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Online Environment to Help Vehicle Designers Collaborate
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Online Environment to Help Vehicle Designers Collaborate

The Georgia Tech Research Institute has received a $1.5 million contract from DARPA to produce an online environment that would let multiple design teams work together...

What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell ­S About the Future of Education
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What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell ­S About the Future of Education

Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the past few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup Codecademy)...

Record 29 Bay Area High School Students Are Intel Semifinalists
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Record 29 Bay Area High School Students Are Intel Semifinalists

Bay Area high school seniors snagged an astounding 29 spots among the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalists, it was announced Wednesday.

Sandia Cyber Project Looks to Help It Professionals with Dns Vulnerabilities
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Sandia Cyber Project Looks to Help It Professionals with Dns Vulnerabilities

Sandia National Laboratories' Casey Deccio has developed a visualization tool known as DNSViz to help network administrators within the federal government and global...

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School Ict to Be Replaced By Computer Science Programme

The current information and communications technology (ICT) curriculum in England's schools is a "mess" and must be radically revamped, the education secretary...

Stephen Hawking's New Pc
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Stephen Hawking's New Pc

Intel application engineer Travis Bonifield has been working closely with Hawking to communicate with the world for a decade.

Wanted: Supercomputer Programmers
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Wanted: Supercomputer Programmers

The U.S.'s supercomputing labs are having difficulty finding software developers who can program state-of-the-art machines, according to a recent Daily Beast article...

Student Team Creates 'mtsu Mobile' App For Campus
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Student Team Creates 'mtsu Mobile' App For Campus

Five computer science students at Middle Tennessee State University have developed an Android mobile app that has been adopted for use at their university. Specific...

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Could Coding Be the Next Mass Profession?

Like farming in the 17th century, factory work in the industrial revolution, construction in the Great Depression, and manufacturing following World War II, but...

In Flop of H.p. Touchpad, an Object Lesson For the Tech Sector
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In Flop of H.p. Touchpad, an Object Lesson For the Tech Sector

The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011—and quickly turned out to be the year’s biggest flop.

Help Nasa Code Its Way Through Space
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Help Nasa Code Its Way Through Space

If you'd like to work on software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on.

It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery
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It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery

The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.

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You Need To Learn How To Program

If you're looking for a New Year's resolution, let me suggest an idea that you might not have considered: You should learn computer programming. Specifically,...

Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations
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Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations

After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian...

Q&a with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto
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Q&a with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto

It was a tough year for Nintendo. Revenue at the venerable game company plunged. Its stock price was cut in half. And initial sales of its new 3DS handheld game...

Gaming's New Frontier After Zynga
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Gaming's New Frontier After Zynga

In July of 2009, David Reid got a call from a recruiter who wanted to gauge his interest in joining a little-known start-up called Trion Worlds Inc. A gaming...

Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)
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Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)

Marc Andreessen's view of the world boils down to software.

Five Questions with Astronaut Rex Walheim
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Five Questions with Astronaut Rex Walheim

Rex Walheim is an astronaut. He's gone to space three times, including on the last flight of the space shuttle. He has spent an accumulated 36 hours outside the...

Secondary Schools Fail Teenagers Over Computer Lessons, Says Ofsted
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Secondary Schools Fail Teenagers Over Computer Lessons, Says Ofsted

Schools are jeopardizing the career prospects of thousands of teenagers by failing to offer compulsory classes in computing, a damning report by inspectors shows...

Teaching Ventures Catch the Programming Wave
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Teaching Ventures Catch the Programming Wave

With computer programmers in demand, new start-ups that aim to train people in coding skills are also becoming hot properties.
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