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Roosevelt Island: New York's New Tech Hub
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Roosevelt Island: New York's New Tech Hub

In a sliver of land in New York City's East River, where a lunatic asylum and smallpox hospital once stood, banners proclaim with unabashed assurance (or chutzpah)...

Columbia ­niversity Creates Data Sciences Institute
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Columbia ­niversity Creates Data Sciences Institute

As part of its Applied Sciences NYC Initiative, New York City will assist Columbia University's plan to create a world-class center for data sciences and engineering...

Ten-Year-Old Problem in Theoretical Computer Science Falls
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Ten-Year-Old Problem in Theoretical Computer Science Falls

Computer scientists have finally answered the question of whether whether shared entanglement between the provers in multiprover interactive proof systems weaken...

Google Science Fair Answers and Raises Questions
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Google Science Fair Answers and Raises Questions

Here's what a successful scientist looks like: Sabera Talukder is standing in an elegantly lighted hall at Google, surrounded by peers from around the world, explaining...

Startup's Software Simulates Wireless Environments
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Startup's Software Simulates Wireless Environments

A Tennessee company, Networcsim, has licensed software from Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will help industries install wireless networks more cost-effectively...

Are Social Media Making the Resume Obsolete?
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Are Social Media Making the Resume Obsolete?

Social networking sites such as Facebook are starting to replace the paper resume as the primary way for professional workers to attract the attention of recruiters...

­niversities Invited to Train Cyber Spooks
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­niversities Invited to Train Cyber Spooks

The British government is hoping to shore up its defenses against cybercrime through post-graduate training, and has asked universities to apply for funding to...

Visualization Tool Analyzes Large-Scale Data Sets
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Visualization Tool Analyzes Large-Scale Data Sets

A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute has developed a software tool that enables users to perform in-depth analysis of modeling and simulation...

­niversity Researchers Are Designing, Building Robotic Manta Ray
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­niversity Researchers Are Designing, Building Robotic Manta Ray

Stingrays and manta rays are among nature's most elegant swimmers. Researchers at four universities are trying to emulate the seemingly effortless but powerful...

Cell Phone Screener Identifies Women With Anemia in the Developing World
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Cell Phone Screener Identifies Women With Anemia in the Developing World

Biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University have invented a way to use cell phones in developing nations to identify pregnant women with dangerous...

Card Game Lets Players Try Their Hand at Computer Security
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Card Game Lets Players Try Their Hand at Computer Security

A new card game developed by University of Washington computer scientists gives teenage and young-adult players a taste of what it means to be a computer-security...

Edx Adds Uc Berkeley, Opens Fall Registration
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Edx Adds Uc Berkeley, Opens Fall Registration

UC Berkeley joins edX, Harvard and MIT's not-for-profit online-learning collaborative. Course offerings in public health, computer science, and solid-state chemistry...

Would You Recommend Your Kid Go Into IT?
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Would You Recommend Your Kid Go Into IT?

Anyone considering a future career in IT should ask themself certain questions. What part of IT are you most interested in? And what type of career are you looking...

Six Job-Hunting Tricks For a Web 2.0 World
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Six Job-Hunting Tricks For a Web 2.0 World

Approximately 53% of IT workers are actively or passively searching for a new job, according to a Computerworld survey. With employers advertising fewer open positions...

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Wanted: Temp Attorneys With Foreign-Language Skills

Unemployed lawyers looking for work in a lousy job market might want to brush up on their Korean or Chinese.

College Degrees, Designed By the Numbers
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College Degrees, Designed By the Numbers

Colleges are starting to tap opportunities inherent in big data, using insights mined from information about students' performance to tailor courses and degrees...

Will Wright Wants to Make a Game Out of Life Itself
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Will Wright Wants to Make a Game Out of Life Itself

For almost 30 years, Will Wright’s creations have attracted people who would never have played videogames. He's also managed the trick of developing games that...

Printed Photonic Crystal Mirrors Shrink On-Chip Lasers
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Printed Photonic Crystal Mirrors Shrink On-Chip Lasers

Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections...

Radiation Damage Bigger Problem in Microelectronics Than Previously Thought
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Radiation Damage Bigger Problem in Microelectronics Than Previously Thought

The amount of damage that radiation causes in electronic materials may be at least 10 times greater than previously thought, according to findings based on a  new...

Got the Next Great Idea?
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Got the Next Great Idea?

Everyone, it seems, has an app or a genius idea for one. Credit the lackluster job market plus facile tools and technology—no Ph.D. in programming required—for...
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