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Building It Talent From the Ground ­p
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Building It Talent From the Ground ­p

Interest in technology, particularly consumer technology, is at an all-time-high among teenagers in Hong Kong. But that passion isn't encouraging students to pursue...

Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations
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Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations

Paleoanthropologist Glenn Conroy and colleagues have developed artificial neural network models that predict prime locations to search for fossils.

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How to Get Your Kid Into an Elite Computer Science Program

Robotics competitions, programming skills tip the scales for college applicants; being a girl helps.

Hottest Major on Campus? Computer Science
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Hottest Major on Campus? Computer Science

The nation's best undergraduate computer science programs are bracing for a record number of applications this fall, as more students are lured by plentiful jobs...

Foreign Firms Troll For Tech Grads
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Foreign Firms Troll For Tech Grads

Foreign technology companies, many of which are led by foreign-born tech workers who left the U.S. due to visa issues, increasingly are recruiting some of the U...

The Advantages of Being a Woman in Tech
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The Advantages of Being a Woman in Tech

Cisco Systems CTO Padmasree Warrior, one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley, nearly bypassed a career in the tech industry, turned off by the dearth of...

How Apple Made Programmers Cool
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How Apple Made Programmers Cool

The rise of the app has massively altered the public perception of what a software programmer is. It has turned a generation of geek coders from social misfits...

Online Chat Boosts Lying and Email Has the Most Lies
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Online Chat Boosts Lying and Email Has the Most Lies

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers find that communication using instant messaging and e-mail increases lying compared to face-to-face talk, and e-mail...

Looking for Work? Job Fair Touts Tech Openings in India
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Looking for Work? Job Fair Touts Tech Openings in India

Indian companies, as well as American firms operating in India, are trying to lure India workers in the U.S. on a visa with promises of professional and economic...

Code-a-Thon Concludes 11th Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
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Code-a-Thon Concludes 11th Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

This year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing concluded with the Code-a-thon for Humanity, where code was written for Open Source Software Projects...

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Microsoft Establishes Academic Research Center in Israel

Microsoft has established its first academic research center in Israel on the campus of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Sheryl Sandberg's Keynote at Grace Hopper
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Sheryl Sandberg's Keynote at Grace Hopper

Sheryl Sandberg gave the opening keynote at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and spoke about why careers in technology are important and why it...

From ACM Opinion

Our High-Tech Health-Care Future

Why can't Americans tap into the ingenuity that put men on the moon, created the Internet, and sequenced the human genome to revitalize our economy?

Wpi to Create New STEM Education Center
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Wpi to Create New STEM Education Center

Worcester Polytechnic Institute will open the STEM Education Center to improve the preparedness of primary and secondary school teachers so that they can better...

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Hire a Vet? It Says Yes

When President Obama challenged the private sector this past August to hire 100,000 unemployed veterans by the end of 2013, he shared the stage with companies...

It's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru
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It's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru

The managing director of JPMorgan Chase's office of the CIO makes a case for Hadoop as the big data platform, and career track, of the future.

Online Game Aims to Improve Scientific Peer Review Accuracy
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Online Game Aims to Improve Scientific Peer Review Accuracy

A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that greater cooperation between the reviewer and author of scientific research...

Computing Contractors to Cost More Than Permanent Staff
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Computing Contractors to Cost More Than Permanent Staff

The price of hiring computer professionals as contractors is set to cost more than permanent staff thanks to the growing strength of Australia's economy, according...

India Embraces Technology as the Path From Poverty
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India Embraces Technology as the Path From Poverty

You notice a pattern amidst the crush of people on the overcrowded roads of India. Every few miles there's a cellphone tower and a fresh-looking building poking...

­niversities, Industry Team ­p For 'greener' Electronics
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­niversities, Industry Team ­p For 'greener' Electronics

Three leading U.S. universities and 15 companies have jointly launched a collaborative research center whose holistic approach to energy efficiency development...
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