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The Painful Truth About Age Discrimination in Tech
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The Painful Truth About Age Discrimination in Tech

There are bold programmers but no old programmers. That fear-tinged saying echoes even more today among software developers, who fear the recession provides a handy...

Graduation Gaps For Science Majors
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Graduation Gaps For Science Majors

A recent University of California, Los Angeles survey found that more students are interested in majoring in science and technology fields, but those students are...

Old-Style Computers Get New Life in Developing Countries
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Old-Style Computers Get New Life in Developing Countries

Hanuman, a divine being in Hindu mythology, is well on his way to becoming a video game hero. It's all part of a project called PlayPower, co-founded by Carnegie...

Chinese, Russian Universities Claim Top Spots in Acm Programming Competition
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Chinese, Russian Universities Claim Top Spots in Acm Programming Competition

Three Chinese teams and four Russian teams dominated the top ten rankings of the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Shanghai Jiaotong...

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Seven CS Researchers Selected For Recovery Act Early Career Funds

Seven computer science researchers supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) are among 69 scientists...

Silicon Valley Tech Workers Earning Less Than in 2000
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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Earning Less Than in 2000

While some of the latest government wage data appears to show that Silicon Valley's high-tech workers are making more now than they did in 2000, a closer look at...

Revving a Career While It Is In Neutral
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Revving a Career While It Is In Neutral

With prospects for new openings or promotions still limited at many organizations, a growing number of workers are struggling to take their careers to the next...

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IT Hiring in India Outpaces U.S.

While the U.S. IT labor market is showing signs of stabilization and modest growth, it has not yet approached the rate of growth reported by India. Three of India's...

Competition Seeks to Attract More Women Into It
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Competition Seeks to Attract More Women Into It

Britain's Women in Technology has teamed up with the National IT Learning Center to introduce the Rise of the Cyberella Competition, which will provide funding...

Videogame Glitches Open the World of Computing to Students
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Videogame Glitches Open the World of Computing to Students

Why is the National Science Foundation helping Morehouse College pay students to test videogames? The school's Glitch Game Testers program is one of many NSF efforts...

Survey Reveals Ways to Enhance Teens' Interest in STEM
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Survey Reveals Ways to Enhance Teens' Interest in STEM

A recent Lemelson-MIT Invention Index survey found that teens are enthusiastic about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), with 77 percent interested...

Female Teachers Can Transfer Fear of Math and ­ndermine Girls' Math Performance
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Female Teachers Can Transfer Fear of Math and ­ndermine Girls' Math Performance

University of Chicago researchers have found that female elementary school teachers can pass on their anxiety and stereotypes about math to female students. 

Workforce Balance Boomerangs Toward Insourcing
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Workforce Balance Boomerangs Toward Insourcing

With public support from the Obama Administration, the Office of Management and Budget has a new mandate to reduce the amount of government procurement work that...

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It Skills Volatility Stabilizing, Report Finds

Volatility in market values for information technology (IT) skills  is stabilizing, despite remaining high over the past few months, Foote Partners reports. Volatility...

Colleges Look For New Ways to Help Women in Science
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Colleges Look For New Ways to Help Women in Science

Colleges have developed programs to support women in science and engineering through the use of federal grants such as those offered under the U.S. National Science...

U.s. Keeps Foreign Ph.d.s
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U.s. Keeps Foreign Ph.d.s

Most foreigners who came to the U.S. to earn doctorate degrees in science and engineering stayed on after graduation — at least until the recession began — refuting...

Connecting Women and Technology
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Connecting Women and Technology

Guest blogger Valerie Barr writes about highlights of the ninth Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, including keynote speeches by Megan Smith...

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Dream Jobs 2010

Some careers proceed evenly down a neat path. Those aren't necessarily, however, the kind of journeys that lead to dream jobs. The ten technologists in this year's...

Cybersecurity Expert Stays Creative Baking Bread
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Cybersecurity Expert Stays Creative Baking Bread

Is there a recipe a scientist might follow to spur creativity and cook up new discoveries? Cyber security expert Kevin Fu of the University of Massachusetts Amherst...

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Darpa: U.s. Geek Shortage Is National Security Risk

Sure, we’re all plugged in and online 24/7. But fewer American kids are growing up to be bona fide computer geeks. And that poses a serious security risk for the...
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