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Educators Offer Strategy to Clean Up Cheating in Moocs
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Educators Offer Strategy to Clean Up Cheating in Moocs

Two University of Virginia researchers offer a solution to the potential for widespread cheating in massive open online courses, an obstacle to the courses' widespread...

Let's Play: Making Travel a Game
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Let's Play: Making Travel a Game

It was a Sunday afternoon in SoHo and while most New Yorkers were having brunch, Makeda Peters and her boyfriend were on a street corner craning their necks at...

How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code
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How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code

Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn.

Is Coding the New Second Language?
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Is Coding the New Second Language?

It's first period at Harlem's Cristo Rey high school, a private Catholic school for motivated low-income kids.

New ­niversity of ­tah Program Prepares Students to Work at New Nsa Center
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New ­niversity of ­tah Program Prepares Students to Work at New Nsa Center

A few years ago, the National Security Agency, the country's top electronic spy agency, pondered a question with national security implications.

In China, Big Data Is Becoming Big Business
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In China, Big Data Is Becoming Big Business

With 1.3 billion people, a quickly expanding urban economy, and rising rates of Internet and smartphone penetration, China generates an immense amount of data annually...

Coursera Partners With 10 Universities For Online Classes
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Coursera Partners With 10 Universities For Online Classes

Online learning startup Coursera has formed partnerships with 10 public universities and university systems to develop courses that can be taken for credit either...

Graphics Gurus Master Wispy Hair, Snowballs, Torn Paper
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Graphics Gurus Master Wispy Hair, Snowballs, Torn Paper

The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...

Students Perform Well Regardless of Reading Print or Digital Books, Research Shows
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Students Perform Well Regardless of Reading Print or Digital Books, Research Shows

Students did equally well on a test whether reading from a digital book or a printed one, according to research by Jim Johnson, an Indiana State University doctoral...

Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries

At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even...

Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox For $100m
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Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox For $100m

When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported $100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn’t even available to the public.

Hackers Find China Is Land of Opportunity
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Hackers Find China Is Land of Opportunity

Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the...

A Master's-Level Computer Science Degree, Delivered Via Moocs
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A Master's-Level Computer Science Degree, Delivered Via Moocs

The Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, plans to offer the first online Master of Science degree in computer science that can be earned via a...

Mooc Provider Edx More Than Doubles Its University Partners
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Mooc Provider Edx More Than Doubles Its University Partners

EdX announced that 15 additional universities have agreed to offer free massive open online courses, bringing the total membership to 27 institutions.

Open Access Research Journal to Launch Next Year
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Open Access Research Journal to Launch Next Year

The American Educational Research Association announced that it will launch AERA Open, an online, peer-reviewed journal that will be freely available to all readers...

Big Data Could Generate Millions of New Jobs
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Big Data Could Generate Millions of New Jobs

With data analytics now one of the fastest growing fields in IT, it stands to reason that data scientists are in demand. That's great for people with the requisite...

Princeton ­niversity Celebrates the Art of Science
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Princeton ­niversity Celebrates the Art of Science

Sometimes the connection between art and science is clear.

Canada Comes to Silicon Valley to Poach High-Tech Workers Struggling with Immigration Problems
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Canada Comes to Silicon Valley to Poach High-Tech Workers Struggling with Immigration Problems

Canada has landed in Silicon Valley with a brazen message: Give us your smart, your restless, your huddled Googleplex workers yearning to breathe life into the...

Moshe Vardi: Robots Could Put Humans Out of Work By 2045
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Moshe Vardi: Robots Could Put Humans Out of Work By 2045

Robots began replacing human brawn long ago—now they're poised to replace human brains.

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Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and...
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