Lecturer or Professor of the Practice - University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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The Era of Deep Archiving Begins
As a Dartmouth student in the early 1970s, William McDonough went, somewhat casually, to hear a lecture by a visiting celebrity. Mr. McDonough had little idea beforehand...
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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...
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Connecting the Neural Dots
In setting the nation on a course to map the active human brain, President Obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than ending the war in Afghanistan...
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After M.t.a. Setbacks, No-Swipe Fare Cards Are Still Stuck in the Future
For nearly 50 years, coins were the currency in New York’s subway and bus system. Tokens carried the next 40 years, until the MetroCard first slid into riders’...
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In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On
Japan is renowned for its robots and bullet trains, and has some of the world's fastest broadband networks. But it also remains firmly wedded to a pre-Internet...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Amazon Drives Seattle Office Market Surge
If the strength of Seattle’s office market could be chalked up to one company, it would be Amazon.
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Google Gains From Creating Apps For the Opposition
For many people, smartphone shopping comes down to a choice of Apple's iPhone or one powered by Google's Android software.
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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...
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Ben Horowitz on the Impact of Software Everywhere
Ben Horowitz may have the skeleton key to the decimation—sorry, transformation—of our economic and political lives.
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Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export
To the delight of American satellite makers, communications satellites—which orbit Earth to relay phone calls, link ships to shore and broadcast television programs—will...
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Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.
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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...
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E-Reader Market Shrinks Faster Than Many Predicted
Nearly three years after the first iPad was introduced, the tablet has come a long way. Now there are plenty of smaller, cheaper tablets that are pretty powerful...
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Billion-Dollar Flop: Air Force Stumbles on Software Plan
In policy circles, problems that are mind-bogglingly difficult or impossible to solve, like global warming, are formally termed "wicked."
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College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...
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At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years
Flakes of green paint are peeling from the third-floor windowsills.
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