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Virginia Tech Researcher Addresses Issues That Slow Wireless Networks
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Virginia Tech Researcher Addresses Issues That Slow Wireless Networks

A Virginia Tech researcher has won a five-year U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award to address cross-layer network incompatibility issues to help speed...

Healthcare Industry Leads Market in IT Hiring
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Healthcare Industry Leads Market in IT Hiring

As a result of increased federal spending on healthcare and new federal regulations, the healthcare industry is at the forefront of creating new IT jobs. The U.S...

Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World
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Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World

As part of a dramatic effort to expand its IT offerings to a global audience, Stanford University will be offering 101-level courses free online on artificial...

Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker
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Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker

Back to school time and millions of British kids are heading back to classrooms to embark on the national curriculum so beloved of busybody ministers.

Nsf Grant Supports Development of STEM Games For Blind Students
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Nsf Grant Supports Development of STEM Games For Blind Students

The National Science Foundation has awarded Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis approximately $250,000 to further research and development of online...

Mumbai Surgeon Performs Knee Replacement Surgery ­sing Ipod Touch
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Mumbai Surgeon Performs Knee Replacement Surgery ­sing Ipod Touch

A Mumbai surgeon successfully performed knee replacement surgery on a 75-year-old patient using an iPod Touch. It was the first commercial non-experimental orthopedic ...

Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree
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Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree

Harvard and Ohio State are not going to disappear any time soon. But a host of new online enterprises are making earning a college degree cheaper, faster, and...

More Chinese Students Look to U.s. For Grad School
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More Chinese Students Look to U.s. For Grad School

The International Graduate Admissions Survey found that the number of Chinese applicants to U.S. graduate schools increased by 21 percent from this past school...

Human Gait Could Soon Power Portable Electronics
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Human Gait Could Soon Power Portable Electronics

In a new paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers describe a new energy-harvesting technology that promises to dramatically reduce the dependence on batteries...

Can Computer Science Skills Save Democracy?
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Can Computer Science Skills Save Democracy?

IT recruiters all across the country report difficulty finding the talent that their client companies need. At CCC Blog, Henry Kautz of the Department of Computer...

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Nasa and Tor-Forge Books Partner in Themed Science Fiction Works

In an effort to introduce, inform, and inspire readers about NASA, the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, has partnered with Tor-Forge Books...

Antennas in Your Clothes? Researchers' Design Could Pave the Way
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Antennas in Your Clothes? Researchers' Design Could Pave the Way

The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine. To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers...

Desperately Seeking a Job, With Cookies If Necessary
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Desperately Seeking a Job, With Cookies If Necessary

Job seekers are taking unusual steps to distinguish themselves in a market with higher than 9 percent unemployment. James Meeks set up a website to catch the eye...

Navigate the Booming Computer Science Market
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Navigate the Booming Computer Science Market

Computer science students with bachelor's or master's degrees are in demand now and are expected to be for the next decade. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor...

Five Surprising It Skills That Hiring Managers Want Now
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Five Surprising It Skills That Hiring Managers Want Now

Based on employer searches of careers site Dice.com's resume database, the top five up-and-coming IT skills sought by hiring managersare iRise,  COTS (commercial...

Grad Students' Work Is Better When Teaching and Research Are Part of Mix
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Grad Students' Work Is Better When Teaching and Research Are Part of Mix

Graduate students in the STEM fields who both teach and conduct research demonstrate greater ability to generate testable hypotheses and design experiments than...

Office Aftershock: Consequences of Co-Worker Rudeness Are Far-Reaching
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Office Aftershock: Consequences of Co-Worker Rudeness Are Far-Reaching

A co-worker's rudeness can have a great impact on relationships far beyond the workplace, according to a Baylor University study published online in the Journal...

Researchers to Demo and Deploy Disaster Communications System
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Researchers to Demo and Deploy Disaster Communications System

Communication systems can be overwhelmed by a disaster, leaving people without phones and Internet connectivity when they need them most. Now Georgia Tech researchers...

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It Jobs Thriving Despite Lackluster Economy

Even in a tough labor market, IT is where the jobs are. The unemployment rate for technology jobs was 3.3% in June, compared with a 9.2% unemployment rate overall...

Women's Quest for Romance Conflicts with Scientific Pursuits
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Women's Quest for Romance Conflicts with Scientific Pursuits

Four new studies by researchers at the University at Buffalo have found that when a woman's goal is to be romantically desirable, she distances herself from academic...
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