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Startups Aim to Make Coding Fun
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Startups Aim to Make Coding Fun

For Jacob Arriola, a business development manager for a Spanish media company in Los Angeles, learning to program wasn't a necessity. But figuring it might help...

American Students Don't Want To Go Into Tech Because Of Their Colleges
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American Students Don't Want To Go Into Tech Because Of Their Colleges

Technology is one of the few sectors that isn't suffering from unemployment, yet there isn't enough talent to fill positions, and it's because colleges are doing...

Examining Why Women Students Abandon Math and Science Majors
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Examining Why Women Students Abandon Math and Science Majors

Roxanne Hughes' recently completed doctoral dissertation identifies a variety of factors that influence female undergraduates as they make a decision about their...

Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness
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Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness

Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional...

­spto and Autm Announce Joint Patent Examiners Training Initiative
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­spto and Autm Announce Joint Patent Examiners Training Initiative

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Association of University Technology Managers, a nonprofit organization, have launched a specialized training program...

Tech Industry Climbs Out of Silicon Valley, Moves Abroad
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Tech Industry Climbs Out of Silicon Valley, Moves Abroad

Washington, D.C., has replaced Silicon Valley as the locus for technology jobs as non-tech industries continue to add tech professionals, according to Dice.com....

How America's Wealthiest Get Rich
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How America's Wealthiest Get Rich

If you follow our World’s Billionaires list, you know there's no single way to get the job done–you can get rich on energy drinks or yoga pants just as well as...

Two Computer Scientists to Receive Nsf's Alan T. Waterman Award
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Two Computer Scientists to Receive Nsf's Alan T. Waterman Award

Two computer scientists, Robert Wood of Harvard University and Scott Aaronson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have been named by the National Science...

DARPA Director Bolts Pentagon For Google
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DARPA Director Bolts Pentagon For Google

Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google.

Khan Academy: The Future of Education?
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Khan Academy: The Future of Education?

Sal Khan is a math, science, and history teacher to millions of students, yet none have ever seen his face.

Hail to the Geeks
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Hail to the Geeks

Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...

The Helper
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The Helper

MIT senior Jacob Wamala applies his engineering skills and his desire to serve to help improve the lives of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.

Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World
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Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World

Stanford University is introducing five free online classes in March as the next step in a university initiative to use new technologies to improve education....

Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge
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Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge

The Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, sponsored by DARPA and NASA, and run by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, TopCoder, and Aurora Flight Sciences...

Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says
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Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says

Cloud computing technologies will help create nearly 14 million technology-related jobs worldwide by 2015, resulting in $1.1 trillion in revenue annually, according...

What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball
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What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball

The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...

Supercomputer Center Announces 2012 Internships For High School Students
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Supercomputer Center Announces 2012 Internships For High School Students

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is holding a volunteer internship program for high school students this summer to assist them in gaining experience...

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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers

As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...

Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models
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Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models

There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket.

App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students
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App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students

An app created by a Vanderbilt graduate student converts an Android tablet computer into a powerful tool for teaching math to visually impaired students.
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