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Stanford Teams With City College (think Engineering School)

In the chess match to determine which university will get a chance to build a graduate school of applied sciences on public land in New York City, Stanford is...

Women and Technology an Untapped Part of Economy
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Women and Technology an Untapped Part of Economy

More than 150 years after Ada Lovelace paved the way for the world's first computer program, Patrice Braun is working on the international stage to close the gap...

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Patent Lawyer Demand Rises Following ­.s. Legislative Overhaul

 Patent attorneys, who typically have degrees in fields such as engineering as well as law, are in such demand that their specialty may account for more than 15...

New Data-Mining Effort Launched to Study Mental Disorders
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New Data-Mining Effort Launched to Study Mental Disorders

Chicago will be home to a new $13.75 million project that will apply data mining methods to better understand the genetic and environmental factors behind neuropsychiatric...

­c Santa Cruz Grads Turn Senior Project Into Game Design Company
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­c Santa Cruz Grads Turn Senior Project Into Game Design Company

A new iPad game called Syz: EG, now available from Apple's App Store, showcases the professional quality of the work done by UC Santa Cruz students in the school's...

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How Many Security Clearances Have Been Issued?

More than 4.2 million people have security clearances for access to classified information, a number that vastly outstrips previous estimates and nearly rivals...

Non-Compete Agreements Create 'career Detours'
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Non-Compete Agreements Create 'career Detours'

A new study by an MIT professor shows that non-compete agreements come with a high cost for employees: When those workers shift jobs, roughly one-third end up...

From Doom to Rage: 20 Years of Id Development
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From Doom to Rage: 20 Years of Id Development

Both Tim Willits and Matt Hooper got their start in game design as fans, creating maps for id Software games like Doom and Quake. Now, as the studio celebrates...

End of Fermilab's Tevatron Evokes Memories, Pride
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End of Fermilab's Tevatron Evokes Memories, Pride

The Tevatron particle accelerator which generated high-energy collisions at Fermilab for 28 years was shut down for the last time on Sept. 30.

WPI's Robotics Engineering Program Receives Accreditation
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WPI's Robotics Engineering Program Receives Accreditation

Four years after the launching a robotics engineering program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute is the only university in the United States with bachelor's, master's...

The Next Generation of Technology
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The Next Generation of Technology

Selecting Technology Review's yearly list of 35 innovators under the age of 35 is a difficult but rewarding process. We search for candidates around the world...

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IT Inferno: The Nine Circles of IT Hell

Spend enough time in the tech industry, and you'll eventually find yourself in IT hell—one not unlike the underworld described by Dante in his "Divine Comedy."...

Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators
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Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators

President Obama last month named five inventors as recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and seven eminent researchers as recipients of...

Cmu's Brumley Receives Prestigious Pecase Award For Cybersecurity Research
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Cmu's Brumley Receives Prestigious Pecase Award For Cybersecurity Research

Carnegie Mellon University's David Brumley has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government...

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The ­niversity of Wherever

For more than a decade educators have been expecting the Internet to transform that bastion of tradition and authority, the university. Digital utopians have...

MentorNet Opens Its Doors to Students from All Campuses
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MentorNet Opens Its Doors to Students from All Campuses

To encourage more students to work with mentors during their academic careers, MentorNet is making it easier for any student with an .EDU email address to find...

How to Build a Stellar Team at a High-Potential Startup
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How to Build a Stellar Team at a High-Potential Startup

Startups face the challenge of recruiting world-class talent at a time when there is a war for talent within the technology world. Even startups with an impressive...

Ready For the Robot Revolution?
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Ready For the Robot Revolution?

Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...

How Rapidly Expanding Storage Spurs Innovation
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How Rapidly Expanding Storage Spurs Innovation

Moore's Law gets all the press. It's easy to present even to non-technical readers, and the way it's most often expressed is something like, "computers double...

'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians
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'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians

The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...
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