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Online Hiring Tools Are Changing Recruiting Techniques
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Online Hiring Tools Are Changing Recruiting Techniques

It can seem improbable given the still-sluggish monthly unemployment reports, but in some sectors small businesses are desperate to find qualified candidates to...

How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers
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How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers

When the email came out of the blue last summer, offering a shot as a programmer at a San Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card debt...

India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips
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India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips

The government of India, home to many of the world’s leading software outsourcing companies, wants to replicate that success by creating a homegrown industry for...

Building a Better Tech School
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Building a Better Tech School

If all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City...

Scientific Articles Accepted (personal Checks, Too)
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Scientific Articles Accepted (personal Checks, Too)

The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional...

Opening a Gateway For Girls to Enter the Computer Field
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Opening a Gateway For Girls to Enter the Computer Field

Several programs are emerging that encourage girls to learn technology skills that will enable them to enter computer science fields.

Opening a Gateway For Girls to Enter the Computer Field
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Opening a Gateway For Girls to Enter the Computer Field

When Julia Geist was asked to draw a picture of a computer scientist last year, the 16-year-old sketched a businessman wearing glasses and a tie.

Teacher's Vision, but Done New York City's Way
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Teacher's Vision, but Done New York City's Way

At last year's State of the City speech, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the creation of a public high school called the Academy for Software Engineering.

The Child, the Tablet, and the Developing Mind
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The Child, the Tablet, and the Developing Mind

I recently watched my sister perform an act of magic.

A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists
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A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists

During lunch hour, the hallways of Ossining High School have a kind of barely contained chaos.

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Computer Coding: It's Not Just For Boys

At 16, Isabelle Aleksander spends hours writing computer code and plans a career in engineering. Her latest passion is the Raspberry Pi, a low-cost, credit-card...

A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers

Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.

Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View

The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.

Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks to Factory Jobs
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Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks to Factory Jobs

This city of 15 million on the Pearl River is the hub of a manufacturing region where factories make everything from T-shirts and shoes to auto parts, tablet computers...

A New Group Aims to Make Programming Cool
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A New Group Aims to Make Programming Cool

Code.org was founded with the goal of increasing the education of computer science in classrooms and sparking more excitement among students.  

New Cornell Technology School Will Foster Commerce Amid Education
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New Cornell Technology School Will Foster Commerce Amid Education

Their curriculum devotes months to helping a company solve a current technological challenge.

Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates
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Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates

Zhang Xiaoping’s mother dropped out of school after sixth grade. Her father, one of 10 children, never attended.

Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China
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Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China

One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back...

Wallflowers of Silicon Valley Get Asked to Dance
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Wallflowers of Silicon Valley Get Asked to Dance

After years of being wallflowers at Silicon Valley's hottest tech conferences and Sean Parker's after-parties, enterprise technology firms are now part of the "in"...

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I.b.m. and Ohio State ­niversity to Open Center For Big Data

There is plenty of debate about just how much Big Data analytics can help businesses make smarter decisions to increase sales and cut costs. Yet there seems to...
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