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Recruiting Tech Talent in High School
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Recruiting Tech Talent in High School

Desperate to attract tech-savvy workers, one company is turning to an unlikely talent source: high school.

Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac
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Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac

Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware...

The Google Formula For Success
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The Google Formula For Success

Can Google’s winning ways be applied to all kinds of businesses?

Professor Looks at History of Discrimination Against Women in Engineering
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Professor Looks at History of Discrimination Against Women in Engineering

Iowa State University Associate Professor Amy Bix looks at the obstacles women have faced to gain acceptance in engineering programs.

Computer Science Is Where the Jobs Are, But Schools Don't Teach It
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Computer Science Is Where the Jobs Are, But Schools Don't Teach It

California prides itself as being home to Silicon Valley, but the state's high schools are not doing enough to prepare students for careers in computing, says...

The Algorithm that Can Make Fantasy Football Even More Fun
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The Algorithm that Can Make Fantasy Football Even More Fun

Like many guys from age 13–65, I suffer from LTAMFFT Syndrome.

Chinese Science Gets Mass Transformation
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Chinese Science Gets Mass Transformation

Change is coming to the institute that has been at the heart of China's scientific development since the communist state began.

Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality
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Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality

Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...

Silicon Valley Talent Wars: Engineers, Come Get Your $250k Salary
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Silicon Valley Talent Wars: Engineers, Come Get Your $250k Salary

In Silicon Valley, even the smallest team of talented engineers can hit the jackpot.

Diversifying the Academic Workforce
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Diversifying the Academic Workforce

The University of Delaware has been awarded $3.3 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a program that will serve as a national model for...

The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
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The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents

During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...

MIT Invents a Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into a Single Experience
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MIT Invents a Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into a Single Experience

When we need to send a command or a file from our smartphone to our laptop, we do it through menus.

College Students Learning Cobol Make More Money
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College Students Learning Cobol Make More Money

Yes, you read the title of this column correctly.

Computer Scientists Launch Kickstarter For Video Game That Teaches Kids How to Code
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Computer Scientists Launch Kickstarter For Video Game That Teaches Kids How to Code

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are developing a new and improved version of CodeSpells, a first-person player game that teaches users how...

Korea ­ps Its Robots Game
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Korea ­ps Its Robots Game

In 1976 an animated film called Robot Taekwon V captured Korean kids' imaginations with its tale of a superhero robot fending off giant machines bent on world domination...

Cs50 Logs Record-Breaking Enrollment Numbers
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Cs50 Logs Record-Breaking Enrollment Numbers

Nearly 12 percent of Harvard College is enrolled in a single course, according to data released by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar’s Office on Wednesday...

Looking to Lead: Usd Adds Eight Female STEM Professors
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Looking to Lead: Usd Adds Eight Female STEM Professors

The University of San Diego has hired eight new female STEM professors as part of an effort to become a model for undergraduate institutions striving to increase...

So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?
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So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?

A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...

Virtual Classroom Links Campuses on Three Continents
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Virtual Classroom Links Campuses on Three Continents

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is using a virtual classroom to bring its facilities in Chicago, Hong Kong, and London closer together in a...

German-Style Training For American Factory Workers
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German-Style Training For American Factory Workers

German robotics company Festo AG wants to make American factory workers more tech-savvy.
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