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Cmu's Brumley Receives Prestigious Pecase Award For Cybersecurity Research
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Cmu's Brumley Receives Prestigious Pecase Award For Cybersecurity Research

Carnegie Mellon University's David Brumley has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government...

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The ­niversity of Wherever

For more than a decade educators have been expecting the Internet to transform that bastion of tradition and authority, the university. Digital utopians have...

MentorNet Opens Its Doors to Students from All Campuses
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MentorNet Opens Its Doors to Students from All Campuses

To encourage more students to work with mentors during their academic careers, MentorNet is making it easier for any student with an .EDU email address to find...

'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians
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'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians

The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...

Wpi Launches Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Programs
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Wpi Launches Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Programs

Beginning with the new academic year, Worcester Polytechnic Institute is launching  interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate degree programs  in bioinformatics...

A Campus Champion For Women in Computer Science
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A Campus Champion For Women in Computer Science

Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe has helped increase the percentage of female computer science majors at the college to 42 percent, compared to the national...

Obama Jobs Plan: How IT Workers Will Benefit
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Obama Jobs Plan: How IT Workers Will Benefit

In his speech to Congress introducing the American Jobs Act, President Obama discussed the need for additional legislation that, if passed, would have a direct...

­w Professor Shwetak Patel Wins Macarthur Foundation 'genius' Award
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­w Professor Shwetak Patel Wins Macarthur Foundation 'genius' Award

 Shwetak Patel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, has been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow...

Scholarship Program Addresses Science and Math Teacher Shortages
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Scholarship Program Addresses Science and Math Teacher Shortages

The Ithaca College Robert Noyce Scholarship Program will prepare 18 undergraduates for careers teaching physics and math in high-need school districts.

Fund Supports $250,000 Annual Student Prize For Software, Technology Business Plan
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Fund Supports $250,000 Annual Student Prize For Software, Technology Business Plan

A group of investors has created a $1.1 million fund to support $250,000 in annual prize money to Indiana University Bloomington students who submit the best...

Physics Professor a Modern Day 'mr. Wizard'
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Physics Professor a Modern Day 'mr. Wizard'

Southeastern Louisiana University physicist Rhett Allain is a modern day "Mr. Wizard." Author of the highly popular science blog Dot Physics, he analyzes ideas...

Chinese Students Are Storming ­.s. Grad Schools: They Have the Money and the Brains
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Chinese Students Are Storming ­.s. Grad Schools: They Have the Money and the Brains

If you build it, they will come. No, I'm not talking about a baseball field amidst stalks of corn but the educational institutions dotting the U.S. landscape...

Technion Students Create Application that 'writes' Books
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Technion Students Create Application that 'writes' Books

Students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a computer app that scours Wikipedia to "write" books in a matter of minutes on any subject...

Nsf Grant to Expand Computer Science Principles Curriculum
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Nsf Grant to Expand Computer Science Principles Curriculum

The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding a program to offer "computer science principles" classes at San Diego area high schools, community colleges, and...

In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
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In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores

Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As...

When Computer Programming Was Women's Work
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When Computer Programming Was Women's Work

Nearly thirty-five years ago, 11% of computer science majors were women. Their proportion continued to rise steadily, reaching its peak (37%) in 1984. Then, over...

Math Anxiety: Deal With It Early, Professor Says
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Math Anxiety: Deal With It Early, Professor Says

Math anxiety is a problem that usually starts at an early age, and if it isn't addressed in grade school, math anxiety can hinder students throughout their education...

Program Encourages Government Employees to Innovate
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Program Encourages Government Employees to Innovate

Now beginning its second year, the Masters of Science in Leadership, offered by Washington University in St. Louis in partnership with the Brookings Institution...

Remedies For Science's Shortage of Superheroes
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Remedies For Science's Shortage of Superheroes

A serious personnel shortage in the global science and engineering workforce involves a the scarcity of real-life superheroes with charm, charisma, people skills...

Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World
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Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World

As part of a dramatic effort to expand its IT offerings to a global audience, Stanford University will be offering 101-level courses free online on artificial...
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