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The Best Cities For Finding IT Jobs in 2012
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The Best Cities For Finding IT Jobs in 2012

The best U.S. cities for finding IT jobs are Washington DC, Houston, Minneapolis, and San Francisco, according to a survey of three national staffing firms.

Re-Framing Talent For Our Times
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Re-Framing Talent For Our Times

Today's economy is characterized by rapid, volatile change and mounting competitive pressures. Companies need to re-define "talent" to meet these demands.

Khan Academy: The Future of Education?
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Khan Academy: The Future of Education?

Sal Khan is a math, science, and history teacher to millions of students, yet none have ever seen his face.

Where 4,000,000 Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected
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Where 4,000,000 Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected

The first thing I noticed when I stepped into Recellular's Ann Arbor warehouse was the flags. From the rafters, the flags of the world oversee the processing of...

Teach Your Robot Well
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Teach Your Robot Well

A new study by Georgia Tech's Maya Cakmak and Andrea Thomaz identifies the types of questions a robot can ask during a learning interaction that are most likely...

Nintendo Wii Game Controllers Help Diagnose Eye Disorder
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Nintendo Wii Game Controllers Help Diagnose Eye Disorder

Scientists are using Wii remotes to assess and diagnose children with ocular torticollis, an abnormal head position caused by eye diseases.

Two Asteroids Named After Unix Co-Creators
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Two Asteroids Named After Unix Co-Creators

Two small asteroids now bear the names of two towering figures in computing history, Unix inventors Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

The Helper
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The Helper

MIT senior Jacob Wamala applies his engineering skills and his desire to serve to help improve the lives of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.

Computer Experts Join the Battle Against Moths Invading Britain
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Computer Experts Join the Battle Against Moths Invading Britain

Computer experts have been called in to help Britain win an increasingly desperate battle against an invading army of clothes-eating moths.

Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World
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Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World

Stanford University is introducing five free online classes in March as the next step in a university initiative to use new technologies to improve education....

Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says
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Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says

Cloud computing technologies will help create nearly 14 million technology-related jobs worldwide by 2015, resulting in $1.1 trillion in revenue annually, according...

RPI Student Aims To Improve Efficiency of Power Grids
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RPI Student Aims To Improve Efficiency of Power Grids

Zepu Wang has developed a new advanced material to coat electrical components and allow the transmission of higher voltages across power infrastructures. The material...

IT Jobs on the Rise
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IT Jobs on the Rise

As growth returns to the world economy, outsourcing returned to favor in 2011 and will continue to post gains in 2012 as well, according to a report by Morrison...

App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students
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App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students

An app created by a Vanderbilt graduate student converts an Android tablet computer into a powerful tool for teaching math to visually impaired students.

Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market
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Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market

Perched atop Berkeley's tallest building, the Berkeley Skydeck is a UC Berkeley campus-community partnership that could change the way emerging companies scale...

Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says
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Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says

In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...

How To Kill Patent Trolls
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How To Kill Patent Trolls

Firms that collect and enforce patents of dubious value—with no intention of creating the invention described in those patents—are the scourge of innovators everywhere...

In Space and on Earth, Why Build It, When a Robot Can Build It For You?
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In Space and on Earth, Why Build It, When a Robot Can Build It For You?

Like something out of "Star Wars," armies of robots could nimbly crawl up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don’t have...

Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language
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Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language

Google's easy. It helps you find stuff. Facebook—duh—lets you connect with friends. Even Intel's a no-brainer—they make those little pieces of whatever inside your...

Engineering the Next Generation of STEM
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Engineering the Next Generation of STEM

Industry participants, reacting to the so-called engineering crisis, are doing what they can to foster science, technology, engineering, and math talent and encourage...
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