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Stanford Class Aims to Seed a Reserve Officers Training Corps for Techies
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Stanford Class Aims to Seed a Reserve Officers Training Corps for Techies

On Tuesday, I listened to eight teams of Stanford students present their solutions to current national security problems on the final day of H4D: Hacking for Defense...

Linux at 25: Q&a With Linus Torvalds
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Linux at 25: Q&a With Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds created the original core of the Linux operating system in 1991 as a computer science student at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

Despite Its Status as a Chip Powerhouse, Taiwan Neglects Supercomputing
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Despite Its Status as a Chip Powerhouse, Taiwan Neglects Supercomputing

A quick glance at the new ranking of top supercomputers gives a surprising showing by one of the world’s technological powerhouses.

Immigrants Have a Growing Role in the ­.S. Sci-Tech Workforce
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Immigrants Have a Growing Role in the ­.S. Sci-Tech Workforce

Immigrants accounted for 18 percent of U.S. scientists and engineers in 2013, up from 16 percent in 2003, according to a U.S. National Science Foundation report...

Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts

The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.

Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
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Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing

In September 1976, in the midst of the Cold War, Victor Ivanovich Belenko, a disgruntled Soviet pilot, veered off course from a training flight over Siberia in...

Samsung Aims to Recruit Best of South Korea's Military
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Samsung Aims to Recruit Best of South Korea's Military

When Israel founded the Talpiot program to give the Israel Defense Forces a technological edge, it spawned new classes of tech-savvy warriors who went on to build...

The Highs and Hazards of Bitcoin
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The Highs and Hazards of Bitcoin

Bitcoin, the leading online alternative currency, has attracted high-minded entrepreneurs and crooks alike.

The STEM Crisis Is a Myth
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The STEM Crisis Is a Myth

You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can't find enough workers in those fields...

Asia-Pacific Is Open For Business, and Tech Jobs
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Asia-Pacific Is Open For Business, and Tech Jobs

All is well in the tech job market in the Asia-Pacific if you're an computer or software engineer, computer scientist, IT professional, or electronics engineer...

'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.

The Job Market of 2045
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The Job Market of 2045

Rice University professor Moshe Vardi predicts that by 2045 artificial intelligence machines will be able to perform a significant percentage of human work. "We...

Top Tech 2013
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Top Tech 2013

IEEE Spectrum looks at technology initiatives that will make news in the coming year.

Economic Strains Don't Crimp Tech Job Opportunities in Asia-Pacific
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Economic Strains Don't Crimp Tech Job Opportunities in Asia-Pacific

There is a healthy demand for engineers and information technology specialists in the Asia-Pacific region, increasingly the result of companies expanding their...

Competition Heats ­p To Fill European Tech Jobs
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Competition Heats ­p To Fill European Tech Jobs

Europe's stagnant economy is having little effect on demand for qualified engineers information technology specialists.

Jobs For Ees and Its in the Asia-Pacific Region
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Jobs For Ees and Its in the Asia-Pacific Region

There is no shortage of jobs for EEs and IT professionals in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Dream Jobs 2010

Some careers proceed evenly down a neat path. Those aren't necessarily, however, the kind of journeys that lead to dream jobs. The ten technologists in this year's...

Saudi Arabia's New Technology ­niversity Opens Its Doors
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Saudi Arabia's New Technology ­niversity Opens Its Doors

On an afternoon in late July, Tony Eastham sat in a half-built office outside Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. Outside, the whines and growls of construction heralded the...
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