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Follow a Career Passion? Let It Follow You
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Follow a Career Passion? Let It Follow You

In the spring of 2004, during my senior year of college, I faced a hard decision about my future career.

Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free
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Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free

Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing...

Fostering Tech Talent in Schools
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Fostering Tech Talent in Schools

Microsoft recently launched the Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (Teals) program, an effort aimed at getting high school students interested in computer...

Students Concoct ­fo Hoax For Learning's Sake
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Students Concoct ­fo Hoax For Learning's Sake

Computer Visual Design students at Keuka College are creating photographs in Photoshop of unidentified flying objects to perpetuate a hoax while completing their...

On Waterfront, Rise of the Machines
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On Waterfront, Rise of the Machines

In the rising light of a mid-September morning, the CSAV Pyrenees, a blue-water freighter sailing out of Suape Port in Brazil, was lashed to its lines at BerthPort...

Critical Mass
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Critical Mass

Clemson University employs six African-American tenure-track or tenured computer science professors, which comprises 10 percent of the total number of black computer...

NY­ Experiments With Codecademy's Online Hacker Lessons
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NY­ Experiments With Codecademy's Online Hacker Lessons

New York University is teaming up with the computer programming tutorial site Codecademy to offer a free, non-credit programming class for NYU students.

Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley
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Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...

Tech Industry Keen on STEM Visas
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Tech Industry Keen on STEM Visas

The tech industry has a message for Republicans and Democrats bickering over competing immigration bills: See the bigger picture.

China: For Many Expats, It's Not Worth It
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China: For Many Expats, It's Not Worth It

Stay or go? That question has erupted in a public way among China's large population of expatriate businessmen, entrepreneurs, journalists, and academics, who the...

Big Data Brings Big Academic Opportunities
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Big Data Brings Big Academic Opportunities

Many colleges and universities are developing advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data.  

Innovation in the Classroom
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Innovation in the Classroom

MIT's 'Future of Education' symposium examined the evolution of teaching and learning.

How Student Coders Helped Cern Build Iphone App, Speed ­p Simulations
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How Student Coders Helped Cern Build Iphone App, Speed ­p Simulations

Google Summer of Code is one of the best deals out there both for students looking to hone their coding skills and for organizations that need cheap, talented labor...

Don't Tell Teenager Shachi Kakkar That Chip Verification Is For Nerds
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Don't Tell Teenager Shachi Kakkar That Chip Verification Is For Nerds

Anybody who's 17, or ever been 17, knows that any suggestions your parents make are nothing but lame. But every now and then, one of those lame ideas turns into...

Breaking Tech's Code
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Breaking Tech's Code

In New York City, new introductory programming courses that lead to immediate job opportunities — even for candidates with no previous experience — are helping...

Can the App Economy Cure Dismal Job Numbers?
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Can the App Economy Cure Dismal Job Numbers?

"This is shameless, really," said Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., on Wednesday, as she held out her iPad, showing high-resolution photo of her infant grandson to...

Collaborative STEM Programs at Rutgers-Camden Produce New Opportunities and Friendships
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Collaborative STEM Programs at Rutgers-Camden Produce New Opportunities and Friendships

STEM students at Rutgers University-Camden have access to scholarship and academic support thanks to a $600,000 U.S. NSF grant that aims to support high-achieving...

Stanford Announces 16 Online Courses For Fall Quarter
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Stanford Announces 16 Online Courses For Fall Quarter

Stanford University launched 16 new online courses and two new home-grown platforms for interactive learning this fall. Stanford's new online courses cover topics...

Stop Computer Prodigies Before They Hack
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Stop Computer Prodigies Before They Hack

Some U.S. government programs aim to teach kids the wrongness of hacking so they will be less likely to use their computing skills malevolently.

Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks
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Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks

On a dusk-lit beach on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, four miles from the northwesternmost point of the continental U.S., a man dressed in a mad scientist's white...
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