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One in Five Online Scholarly Articles Affected By 'reference Rot'
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One in Five Online Scholarly Articles Affected By 'reference Rot'

Vanishing web pages make revisiting original references more difficult and undermine the long-term integrity of online scholarly records.

Study Identifies Common Elements of STEM Schools
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Study Identifies Common Elements of STEM Schools

STEM schools vary in many ways, but they share eight major common elements, according to a study of 23 U.S.-based STEM schools conducted by the University of Chicago's...

Microsoft in the Age of Satya Nadella
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Microsoft in the Age of Satya Nadella

On a campus notable for tight security and secret offices, Building 92 is a rare beacon of openness. Guests can enter without a Microsoft ID and browse corporate...

How the Home Telephone Sparked the ­ser-Centered Design Revolution
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How the Home Telephone Sparked the ­ser-Centered Design Revolution

Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door's height, instead of right in the middle? Or why a washing machine is...

Astrobiologist Aims to Make Science Education More Interactive
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Astrobiologist Aims to Make Science Education More Interactive

I remember battling sleepiness as I slouched in a large lecture hall, squinting to make out the writing on the blackboard during my freshman introductory physics...

Telling Stories Using Computer Science
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Telling Stories Using Computer Science

MIT senior Shannon Kao's knack for storytelling informs her research in computer graphics.

10 Cool Network and Computing Research Projects
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10 Cool Network and Computing Research Projects

If you think the latest enterprise and consumer network and computer technologies rolling into your data center and being snuck into your offices by end users are...

Degree-Free It: Can College-Skippers Thrive in Tech?
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Degree-Free It: Can College-Skippers Thrive in Tech?


Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are For Hire Online
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Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are For Hire Online

A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website.

Theoretical Physicist Works at the Intersection of Art and Science
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Theoretical Physicist Works at the Intersection of Art and Science

Ágnes Mócsy, a theoretical physicist and tenured associate professor at Pratt Institute, the prestigious art and design university, is an advocate for big science...

New Research Indicates Cybersecurity Skills Shortage Will Be a Big Problem in 2015
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New Research Indicates Cybersecurity Skills Shortage Will Be a Big Problem in 2015

The lack of enough cybersecurity professionals could be a major problem for many organizations in 2015, according to new research by the Massachusetts-based Enterprise...

A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
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A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers

Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.

Watson Goes to College
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Watson Goes to College

Students in Ashok Goel's Computational Creativity class at Georgia Tech are enjoying extraordinary access to IBM's Watson supercomputer this semester.

''born at the Right Time': How Kid Hackers Became Cyberwarriors
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''born at the Right Time': How Kid Hackers Became Cyberwarriors

A few years ago, when Greg Martin was in his mid 20s and teaching a computer security course for NASA engineers, he stumbled on an arcane bit of information that...

E-Sports at College, With Stars and Scholarships
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E-Sports at College, With Stars and Scholarships

Loc Tran is a big man on campus at San Jose State University in Northern California.

The Anti-Plagiarism Machine
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The Anti-Plagiarism Machine

Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.

Compugirls: Young Women Have Role to Play in Technology Field
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Compugirls: Young Women Have Role to Play in Technology Field

CompuGirls is an NSF-funded organization based at Arizona State University that provides girls aged eight to 12 from under-resourced schools with activities to...

Women in Tech: Change the Conversation
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Women in Tech: Change the Conversation

At the G20 Summit-sponsored Women in Leadership conference in Brisbane, Australia in November, leaders pledged to reduce the gender gap in workforce participation...

­niversities Push Harder Into Realm of Startups
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­niversities Push Harder Into Realm of Startups

Universities are stepping up efforts to create "spinouts," or business startups born from some of the cutting-edge research of their students or faculty.

Fsu Program to Address Growing Demand For Drone Operators
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Fsu Program to Address Growing Demand For Drone Operators

Florida State University is set to launch a new program that will have students excited about their instructors droning on and on. A new course, Introduction to...
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