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5 Tips For Aspiring Silicon Valley Engineers
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5 Tips For Aspiring Silicon Valley Engineers

Great software engineers are hard to find, let alone hire and keep.

Confirming the Mooc Myth
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Confirming the Mooc Myth

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are neither transforming education nor yielding large profits, but more time is needed to experiment with various applications...

Old School vs. New School As Academic Publishers Brawl Over Web
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Old School vs. New School As Academic Publishers Brawl Over Web

The competition for prominence in academic publishing heated up this week as a traditional company, Elsevier, tangled with a Digital Era rival, Academia.edu.

"Hour of Code" Calls on Students to Program Computers, With Support From Obama (And the Republicans, Too!)
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"Hour of Code" Calls on Students to Program Computers, With Support From Obama (And the Republicans, Too!)

By now you may have heard about the United States' woeful lack of public coding classes, despite the economy's ever-growing need for technical workers.

Five Online Classes To Pump ­p It Careers
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Five Online Classes To Pump ­p It Careers

An explosion in new online learning opportunities is making it possible for IT professionals to commit to a career of lifelong learning. Better still, many of these...

Inside China's Version of Silicon Valley
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Inside China's Version of Silicon Valley

On the outside, China's answer to Silicon Valley doesn't look the part: It's a crowded mass of electronics malls, fast-food joints and office buildings in northwest...

Collaboration to Leverage Online Technology to Expand Educational Access
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Collaboration to Leverage Online Technology to Expand Educational Access

Davidson College, edX, and the College Board will collaborate to provide Advanced Placement high-school teachers and their students with access to a suite of...

7 Epic Fails Brought to You By the Genius Mind of Thomas Edison
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7 Epic Fails Brought to You By the Genius Mind of Thomas Edison

Almost everyone can name the man that invented the light bulb.

Everything Is Becoming a Branch of Computer Science
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Everything Is Becoming a Branch of Computer Science

Computer science is widening its public appeal as people increasingly realize how it impacts nearly every other field of academic endeavor.

Singularity ­niversity Plots Hi-Tech Future For Humans
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Singularity ­niversity Plots Hi-Tech Future For Humans

Rob Nail walks into the room looking like a Silicon Valley Doctor Who as played by David Tennant—tailored suit, 3D-printed trainers and the Californian twist on...

Tech Boom! The War for Top Developer Talent
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Tech Boom! The War for Top Developer Talent

It isn't everyone who gets to walk through the Oval Office on their way to work.

Study Tracks Attrition Rates For STEM Majors
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Study Tracks Attrition Rates For STEM Majors

About 50 percent of bachelor's degree candidates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) exit the field without completing a college degree, according...

Strategy for Women in STEM
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Strategy for Women in STEM

Women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields might benefit from a project-based curriculum, based on evidence from Worcester Polytechnic...

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Why the ­.s. May Lose the Race to Exascale

In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers—exascale—there is no guarantee the U.S. will finish first.

Women Gain in Some STEM Fields, but Not Computer Science
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Women Gain in Some STEM Fields, but Not Computer Science

A few weeks ago, I wrote about ways to get more women interested in computer science.

Twitter Ipo Makes San Francisco the Sexy New Face of Silicon Valley
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Twitter Ipo Makes San Francisco the Sexy New Face of Silicon Valley

In case you haven't noticed, Silicon Valley has been pulling up some of its roots and moving north.

Israel's Idf Lures Female Recruits For Computer Corps
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Israel's Idf Lures Female Recruits For Computer Corps

In Israel, like most of the world, the universe of computer whizzes and technology entrepreneurs is overwhelmingly male.

Indiana University Offering Online Certificate in Data Science
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Indiana University Offering Online Certificate in Data Science

The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing has announced a new online program in data science.

Google Assists Rowan Computer Science Education Outreach
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Google Assists Rowan Computer Science Education Outreach

With funding from Google, Rowan University computer science professor Jennifer Kay will develop curricula for middle and high school educators that will help them...

Sdsc ­ses Raspberry Pi Cluster to Teach Parallel Computing
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Sdsc ­ses Raspberry Pi Cluster to Teach Parallel Computing

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have built a Linux cluster using 16 Raspberry Pi computers as part...
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