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Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise
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Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise

Rodney C. Adkins oversees 50,000 employees and is responsible for $18 billion in revenue as senior vice president and group executive for systems and technology...

Future Tech Jobs: We Need Social Science Graduates
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Future Tech Jobs: We Need Social Science Graduates

With interconnectivity at the heart of the social Web, forward-looking technology companies are now embracing the idea of hiring more social science graduates to...

Camp Preps Teens For Cybersecurity Careers
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Camp Preps Teens For Cybersecurity Careers

The Community College of Baltimore County this month held a five-day cybersecurity camp for teenagers in an effort to get high school students interested in security...

Students Develop Beneficial Smartphone Apps
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Students Develop Beneficial Smartphone Apps

Students and professors at The University of Alabama are working together to develop beneficial smartphone applications, including health related apps for blindness...

Nsf Funds $18.5 Million Effort to Create Mind-Machine Interface
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Nsf Funds $18.5 Million Effort to Create Mind-Machine Interface

The NSF  has announced an $18.5 million grant to establish an Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering based at the University of Washington...

Software Could Help Protect Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases
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Software Could Help Protect Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases

A team of undergraduate computer scientists and their professor at South Dakota State University are building software to protect people in Africa and North America...

Most States Do a Poor Job Preparing Students For Science or Technology Degrees
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Most States Do a Poor Job Preparing Students For Science or Technology Degrees

New rankings show that K-12 schools in most of the 50 states are doing a poor job of preparing students for science and engineering careers. Massachusetts leads...

At Mature Techs, A Young Vibe
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At Mature Techs, A Young Vibe

The largest technology companies, from IBM to Microsoft to Hewlett-Packard, are ramping up efforts to attract the best and brightest at America's top campuses....

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Yes, Researchers Say
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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Yes, Researchers Say

According to Babson College researchers, there is overwhelming evidence that taking two or more core entrepreneurship elective courses positively influenced students'...

How Are Students Learning Programming in a Post-Basic World?
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How Are Students Learning Programming in a Post-Basic World?

Since the Basic programming language has faded into obscurity, there is no single lingua franca across the entire PC user community to function as a default starter...

Engaging Students' Interest Early Promotes Pursuit of STEM Careers
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Engaging Students' Interest Early Promotes Pursuit of STEM Careers

A new study published in the journal Science Education finds that sparking students' interest in science at an early age is more effective at steering them toward...

The Multiplayer Classroom
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The Multiplayer Classroom

With a fresh perspective on education, Rensselaer Professor Lee Sheldon's new book details how to pattern a classroom after a multiplayer video game.

­tah Students May Earn Tuition Back from Video Games
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­tah Students May Earn Tuition Back from Video Games

Three student projects from one of the University of Utah's computer game development classes have been accepted for sale on Xbox Live Indie Games, an online computer...

Computer Studies Made Cool, on Film and Now on Campus
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Computer Studies Made Cool, on Film and Now on Campus

After a decade of decreases, computer science programs are experiencing a resurgence. Educators and technologists say the increase is directly related to the popularity...

Western Graduates Head to China For Internships
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Western Graduates Head to China For Internships

Looking for an advantage in a crowded job market, recent graduates in industries from engineering to finance in both Europe and the U.S. are making their way to...

Chinese Professionals Strive For Career Success in Canada
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Chinese Professionals Strive For Career Success in Canada

Judy Wu is the only person from mainland China in her unit at a large Canadian bank. No statistics are available, but anecdotes suggest that a large number of...

­k Government Launches Cyber Security Challenge Ii
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­k Government Launches Cyber Security Challenge Ii

The UK government has launched the Cyber Security Challenge II, a competition aimed at finding future cyber-warriors to secure the nation's interests in cyber...

National Ict Careers Week Announced in Australia
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National Ict Careers Week Announced in Australia

Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in Australia's Gillard Ministry, recently announced that the 2011...

States With the Most Open Tech Jobs
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States With the Most Open Tech Jobs

Job site Dice.com recently found that 18 states and Washington, D.C., have fewer computer-related graduates than open tech jobs. In California, the number of...

Getting Switched Onto ICT Opportunities
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Getting Switched Onto ICT Opportunities

The global shortage of ICT graduates has hit Ireland hard. ICT Ireland director Paul Sweetman claims between 3,000 and 4,000 jobs within the information and communications...
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