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­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes
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­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes

The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and...

Soldiers Becoming Scientists
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Soldiers Becoming Scientists

Proposed in 2007 and enacted in 2008, the newest version of the U.S. military's veterans education program—variously known as the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the Webb GI...

In the Afghan War, a Little Robot Can Be a Soldier's Best Friend
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In the Afghan War, a Little Robot Can Be a Soldier's Best Friend

The 310 SUGV is a distant cousin of the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner currently being promoted as a Father's Day gift. In Afghanistan, the Marines call him...

H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B
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H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B

For Silicon Valley, a day of ritual disappointment came on June 12: The U.S. announced that the slots for 2013 H-1B visas had all been filled.

Mit, Intel ­nveil New Initiatives Addressing 'big Data'
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Mit, Intel ­nveil New Initiatives Addressing 'big Data'

MIT has been selected from among 55 institutions that submitted 157 proposals to host a new Intel research center that will concentrate on what's come to be called...

Aging Microsoft Lures Young Tech Idealists
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Aging Microsoft Lures Young Tech Idealists

The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business, and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer...

Sandia Opens Cyber Research Facility
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Sandia Opens Cyber Research Facility

Sandia National Laboratories' new Cybersecurity Technologies Research Laboratory offers an open yet controlled area for cybersecurity professionals to meet and...

IBM Partners With Syracuse University to Tap Next-Gen Mainframe Workers
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IBM Partners With Syracuse University to Tap Next-Gen Mainframe Workers

IBM announced a partnership with Syracuse University to help college students build smarter computing skills to manage both traditional and new systems in large...

Fixing the Gender Gap in Tech
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Fixing the Gender Gap in Tech

Women continue to lag behind men in computer science, where their share of the workforce has actually declined over the past 25 years.

How To Fix the Gender Gap in Technology
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How To Fix the Gender Gap in Technology

The United States has produced viable female presidential candidates, women athletes who command millions of dollars in endorsements, and the first female Nobel...

Revenge of the Nerds: Tech Firms Scour College Campuses for Talent
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Revenge of the Nerds: Tech Firms Scour College Campuses for Talent

On college campuses these days, the top nerds are getting a taste of what it's like to be star jocks.

Cybersecurity Experts Needed to Meet Growing Demand
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Cybersecurity Experts Needed to Meet Growing Demand

Demand for cybersecurity professionals far outweighs supply, with the U.S. government needing to hire at least 10,000 experts in the near future and the private...

Software Screening Raises Bar for Hiring
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Software Screening Raises Bar for Hiring

In an essay in this newspaper last fall, Peter Cappelli, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, challenged...

Higher Education's Online Revolution
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Higher Education's Online Revolution

The substitution of technology (which is cheap) for labor (which is expensive) can vastly increase access to an elite-caliber education.

'hacker' Boosts Programming Team's Competitiveness
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'hacker' Boosts Programming Team's Competitiveness

Since he arrived on campus as in 2008, Louis Wasserman has brought leadership to a group of ambitious computer programmers who, with his help, have made the University...

Silicon Valley Needs Humanities Students
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Silicon Valley Needs Humanities Students

According to a recent survey of U.S.-born CEOs and heads of product engineering, only 37% held degrees in engineering or computer technology, and just 2% had a...

Coolest Jobs in Tech: Decoding Life, Touring Solar Systems
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Coolest Jobs in Tech: Decoding Life, Touring Solar Systems

Managing hardware and storage needs; building custom, in-house applications; making information accessible via the Web—such tasks are the mainstays of IT work,...

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Silicon Valley Foreign Worker Search Speeds ­p After Lull

Technology firms have tripled their recruitment of foreign workers this spring after a hiring lull of several years—a development that is reigniting the debate...

Daniela Rus Named Csail Director
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Daniela Rus Named Csail Director

Daniela Rus, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the next director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial...

Why Engineering, Science Gender Gap Persists
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Why Engineering, Science Gender Gap Persists

As evidence continues to suggest that women are underrepresented in the computer science field, educators are attempting to address the reasons for the lack of...
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