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Despite Problems, Silicon Valley Still an Innovation Magnet

All it takes is five minutes to compile a lengthy list of reasons not to come to Silicon Valley. The cost of living is off the charts. Traffic stinks. Housing...

Entrepreneurship Lessons for the Academic-Minded
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Entrepreneurship Lessons for the Academic-Minded

The slow pace of job creation has revived interest in getting promising new technologies out of university labs and into the marketplace. At Stanford University...

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Gartner: 10 Key It Trends For 2012

If you had to pick 10 technology-related trends that will affect your enterprise infrastructure in the coming year, Gartner says you'd do well to start with virtualization...

Three Ways to Uncover a Hidden Job
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Three Ways to Uncover a Hidden Job

While most candidates begin their job search online, the majority of the jobs in the United States and other countries are never advertised online. Here are a few...

Teaching Speech Recognition Engines What Humans Already Know: Timing Matters
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Teaching Speech Recognition Engines What Humans Already Know: Timing Matters

Sorting sound into intelligible speech is a seemingly effortless feat. Healthy human ear-brain auditory systems perform it heroically, even in highly confusing...

Advertising Companies Fret Over a Digital Talent Gap
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Advertising Companies Fret Over a Digital Talent Gap

When the Ad:tech advertising technology conference hits New York next week, marketers, advertising agencies and recruiters may spend less time listening to the...

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Inside the Walls: Facebook's New Home

Ever since Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room in 2004, the company has occupied temporary, rented space. Now, for the first...

Work Climate the Top Reason Women Leave Engineering
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Work Climate the Top Reason Women Leave Engineering

Despite successful interventions to increase the numbers of women earning degrees in engineering, the field faces a problem retaining those female engineers. The...

Fixated on What He Fixes
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Fixated on What He Fixes

Peter Guggenheim has worked so long at Stuart Electronics that his feet have worn holes through two layers of tile and an inch of plywood, down to the floorboards...

It Pros in Demand, Though Worker Confidence Low: Technisource
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It Pros in Demand, Though Worker Confidence Low: Technisource

Technisource's IT Employee Confidence Index fell in the third quarter to its lowest level in more than two years. The decline comes as a surprise because the U...

Lack of Confidence as Professionals Spurs Women to Leave Engineering, Study Finds
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Lack of Confidence as Professionals Spurs Women to Leave Engineering, Study Finds

Women who start college aiming to become engineers are more likely than men to change their major and choose another career because they lack confidence, according...

Cybersecurity Mainly Male Domain
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Cybersecurity Mainly Male Domain

While the U.S. government and private sector urgently try to beef up cybersecurity efforts, the IT field that supplies talent remains largely a male domain. At...

­ser Resistance to Password Security Explored
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­ser Resistance to Password Security Explored

Though most organizations have policies and guidelines to protect their information systems from unauthorized access, research has shown that employee compliance...

Your Technology Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life
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Your Technology Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life

From a marketability perspective,  a technology professional's skill set has a two year half-life. That said, there are things that you can do to keep yourself...

Cyber Workshop at Sandia Labs Seeks Potential Responses to Cyberattacks
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Cyber Workshop at Sandia Labs Seeks Potential Responses to Cyberattacks

The difficulties of defending utilities, commerce and national security against cyberattacks, and what to do to change that situation, were major themes of a recent...

Conductive Cotton: Scientists Fashioning Electronic Future For Cotton Fiber
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Conductive Cotton: Scientists Fashioning Electronic Future For Cotton Fiber

The latest breakthrough in cotton fiber research has scientists envisioning hospital gowns that monitor medical patients and jerseys that test athletic performance...

The Gen Y Myth
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The Gen Y Myth

A new study finds that much of the perceived wisdom about Gen Y's attitude and approach to work appears to be wrong. This means that much of what business leaders...

More Demand, Fewer Grads Mean Tech Careers Continue to Boom
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More Demand, Fewer Grads Mean Tech Careers Continue to Boom

Demand for technology professionals continues to rise, as the technology industry remains one of the fastest growing career fields. Broader use of technology across...

A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute
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A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute

The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo, and...

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5 Tech Pros Companies Want to Hire

Network pros, developers, business analysts, data experts, and security specialists in demand.
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