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The Truth About Tech Company Perks
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The Truth About Tech Company Perks

If you cant write code, should you get free lunch?

­.S. Student Team Wins International Data Mining Competition
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­.S. Student Team Wins International Data Mining Competition

A team of Iowa State University graduate students topped 98 other universities from 28 countries to capture first place in the 15th annual Data Mining Cup.

The Trouble With Brain Science
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The Trouble With Brain Science

Are we ever going to figure out how the brain works?

Most With College STEM Degrees Go to Work in Other Fields, Survey Finds
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Most With College STEM Degrees Go to Work in Other Fields, Survey Finds

Students who graduate with a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are more likely than other graduates to be employed, but also...

B-Schools Finally Acknowledge: Companies Want Mbas Who Can Code
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B-Schools Finally Acknowledge: Companies Want Mbas Who Can Code

Companies want to hire technically skilled MBAs, and business schools are finally starting to get it.

Digital Warriors Battle to Get African Games on Phones
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Digital Warriors Battle to Get African Games on Phones

Safari the warrior crouches in the bush - a digitized heroine from the new mobile phone game "Afro Fighters" that its Nigerian creator hopes will soon rival the...

Backlash Stirs in ­S Against Foreign Worker Visas
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Backlash Stirs in ­S Against Foreign Worker Visas

Kelly Parker was thrilled when she landed her dream job in 2012 providing tech support for Harley-Davidson's Tomahawk, Wisconsin, plants.

Stop Complaining About the Facebook Study. It's a Golden Age For Research
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Stop Complaining About the Facebook Study. It's a Golden Age For Research

Several years ago, my student and I studied anonymous email server data from 40,000 students, faculty and staff at a large university.

Inside the Democratic Party's Hogwarts For Digital Wizardry
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Inside the Democratic Party's Hogwarts For Digital Wizardry


Billy Beane on the Future of Sports: A Tech-Driven Revolution
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Billy Beane on the Future of Sports: A Tech-Driven Revolution

Baseball—my passion and profession for three decades—has been at the forefront of the analytics revolution sweeping through sports.

Here's What the Leaders of Tech Told Graduates in 2014
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Here's What the Leaders of Tech Told Graduates in 2014

Graduates around the world gather at the end of spring for one final lesson: the commencement speech.

An Argument That the Shortage of Cyber Workers Is a Problem That Will Solve Itself
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An Argument That the Shortage of Cyber Workers Is a Problem That Will Solve Itself

Talk to any talent professional in the Washington region and they'll tell you cybersecurity jobs are among the most difficult for them to fill.

Searching For Answers in Very Old Dna
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Searching For Answers in Very Old Dna

As he puts it in the subtitle of his memoir, "Neanderthal Man," Svante Paabo goes in search of lost genomes.

What's Your Science Degree Worth?
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What's Your Science Degree Worth?

Over their lifetimes, graduates with majors in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can expect an earnings premium of $1.5 million over and...

Wearable Computing Gloves Can Teach Braille, Even if You're Not Paying Attention
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Wearable Computing Gloves Can Teach Braille, Even if You're Not Paying Attention

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers used a technology-enhanced glove to help people learn how to read and write Braille, even if they weren't paying attention...

Coder's High
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Coder's High

These days I write more than I code, but one of the things I miss about programming is the coder's high: those times when, for hours on end, I would lock my vision...

Microsoft Fellow David Steurer Seeks ­ltimate Algorithm
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Microsoft Fellow David Steurer Seeks ­ltimate Algorithm

David Steurer of Cornell University has been awarded a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship to support research which might settle a long-standing controversy...

Is China a Scientific Powerhouse?
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Is China a Scientific Powerhouse?

China has vastly expanded higher education over the past three decades—in 1982, less than 1 percent of China’s twenty-somethings had attended college; by 2010,...

Turn Detroit Into Drone Valley
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Turn Detroit Into Drone Valley

The popular recipe for creating the "next" Silicon Valley goes something like this:

Is Tony Fadell the Next Steve Jobs or ... the Next Larry Page?
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Is Tony Fadell the Next Steve Jobs or ... the Next Larry Page?

In the late 1990s a young entrepreneur named Tony Fadell tried to persuade Stewart Alsop, a journalist who had recently become a venture capitalist, to invest in...
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