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Autm Website to Facilitate Academic/industry Partnerships
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Autm Website to Facilitate Academic/industry Partnerships

The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) plans to launch the AUTM Global Technology Portal, a website to facilitate networking, partnership and...

Defcon Opens Its Doors to Pre-Teen and Teen Hackers
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Defcon Opens Its Doors to Pre-Teen and Teen Hackers

DefCon, the conference where hackers and the people who monitor them get together to trade the latest in hacking and tracking data, had some new attendees: children...

The Best in the ­.s. For Entrepreneurship: How States Rank
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The Best in the ­.s. For Entrepreneurship: How States Rank

New York tops the new State Entrepreneurship Index, a measurement that evaluates the 50 U.S. states' entrepreneurial activity based on their business formation...

Research, Science and Technology Parks Creating High-Wage Jobs
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Research, Science and Technology Parks Creating High-Wage Jobs

Research, science and technology parks are catalysts for job creation. As communities look for ways to create jobs and drive economic growth, many are finding innovation...

Tech Girlz Rule: Microsoft Camps Designed to Draw Young Women Into Field
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Tech Girlz Rule: Microsoft Camps Designed to Draw Young Women Into Field

Microsoft's Fargo, ND campus drew participants from multiple states to a three-day event designed to spark interest and provide role models for the next generation...

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Why Isn't America Innovating Like It ­sed To?

America isn't innovating like it used to. And by "like it used to," I mean the period from after World War II to 1973, when an explosion of new technologies increased...

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At a Hacker Conference, Plenty of Friendly Feds

 Why are the Feds hobnobbing with hackers? Defcon, a convention of computer hackers here, was crawling with federal agents on Friday. They smiled, shook hands,...

Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?
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Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?

It happens every summer. In the weeks after the annual National College Entrance Examination, new high school graduates wait for the list. For years, who gets...

China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower
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China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower

China was probably the world's earliest technological superpower, inventing the plow, the compass, gunpowder, and block printing. Then, science in the Middle...

How ­niversities Will Produce the Next Generation of Ict Stars
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How ­niversities Will Produce the Next Generation of Ict Stars

The dot-com bust of the early 2000s had a devastating effect on the number of students enrolling in college ICT programs. It has taken almost a decade to recover...

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The Master's as the New Bachelor's

William Klein's story may sound familiar to his fellow graduates. After earning his bachelor's in history from the College at Brockport, he found himself living...

The Future of It Will Be Reduced to Three Kinds of Jobs
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The Future of It Will Be Reduced to Three Kinds of Jobs

The IT profession and the IT job market are in the midst of seismic changes that are going to shift the focus to three types of jobs: Consultants, Project managers...

Piezoelectric Nanowires Create New Form of Memory
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Piezoelectric Nanowires Create New Form of Memory

Taking advantage of the unique properties of zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have demonstrated a new type of piezoelectric resistive switching device in which...

City Students Discover Love of Science
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City Students Discover Love of Science

A 10-year retrospective study has validated Project Exploration's personalized, out-of-school time approach to science education for urban teenagers.

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted...

Cio Career Killer: Lack of Influence
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Cio Career Killer: Lack of Influence

Many IT leaders find themselves marginalized within their own organizations. The reason is because they lack the influence they need with their peers, stakeholders...

App Developers, Systems Analysts Top Most-Demanded IT Jobs: Monster
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App Developers, Systems Analysts Top Most-Demanded IT Jobs: Monster

What IT skill sets are most in demand? Recent data from jobs Website Monster.com shows the occupations in greatest demand by employers range from computer systems...

Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle
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Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle

Companies have long used criminal background checks, credit reports and even searches on Google and LinkedIn to probe the previous lives of prospective employees...

Recruiters Outnumber Job-Seekers at Hacker Fair
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Recruiters Outnumber Job-Seekers at Hacker Fair

Tom Sherlock demonstrated his wearable computer. Steven Neff, hemmed in by a scrum of recruiters from Google, Rackspace and Pulse News, showed off his art-filled...

Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise
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Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise

Rodney C. Adkins oversees 50,000 employees and is responsible for $18 billion in revenue as senior vice president and group executive for systems and technology...
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