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How to Interest Girls in Computer Science? Shift the Stereotypes
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How to Interest Girls in Computer Science? Shift the Stereotypes

A new study identifies a main culprit for the underrepresentation of women in undergraduate computer science and engineering programs: inaccurate stereotypes depicting...

How to Choose the Form of an Infographic: It's All About Context
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How to Choose the Form of an Infographic: It's All About Context

As a graphics designer, I have a love/hate relationship with circles.

Better How-to Videos
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Better How-to Videos

Educational researchers have developed a system that crowdsources the annotation of instructional videos to increase their value. 

Career Award Winner Tackles Structured Indoor Modeling
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Career Award Winner Tackles Structured Indoor Modeling

Yasutaka Furukawa thinks there's a better way to find your way around a large building than with a printed, one-dimensional map. And he's getting a chance to make...

Washington Lawmakers Want Computer Science to Count as Foreign Language
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Washington Lawmakers Want Computer Science to Count as Foreign Language

Two Washington state legislators have recently introduced a bill that would allow computer science class (e.g., programming) to effectively count as a foreign language...

An Incubator For Innovation
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An Incubator For Innovation

To halt climate change, the world desperately needs advances in clean energy.

Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award By Thinking Small
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Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award By Thinking Small

Bioengineer Robert Langer has spent his career looking for the next not-so-big thing.

Smartphone App Tracks Students' Class Attendance Automatically
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Smartphone App Tracks Students' Class Attendance Automatically

A team of Missouri S&T researchers has developed an app that tracks classroom attendance using a smartphone camera.

Bigger Is Not Better When It Comes to Lab Size
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Bigger Is Not Better When It Comes to Lab Size

To publish the most papers, labs should ideally have 10 to 15 members, according to a much-discussed study in PeerJ PrePrints.

Cyber Security Experts Make Virtual Lab Available For Classrooms, Competitions
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Cyber Security Experts Make Virtual Lab Available For Classrooms, Competitions

With NSF support, Iowa State University is making a version of ISEAGE (the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment) software technology available...

British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors
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British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors

The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...

Andreessen Horowitz Taps Into Thriving World of Programmers
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Andreessen Horowitz Taps Into Thriving World of Programmers

With its recent investment in Stack Exchange, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz now counts three significant companies in its portfolio that serve the broad and...

Programming: Pick ­p Python
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Programming: Pick ­p Python

Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.

One in Five Online Scholarly Articles Affected By 'reference Rot'
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One in Five Online Scholarly Articles Affected By 'reference Rot'

Vanishing web pages make revisiting original references more difficult and undermine the long-term integrity of online scholarly records.

Study Identifies Common Elements of STEM Schools
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Study Identifies Common Elements of STEM Schools

STEM schools vary in many ways, but they share eight major common elements, according to a study of 23 U.S.-based STEM schools conducted by the University of Chicago's...

Microsoft in the Age of Satya Nadella
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Microsoft in the Age of Satya Nadella

On a campus notable for tight security and secret offices, Building 92 is a rare beacon of openness. Guests can enter without a Microsoft ID and browse corporate...

How the Home Telephone Sparked the ­ser-Centered Design Revolution
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How the Home Telephone Sparked the ­ser-Centered Design Revolution

Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door's height, instead of right in the middle? Or why a washing machine is...

Astrobiologist Aims to Make Science Education More Interactive
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Astrobiologist Aims to Make Science Education More Interactive

I remember battling sleepiness as I slouched in a large lecture hall, squinting to make out the writing on the blackboard during my freshman introductory physics...

Telling Stories Using Computer Science
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Telling Stories Using Computer Science

MIT senior Shannon Kao's knack for storytelling informs her research in computer graphics.

10 Cool Network and Computing Research Projects
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10 Cool Network and Computing Research Projects

If you think the latest enterprise and consumer network and computer technologies rolling into your data center and being snuck into your offices by end users are...
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