual Cyberposium on...GigaOm From ACM Careers | November 5, 2012
For a dramatic sign of the strategy reversal under way at General Motors as it moves on from its 2009 bankruptcy, look no further than the IT department.Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 5, 2012
Countries leading in technological advancement have failed to open up their knowledge societies to women, according to a recent report from Women in Global Science...AllAfrica From ACM TechNews | October 31, 2012
European scientists have integrated robotics, video, and various sensor and display technologies to transport someone into a geographically distant meeting room...CORDIS From ACM TechNews | October 31, 2012
MIT professor Erik Demaine is a computer scientist turned artist with expertise in computational origami, the mathematical study of bending and folding. Together...National Science Foundation From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2012
There's a joke running around about social media: Facebook is how you want people to see you, Twitter is how you see yourself; Tumblr is—"Hey look! Funny cat picture...BBC News From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2012