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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course
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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course

A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...

Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller
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Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller

On Thursday, Aug. 4, the MIT Press held a party in MIT's Stata Center to celebrate the sale of the 500,000th copy of the textbook Introduction to Algorithms....

Defcon Opens Its Doors to Pre-Teen and Teen Hackers
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Defcon Opens Its Doors to Pre-Teen and Teen Hackers

DefCon, the conference where hackers and the people who monitor them get together to trade the latest in hacking and tracking data, had some new attendees: children...

Recruiters Outnumber Job-Seekers at Hacker Fair
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Recruiters Outnumber Job-Seekers at Hacker Fair

Tom Sherlock demonstrated his wearable computer. Steven Neff, hemmed in by a scrum of recruiters from Google, Rackspace and Pulse News, showed off his art-filled...

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Leadership of Cyber Warriors

Leadership is a core competency of the officers, warrant officers, and non-commissioned officers across the military services. A principle tenant of leadership...

Your Next Job: Mobile App Developer?
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Your Next Job: Mobile App Developer?

As market demand surges for apps to run on smart device operating systems, companies are facing a shortage of mobile development talent, and that could lead to...

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...

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...

Computer Models Will Help Prevent Wildfires
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Computer Models Will Help Prevent Wildfires

With an eye on preventing wildfires, the U.S. National Science Foundation is supporting the SDFireSight project's development of a technical framework and computer...

What Gamers Want: Researchers Develop Tool To Predict Player Behavior
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What Gamers Want: Researchers Develop Tool To Predict Player Behavior

Computer science researchers have developed a new method that can accurately predict the behavior of players in online role-playing games. The tool could be used...

Code Green: Energy-Efficient Programming to Curb Computers' Power ­se
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Code Green: Energy-Efficient Programming to Curb Computers' Power ­se

Computer programmers are going green with a new system called EnerJ, which helps them cut a program's energy consumption by as much as 50 percent.

Intel Anthropologist: Fieldwork with the Silicon Tribe
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Intel Anthropologist: Fieldwork with the Silicon Tribe

Anthropologist Genevieve Bell gives the chip maker insight into how people experience new technologies.

Shift to Cloud Requires Fresh IT Skills
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Shift to Cloud Requires Fresh IT Skills

As organizations move more of their applications to the cloud, they might find themselves needing skills different from what their system administrators now possess...

Linux Skills: A Hot Commodity for Job Hunters
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Linux Skills: A Hot Commodity for Job Hunters

A few years ago Linux skills were just one in a series of possible assets for job applicants looking to stand out. Now they may be a make-or-break element. Recent...

Mobile Action Lab Trains Young People to Design, Develop and Market Apps
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Mobile Action Lab Trains Young People to Design, Develop and Market Apps

Over nearly 20 years, Youth Radio's radio skills training program has helped young people develop marketable behind-the-scenes and on-air skills. Now it's taking...

Mind-Controlled Art Project/ride Links Eeg Headset and Theatrical Flying Rig
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Mind-Controlled Art Project/ride Links Eeg Headset and Theatrical Flying Rig

A team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students has created a system that pairs an EEG headset with a 3-D theatrical flying harness, allowing users to "fly"...

Visual Recognition in Mobile App Makes Tree Identification a Snap
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Visual Recognition in Mobile App Makes Tree Identification a Snap

The University of Maryland, Columbia University and the Smithsonian Institution have created the world's first plant identification mobile app using visual search...

Linux Skills Are Hot in an Improving IT Hiring Front
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Linux Skills Are Hot in an Improving IT Hiring Front

The hiring environment for information technology professionals last year was the best it's been since 2000, according to a recent Challenger, Gray & Christmas...

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Qa Jobs Morph as Agile Development Methods Gain Ground

The recession is changing the types of skills and experiences required of Quality Assurance (QA) professionals. The widespread adoption of agile development is...

ACM Council on Women Honors Leader in Improving Cad Performance
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ACM Council on Women Honors Leader in Improving Cad Performance

ACM's Council on Women in Computing has named Pennsylvania State University computer science professor Mary Jane Irwin the 2010-2011 Athena Lecturer. 
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