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Beyond Classic Brain Illustrations That Make ­S Drool
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Beyond Classic Brain Illustrations That Make ­S Drool

I threw down a bit of a challenge last month at the Association of Medical Illustrators Conference in Minnesota.

Founder of America's Biggest Hacker Conference: 'we ­nderstand the Threat Now'
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Founder of America's Biggest Hacker Conference: 'we ­nderstand the Threat Now'

For one weekend every year, thousands of the world’s best—or worst, depending on your point of view—hackers meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, for Defcon.

Alternative STEM Programs Offer Early Career Prep For Students
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Alternative STEM Programs Offer Early Career Prep For Students

The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program's Summer Bridge program included more than 20 high school students who took college-level math courses and interned...

Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley
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Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley

Sam Altman sits behind his desk with his knees pulled up to his chest, eating dried apricots.

Spaceflight 101
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Spaceflight 101

Clayton Anderson, a retired NASA astronaut, worked with Iowa State aerospace engineers to develop a prototype workshop in spaceflight operations. The goal is to...

Where Tech Is Taking ­s: A Conversation With Intel's Genevieve Bell
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Where Tech Is Taking ­s: A Conversation With Intel's Genevieve Bell

Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.

Lack of Coding Skills May Lead to Skills Shortage in Europe
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Lack of Coding Skills May Lead to Skills Shortage in Europe

A lack of basic coding skills could result in Europe facing a shortage of up to 900,000 information and computer technology professionals by 2020, according to...

What 6.9 Million Clicks Tell ­S About How to Fix Online Education
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What 6.9 Million Clicks Tell ­S About How to Fix Online Education

Researchers at the MIT have analyzed data from Harvard University and MIT's shared online learning platform to gain a richer understanding of what makes massively...

Finally, a Way to Teach Coding to the Touchscreen Generation
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Finally, a Way to Teach Coding to the Touchscreen Generation

First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation.

Why Many Programmers Don't Bother Joining the ACM
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Why Many Programmers Don't Bother Joining the ACM

Earlier this month Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol and current Google vice president, openly asked professional programmers for feedback regarding...

Data Visualization Challenge Lets Students Portray Data in Innovative Ways
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Data Visualization Challenge Lets Students Portray Data in Innovative Ways

Thirteen teams participated in the first University of Chicago Data Visualization Challenge, a competition to create insightful, novel, and well-designed visual...

Scratchjr: Coding For Kindergarten
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Scratchjr: Coding For Kindergarten

Can children learn to code at the same age they're learning to tie their shoes? That's the idea behind ScratchJr, a free iPad app developed by researchers at the...

There's No Flying in Drone School
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There's No Flying in Drone School

Welcome to drone school.

When Robots Come For Our Jobs, Will We Be Ready to Outsmart Them?
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When Robots Come For Our Jobs, Will We Be Ready to Outsmart Them?

Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human...

Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body
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Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body

Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.

Tech Giants Begin Recruiting For the Next Big Platform Wars
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Tech Giants Begin Recruiting For the Next Big Platform Wars

The Internet of Things is still young, but it's real.

No Guts, All Glory at Robot Soccer World Cup
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No Guts, All Glory at Robot Soccer World Cup

Spectacular falls, miraculous goals, and footwork that would put the Premier League to shame—RoboCup 2014 has seen it all.

Teaching How to Extract Reliable News from the Onslaught of Digital Information
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Teaching How to Extract Reliable News from the Onslaught of Digital Information

Stony Brook University faculty members report in a new paper their experiences teaching students how to critically vet the enormous amount of digital information...

Technical Education Program Established For Veterans
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Technical Education Program Established For Veterans

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Alameda County Workforce Investment Board, and Las Positas College recently established a 24-month academic program to...

Some ­niversities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science
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Some ­niversities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science

Just 18 percent of the computer science graduates from colleges and universities across the U.S. are women, down from 37 percent in 1985, but some schools are reporting...
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