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Sandia Technologist Looks Back on Bubbles, Balloons, and Beer
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Sandia Technologist Looks Back on Bubbles, Balloons, and Beer

Sandia principal technologist Richard Simpson has helped a variety of tests throughout Sandia for 27 years. He's filled a canyon with soap bubbles, shot photos...

'Eight Great Technologies' Benefit from £600m in Government Funding
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'Eight Great Technologies' Benefit from £600m in Government Funding

Science minister David Willetts has set out details of how most of the money will be spent.

New Cornell Technology School Will Foster Commerce Amid Education
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New Cornell Technology School Will Foster Commerce Amid Education

Their curriculum devotes months to helping a company solve a current technological challenge.

Frequent Multitaskers Are Bad Multitaskers
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Frequent Multitaskers Are Bad Multitaskers

Most people believe they can multitask effectively, but a University of Utah study indicates that people who multitask the most — including talking on a cell phone...

Tech Salaries Jump 5.3%, Bonuses Flat
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Tech Salaries Jump 5.3%, Bonuses Flat

Technology professionals' average salaries rose 5.3 percent to $85,619 last year, according to Dice. Tech professionals with at least 15 years of experience saw...

Seven Student Myths of the Online Classroom
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Seven Student Myths of the Online Classroom

The flexibility of the online learning environment can give rise to seven different myths or inaccuracies about what is expected from both students and instructors...

Skills Survey Reveals Neglected Generation of It Workers Over 60
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Skills Survey Reveals Neglected Generation of It Workers Over 60

Ninety-two percent of U.K. business leaders admit to not investing in training and development for employees over 60, leading to concern that older workers are...

Ibm, ­niversities Team ­p to Build Data Scientists
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Ibm, ­niversities Team ­p to Build Data Scientists

IBM is increasing its efforts to support big data academic programs. "We're working with universities to provide help with curricula, technology, and real-world...

Men More Likely Than Women to Commit Scientific Fraud
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Men More Likely Than Women to Commit Scientific Fraud

Male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs across the career spectrum, from trainees to senior faculty. That's the conclusion...

Disparity Among First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in STEM Degrees
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Disparity Among First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in STEM Degrees

Latino and Asian immigrants and their U.S.-born children are studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects at different rates. The...

Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates
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Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates

Zhang Xiaoping’s mother dropped out of school after sixth grade. Her father, one of 10 children, never attended.

Src, DARPA ­nveil $194 Million Research Network Focused on Next-Generation Microelectronics
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Src, DARPA ­nveil $194 Million Research Network Focused on Next-Generation Microelectronics

The new STARnet program features six microelectronics research centers based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Michigan, Minnesota, Notre Dame,...

Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe
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Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe

The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of unstructured text, blogs, and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help military analysts...

Cyberwar's Gray Market
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Cyberwar's Gray Market

Behind computer screens from France to Fort Worth, Texas, elite hackers hunt for security vulnerabilities worth thousands of dollars on a secretive unregulated...

Education Body Calls on Support of It Pros to Close Ict Skills Gap
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Education Body Calls on Support of It Pros to Close Ict Skills Gap

All major U.K. employers should be involved in the effort to close the IT skills gap, according to a report from the Corporate IT Forum Education and Skills Commission...

App Helps Catch Drunk Drivers
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App Helps Catch Drunk Drivers

Computer science professor Frank Vahid and students at the University of California, Riverside have created a free app that makes it easy to record and report drunk...

It Job Market Recovering Faster Than After Dot-Com Bubble Burst
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It Job Market Recovering Faster Than After Dot-Com Bubble Burst

More new technology jobs have been created since the end of the past recession than during the same recovery period following the burst of the dot-com bubble and...

­.S. Postal Service Pushes the Digital Envelope in Battle for Its Future
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­.S. Postal Service Pushes the Digital Envelope in Battle for Its Future

Paul Vogel is, in his own words, trying to bring the U.S. Postal Service "from the today world into the tomorrow world."

Virginia Tech Engineers Awarded $800,000 to Explore Efficient Spectrum Sharing
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Virginia Tech Engineers Awarded $800,000 to Explore Efficient Spectrum Sharing

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research are funding Virginia Tech engineers in their work on efficient spectrum sharing that should...

Detroit: After Decades of ­rban Blight, Technology Boom Gives Motor City Hope
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Detroit: After Decades of ­rban Blight, Technology Boom Gives Motor City Hope

The raucous scene inside the M@ dison building is not one usually associated with inner-city Detroit.
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