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Nyu and Stanford Receive $3 Million Nsf Grant to Develop STEM Curriculum
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Nyu and Stanford Receive $3 Million Nsf Grant to Develop STEM Curriculum

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $3 million to researchers at NYU and Stanford University to create a science curriculum for fifth graders, especially...

7 Technology Trends that Will Make or Break Many Careers
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7 Technology Trends that Will Make or Break Many Careers

No matter what field you work in, if you're hoping to get ahead in your career, you need to be mindful of technology trends.

James L. Flanagan, Who Helped Make Computers Talk, Dies at 89
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James L. Flanagan, Who Helped Make Computers Talk, Dies at 89

James L. Flanagan, whom we can thank for articulate digital assistants like Siri and intelligible subway loudspeakers and blame for the disembodied voices that...

Dartmouth Football's Brilliant Dummies
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Dartmouth Football's Brilliant Dummies

Wearing a green Dartmouth College jersey, the newest player on the school's football team readies for action during a preseason practice.

The Government Needs to Work with Silicon Valley to Create Our Military Future
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The Government Needs to Work with Silicon Valley to Create Our Military Future

In 1931, the city fathers of Sunnyvale, California, came up with a unique plan to rescue their town from the doldrums of the Great Depression.

Why Neuroscience Needs Hackers
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Why Neuroscience Needs Hackers

There was a time when neuroscientists could only dream of having such a problem.

Tech Companies Are Hiring More Liberal-Arts Majors Than You Think
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Tech Companies Are Hiring More Liberal-Arts Majors Than You Think

Silicon Valley has a reputation for being filled with egghead coders who popped out of college as brilliant engineers (or who never finished college in the first...

Social Is Dead: What 146 Startup Pitches Showed Me about the Next Wave of Tech Companies
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Social Is Dead: What 146 Startup Pitches Showed Me about the Next Wave of Tech Companies

Investing in startups is like bird-watching, or at least that's the quote from legendary venture capitalist Mike Moritz.

The Next Steve Jobs Is Going to Come From One of These 13 Surprising Schools
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The Next Steve Jobs Is Going to Come From One of These 13 Surprising Schools

Harvard and Stanford may jump to mind when it comes to tech titans. But for the next generation of entrepreneur, we may need to look outside the Ivy League.

Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations, Study Suggests
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Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations, Study Suggests

Articles with shorter titles tend to get cited more often than those with longer headers, according to a new study that examined 140,000 papers published between...

Study Identifies New Cheating Method in Moocs
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Study Identifies New Cheating Method in Moocs

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have identified a new method of cheating specific to MOOCs and recommend a number of strategies to prevent such cheating...

What Is Elegance in Science?
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What Is Elegance in Science?

In 1957, a few years after Francis Crick co-discovered the DNA double helix and a few years before he co-won a Nobel Prize for doing so, he published a paper on...

Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency
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Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency

Silicon Valley icon Lawrence Lessig knows his moonshot bid for the White House hinges on the innovation and support of the tech industry.

Nae Launches Website to Support Prek-12 Engineering Education Efforts
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Nae Launches Website to Support Prek-12 Engineering Education Efforts

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has launched a new website, LinkEngineering, intended to help PreK-12 educators in the United States implement engineering...

Programming Camp Sparks Students' Scientific Curiosity
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Programming Camp Sparks Students' Scientific Curiosity

Argonne National Laboratory hosted a summer coding camp that showed 42 Chicago-area high school students what it's like to be a STEM professional.

­pstarts Raid Giants For Talent in Silicon Valley
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­pstarts Raid Giants For Talent in Silicon Valley

For the last year, Google's work force has increasingly been under attack from a herd of unicorns.

To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
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To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird

It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.

Scarcity of Computing Talent Concerns Experts
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Scarcity of Computing Talent Concerns Experts

Software development is rapidly transforming computing technology to the benefit of society, but the scarcity of "computing talent in the pipeline" impacts the...

Hardware From Old Nuclear Weapons Systems Becomes Valuable Teaching Resource
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Hardware From Old Nuclear Weapons Systems Becomes Valuable Teaching Resource

Sandia National Laboratories is preserving the history of nuclear weapons in hardware developed since the start of the nuclear era as a way to connect new generations...

How Many Scientists Does It Take to Write a Paper? Apparently, Thousands
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How Many Scientists Does It Take to Write a Paper? Apparently, Thousands

There has been a notable spike since 2009 in the number of technical reports whose author counts exceeded 1,000 people, according to the Thomson Reuters Web of...
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