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The Robots Are Coming! Better Get Used to It
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The Robots Are Coming! Better Get Used to It

For those of you reluctant to welcome our new robot overloads, it might be time to reconsider your stance.

Apple Widens Its Lead in Survey of App Developers
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Apple Widens Its Lead in Survey of App Developers

Apple has cemented its dominance as the most popular mobile platform among application developers while Google's Android has receded and Research In Motion's devices...

Sharing Patents With Competitors May Encourage Innovation
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Sharing Patents With Competitors May Encourage Innovation

Firms that make a previously patented innovation accessible to competitors increase overall likelihood of improving upon that breakthrough while also raising profits...

Report Reveals Google's Strong Position vs. Facebook in Mobile App Wars
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Report Reveals Google's Strong Position vs. Facebook in Mobile App Wars

A new Appcelerator/IDC survey shows that mobile developers view Google and its broad range of assets as key to implementing their social strategies in 2012. The...

Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here
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Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here

A recent Computerworld survey of 357 IT professionals found that 46 percent of respondents are noticing a shortage of Cobol programmers, and 50 percent said the...

Examining Why Women Students Abandon Math and Science Majors
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Examining Why Women Students Abandon Math and Science Majors

Roxanne Hughes' recently completed doctoral dissertation identifies a variety of factors that influence female undergraduates as they make a decision about their...

­ltracold Experiments Heat ­p Quantum Research
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­ltracold Experiments Heat ­p Quantum Research

Physicists have experimentally demonstrated that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems of vastly...

Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness
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Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness

Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional...

­spto and Autm Announce Joint Patent Examiners Training Initiative
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­spto and Autm Announce Joint Patent Examiners Training Initiative

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Association of University Technology Managers, a nonprofit organization, have launched a specialized training program...

At Least 1 Woman Should Be Interviewed For Every It Job Opening, Advocacy Group Says
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At Least 1 Woman Should Be Interviewed For Every It Job Opening, Advocacy Group Says

Recruiters for high-tech jobs should make sure there is at least one woman candidate for every job opening in information technology, according to "Solutions to...

Computer System Predicts Kentucky to Win Ncaa Tournament
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Computer System Predicts Kentucky to Win Ncaa Tournament

Georgia Tech's Logistic Regression Markov Chain method has a history of accuracy as a predictor of the men's NCAA basketball tournament. It predicts this year's...

Tech Industry Climbs Out of Silicon Valley, Moves Abroad
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Tech Industry Climbs Out of Silicon Valley, Moves Abroad

Washington, D.C., has replaced Silicon Valley as the locus for technology jobs as non-tech industries continue to add tech professionals, according to Dice.com....

Computer Simulations Help Explain Why HIV Cure Remains Elusive
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Computer Simulations Help Explain Why HIV Cure Remains Elusive

Australian research scientist Jack da Silva used computer simulations to discover that a human immunodeficiency virus, even at an early phase of infection, evolves...

Researcher Aims to Use Social Multimedia For Enhanced Mapping
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Researcher Aims to Use Social Multimedia For Enhanced Mapping

Funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation will support UC Merced Professor Shawn Newsam's work gathering geographic information from user-submitted photos...

Physicists Identify and Suppress Barrier to Faster Graphene Devices
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Physicists Identify and Suppress Barrier to Faster Graphene Devices

A team of physicists from Vanderbilt University report that they have nailed down the source of the interference inhibiting the rapid flow of electrons through...

Cloud Computing to Create 14 Million New Jobs by 2015
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Cloud Computing to Create 14 Million New Jobs by 2015

Spending on public and private IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide from 2011 to 2015 and create $1.1 trillion a year in new business...

How America's Wealthiest Get Rich
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How America's Wealthiest Get Rich

If you follow our World’s Billionaires list, you know there's no single way to get the job done–you can get rich on energy drinks or yoga pants just as well as...

Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus
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Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus

High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck...

Cios Reveal Second-Quarter Hiring Plans
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Cios Reveal Second-Quarter Hiring Plans

U.S. technology executives expect continued IT hiring in the second quarter, albeit at a slower pace than three months ago, according to the latest Robert Half...

Two Computer Scientists to Receive Nsf's Alan T. Waterman Award
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Two Computer Scientists to Receive Nsf's Alan T. Waterman Award

Two computer scientists, Robert Wood of Harvard University and Scott Aaronson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have been named by the National Science...
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