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Cio Career Killer: Lack of Influence
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Cio Career Killer: Lack of Influence

Many IT leaders find themselves marginalized within their own organizations. The reason is because they lack the influence they need with their peers, stakeholders...

App Developers, Systems Analysts Top Most-Demanded IT Jobs: Monster
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App Developers, Systems Analysts Top Most-Demanded IT Jobs: Monster

What IT skill sets are most in demand? Recent data from jobs Website Monster.com shows the occupations in greatest demand by employers range from computer systems...

Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise
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Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise

Rodney C. Adkins oversees 50,000 employees and is responsible for $18 billion in revenue as senior vice president and group executive for systems and technology...

Future Tech Jobs: We Need Social Science Graduates
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Future Tech Jobs: We Need Social Science Graduates

With interconnectivity at the heart of the social Web, forward-looking technology companies are now embracing the idea of hiring more social science graduates to...

An Interview with Peter Denning: The End of the Future
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An Interview with Peter Denning: The End of the Future

In a comprehensive Q&A, Peter Denning, the editor-in-chief of Ubiquity, offers his thoughts on the future of computer science and discusses the art of making predictions...

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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...

Camp Preps Teens For Cybersecurity Careers
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Camp Preps Teens For Cybersecurity Careers

The Community College of Baltimore County this month held a five-day cybersecurity camp for teenagers in an effort to get high school students interested in security...

Fears Rise in It Circles Over New Economic Downturn
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Fears Rise in It Circles Over New Economic Downturn

After months of gains, there are new worries that the U.S. economic recovery is in trouble. "There is a palpable sense of a slowdown or less of a recovery over...

Nsf Funds $18.5 Million Effort to Create Mind-Machine Interface
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Nsf Funds $18.5 Million Effort to Create Mind-Machine Interface

The NSF  has announced an $18.5 million grant to establish an Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering based at the University of Washington...

Xbox Kinect Helps Surgeons in the Operating Room
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Xbox Kinect Helps Surgeons in the Operating Room

Doctors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Canada are using the Xbox Kinect to examine and manipulate CT  images during surgery, sidestepping the need to...

Nsf Project Will Digitize ­.s.'s Biological Collections
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Nsf Project Will Digitize ­.s.'s Biological Collections

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to Florida State University and the University of Florida to coordinate 92 institutions...

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...

Professor Tweets Her Way to Knighthood
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Professor Tweets Her Way to Knighthood

The creative use of Twitter and other technology to teach and promote French has earned University of South Carolina Professor Lara Lomicka Anderson knighthood...

You Want to Talk 'horrible Bosses'?
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You Want to Talk 'horrible Bosses'?

Virtually anyone who stays in the work force long enough will eventually have a really lousy boss. Millions of Americans have tense relationships with their managers...

Attachment to Cellphones More About Entertainment, Less About Communication
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Attachment to Cellphones More About Entertainment, Less About Communication

That panicked feeling you get when the family pet goes missing is the same when you misplace your mobile phone, says a Kansas State University marketing professor...

Most States Do a Poor Job Preparing Students For Science or Technology Degrees
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Most States Do a Poor Job Preparing Students For Science or Technology Degrees

New rankings show that K-12 schools in most of the 50 states are doing a poor job of preparing students for science and engineering careers. Massachusetts leads...

At Mature Techs, A Young Vibe
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At Mature Techs, A Young Vibe

The largest technology companies, from IBM to Microsoft to Hewlett-Packard, are ramping up efforts to attract the best and brightest at America's top campuses....

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Yes, Researchers Say
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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Yes, Researchers Say

According to Babson College researchers, there is overwhelming evidence that taking two or more core entrepreneurship elective courses positively influenced students'...

Overseas Tech Firms Ramp ­p Hiring in Silicon Valley
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Overseas Tech Firms Ramp ­p Hiring in Silicon Valley

European and Asian companies are increasingly using high-tech workers from Silicon Valley to conduct long-range research and help design new products for global...

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...
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