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Nyc Students, Hackers Train For Cybersecurity Jobs
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Nyc Students, Hackers Train For Cybersecurity Jobs

The Polytechnic Institute of New York University hosts Hack Night once a week to train students to become "white-hat" hackers. The school also holds an annual hacking...

The Digital Public Library of America: Adding Gravitas to Your Internet Search
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The Digital Public Library of America: Adding Gravitas to Your Internet Search

One year ago, a group of professors, librarians, and futurists gathered in San Francisco to discuss how they would go about building a Digital Public Library of...

Obama's 2014 Science Budget Proposal Revitalizes STEM Education, Reduces Environmental Conservation
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Obama's 2014 Science Budget Proposal Revitalizes STEM Education, Reduces Environmental Conservation

Among the winners in Pres. Barack Obama’s 2014 federal budget: the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Education, and National Science Foundation. The losers...

Struggling Cities, From Detroit to New Orleans, See Startups as Saviors
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Struggling Cities, From Detroit to New Orleans, See Startups as Saviors

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Greg Schwartz worked in New York at Warner Music Group as director of digital business.

Programming Invitational Provides Tune-­p For Icpc World Finals
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Programming Invitational Provides Tune-­p For Icpc World Finals

Twenty-three teams from across North America, all qualifiers for the Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals...

Geer, Thieme: Specialization and Institutionalization Have Transformed Security
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Geer, Thieme: Specialization and Institutionalization Have Transformed Security

Two elders of information security came to Source Boston 2013 Wednesday morning to encourage the next generation to grab the torch from them and to urge great caution...

India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips
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India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips

The government of India, home to many of the world’s leading software outsourcing companies, wants to replicate that success by creating a homegrown industry for...

Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities
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Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities

The U.S. military has been attempting to build up the offensive cybersecurity capabilities in its various services for several years now, but is running into the...

Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun

Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...

Should ­niversities Offer Cobol Classes?
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Should ­niversities Offer Cobol Classes?

Billions of lines of Cobol code are still in use at large businesses and in government agencies. However, Cobol is only taught as an elective at most universities...

Immigration and the Knowledge Economy
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Immigration and the Knowledge Economy

Earlier this year I started teaching a class on entrepreneurship at an after-school program in my community.

Building a Better Tech School
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Building a Better Tech School

If all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City...

Inside the App Culture
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Inside the App Culture

I wouldn't say I have my finger, or any body part, on the pulse of the tech scene. Most of my knowledge of New York City's Internet start-up and mobile-app culture...

Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents
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Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

To be a good coder in Silicon Valley is to be among the pampered elite.

What Thousands of Job Vacancies Say About Microsoft
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What Thousands of Job Vacancies Say About Microsoft

Analysts at Griffin Securities conducted a handy piece of research on Microsoft recently: scanning the company's careers websites and analyzing the details of the...

We Can STEM the Gender Gap
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We Can STEM the Gender Gap

Why is there such a gender imbalance when it comes to the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields? Studies suggest that academic performance is...

Scientific Articles Accepted (personal Checks, Too)
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Scientific Articles Accepted (personal Checks, Too)

The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional...

Cyber Education Key to Security
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Cyber Education Key to Security

Today, cyberspace is woven into the fabric of our daily lives.

Avatars, Virtual Classroom Aid as Teacher Preparation Tools
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Avatars, Virtual Classroom Aid as Teacher Preparation Tools

Student teacher candidates at Southeastern Louisiana University are practicing their skills in a virtual classroom before having to experience the real thing.

17 of Apple's Favorite Apps
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17 of Apple's Favorite Apps

Steve Jobs was a stickler for detail, requiring final approval on everything from ads to wording on his Keynote presentations. It's no surprise then that the company...
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