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The Online Maze of Job Applications
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The Online Maze of Job Applications

Applying to jobs online is like navigating a maze. To better understand the process, applications were submitted for 250 engineering/product focused jobs at a mix...

China Is Suffering a Brain Drain, But Few Are Emigrating to America
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China Is Suffering a Brain Drain, But Few Are Emigrating to America

Tech professionals are leaving China to escape political oppression, bleak economic prospects, and often grueling work cultures, but the number emigrating to the...

Is AI Lying? Researchers Built An LLM Lie Detector to Find Out
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Is AI Lying? Researchers Built An LLM Lie Detector to Find Out

Researchers have built what they call a lie detector that can identify falsehoods in the output of large language models simply by asking a series of unrelated...

Can Generative AI Solve Computer Science's Greatest Unsolved Problem?
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Can Generative AI Solve Computer Science's Greatest Unsolved Problem?

Does P = NP? That question, a grand theoretical challenge, has resisted a convincing answer despite decades of intense study. Now, the effort has enlisted the help...

China's Labor Force Is Feeling the Strain
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China's Labor Force Is Feeling the Strain

"Involution," which refers to China's hyper-competitive work culture and crushing labor expectations, has gained traction with elite students and younger white-collar...

Show, Don't Tell: Attracting A Diverse Workforce
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Show, Don't Tell: Attracting A Diverse Workforce

A published study of messaging by companies and organizations about diversity and inclusion as part of employee recruitment efforts found that activating signals...

World University Rankings 2023: Computer Science
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World University Rankings 2023: Computer Science

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 ranks computer science programs at 974 universities in 76 countries. Five schools in the top 10 are in...

Tech Layoffs Are All But A Thing of the Past
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Tech Layoffs Are All But A Thing of the Past

Layoffs in the technology industry have slowed sharply in recent months, bringing the number of jobs lost to tech's efficiency push to a near stop.

Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries
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Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries

The IEEE-USA 2023 Salary and Benefits Survey indicates U.S. engineering salary growth lagged inflation for the second consecutive year, marking the first multiyear...

Diverse Leadership: Whose Responsibility Is It?
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Diverse Leadership: Whose Responsibility Is It?

Both individuals and organizations must challenge the patriarchal belief systems that perpetuate homogeneity in the tech sector, pipeline, and leadership, says...

Crunchtime for Coders
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Crunchtime for Coders

Fueled by Red Bull and pizza, nearly 300 students from across the U.S. gathered for HopHacks, a sleepless 36-hour weekend coding marathon at Johns Hopkins University...

Computer Science Is No Longer the Safe Major
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Computer Science Is No Longer the Safe Major

Software engineers, more than any other American workers, believe that generative AI will have a major impact on their jobs over the next 20 years.

Towards Affective Computing That Works for Everyone
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Towards Affective Computing That Works for Everyone

Affective computing systems trained on currently available datasets will likely have biases because they derive from limited samples that do not fully represent...

China Surpasses U.S. In Global Scientific 'Hot Papers' Ranking
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China Surpasses U.S. In Global Scientific 'Hot Papers' Ranking

China has surpassed the United States with the number of scientific papers published and cited in the world's most influential journals, according to statistical...

Stark Disparity Seen In CEO, Typical Worker Pay Increases
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Stark Disparity Seen In CEO, Typical Worker Pay Increases

CEO compensation at the top 350 U.S. firms dipped in 2022 but remains enormous compared with the pay of other, even highly compensated workers, according to a report...

The Great Retraining: IT Upskills for The Future
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The Great Retraining: IT Upskills for The Future

Companies are finding that robust IT training programs gives career advancement opportunities to workers and helps organizations develop technology skills in the...

Group Wants to Create An Open Standard for Accelerator Programming
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Group Wants to Create An Open Standard for Accelerator Programming

The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation, a group of companies whose goal is to deliver "an open standard accelerator...

Study Finds That Chatbots Rival Humans in Creative Thinking
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Study Finds That Chatbots Rival Humans in Creative Thinking

A study that compared the creativity of humans with three current AI chatbots found that the chatbots on average outperformed human participants, though not the...

What Silicon Valley 'Gets' About Software Engineers That Traditional Companies Do Not
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What Silicon Valley 'Gets' About Software Engineers That Traditional Companies Do Not

Silicon Valley-like companies consistently "get" a few things about software engineers that result in faster innovation and better professional growth for engineers...

Research Getting Buried? Change How You Write
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Research Getting Buried? Change How You Write

Better writing skills can go a long way in making your academic research paper stand out.
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