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New Sandia Director Will Be First Woman to Lead National Security Lab
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New Sandia Director Will Be First Woman to Lead National Security Lab

Jill M. Hruby will be the first woman to lead a U.S. national security laboratory when she becomes president and director of Sandia National Laboratories on July...

FEMMES Encourages Middle-School Girls to Acquire Coding Skills
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FEMMES Encourages Middle-School Girls to Acquire Coding Skills

The University of Chicago FEMMES Code Camp introduced computer science and taught coding skills to girls in a series of entertaining and hands-on activities earlier...

Google Didn't Lead the Self-Driving Vehicle Revolution. John Deere Did.
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Google Didn't Lead the Self-Driving Vehicle Revolution. John Deere Did.

Google has received tons of gushy press for its bubble-shaped self-driving car, though it's still years from the showroom floor.

The Moment I Decided Robots Were As Interesting As Humans
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The Moment I Decided Robots Were As Interesting As Humans

When I was little, I was enamored with the idea of being a pioneer; I was drawn to the thought that I could be the first to do something—be a trailblazer, the forerunner...

How to Spot Home-Grown Isis Recruits Online Before They Leave
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How to Spot Home-Grown Isis Recruits Online Before They Leave

Britain's youngest suicide bomber. That is how the name Talha Asmal was introduced to the public last week.

Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire
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Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire

Three-and-a-half years ago, a strange computing device appeared at an office building in the tiny farmland town of Shelby, Iowa.

Nsf Awards $12 Million to Spur an Engineering Education Revolution
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Nsf Awards $12 Million to Spur an Engineering Education Revolution

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $12 million to engineering and computer science departments to enact revolutionary, scalable, and sustainable changes...

What's It Like at a Top-Tier Conservatory? There's an App For That
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What's It Like at a Top-Tier Conservatory? There's an App For That

The world of education has become a rapidly expanding universe.

Free Software Tool Analyzes Cities as Spatial Networks
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Free Software Tool Analyzes Cities as Spatial Networks

A network analysis plugin helps urban planners and architects understand the social and economic consequences of city planning.

U.s. 'export Rules' Threaten Research
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U.s. 'export Rules' Threaten Research

The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...

Sidewalk Labs, a Start-­p Created By Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living
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Sidewalk Labs, a Start-­p Created By Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living

Google's ambitions and investments have increasingly broadened beyond its digital origins in Internet search and online advertising into the arena of physical objects...

Will Your Self-Driving Car Be Programmed to Kill You?
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Will Your Self-Driving Car Be Programmed to Kill You?

An ethical puzzler commonly known as the Trolley Problem has been given a 21st-century adaption to address a modern obsession: autonomous vehicles.

How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market
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How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market

It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, it has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head.

Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age
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Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age

To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.

Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing
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Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing

"Where am I?" In the real world, it's an easy question to answer. Online, things can get more complicated.

Get A Raise: Do's And Don'ts For It Pros
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Get A Raise: Do's And Don'ts For It Pros

Convincing your employer that you're worth a pay raise requires strategy, data on compensation trends, and good timing. There are proven ways to improve your...

Five Companies Control More Than Half of Academic Publishing
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Five Companies Control More Than Half of Academic Publishing

Five publishers — Reed-Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, and Sage — now publish more than 50 percent of academic articles.

Robotics Competition Generated Groundbreaking Research
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Robotics Competition Generated Groundbreaking Research

The research, theory, and algorithms behind Team MIT's sixth-place finish in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

Beautiful, Intriguing, and Illegal Ways to Map the Internet
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Beautiful, Intriguing, and Illegal Ways to Map the Internet

When you hear the word "Internet," what do you picture in your mind?

Sandia, Georgia Tech Form Academic Collaboration
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Sandia, Georgia Tech Form Academic Collaboration

Sandia National Laboratories and Georgia Institute of Technology have signed a five-year memorandum of understanding establishing a strategic collaboration that...
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