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Nsa Job Post For 'civil Liberties & Privacy Officer' Goes Live
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Nsa Job Post For 'civil Liberties & Privacy Officer' Goes Live

The U.S. National Security Agency has posted an ad for a "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer," offering critics of the NSA a well-nigh irresistible chance to play...

Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code
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Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code

J. Paul Gibson began to teach programming classes for teens out of frustration.

Rising to the STEM Challenge
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Rising to the STEM Challenge

As many as 3 million jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics could go unfilled in the United States by 2018 because there are not enough highly...

Computer Science Major Ranks No. 8 For Salary Potential
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Computer Science Major Ranks No. 8 For Salary Potential

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degrees are among the college degrees with the highest earning potential, according to PayScale's College Salary...

The Itunes of Higher Education
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The Itunes of Higher Education

It's nearly impossible to get into MIT, very expensive to enroll there, and exceedingly hard to graduate, which are some of the reasons why MIT degrees are so coveted...

Forget Moocs
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Forget Moocs

For a year or two there, free online classes seemed like they just might be the future of higher education.

Cryptographers Have an Ethics Problem
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Cryptographers Have an Ethics Problem

Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.

Taiwan Chip Industry Powers the Tech World, but Struggles For Status
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Taiwan Chip Industry Powers the Tech World, but Struggles For Status

Tien Wu, chief operating officer of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, has a problem: the brightest young people in Taiwan do not want to work in the island’s...

As Demand For Big Data Analysts Grows, Schools Rush to Graduate Students with Necessary Skills
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As Demand For Big Data Analysts Grows, Schools Rush to Graduate Students with Necessary Skills

Two or three of the students recently completed undergraduate degrees in finance or economics. Others hail from backgrounds in information technology or marketing...

The Boy Genius of ­lan Bator
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The Boy Genius of ­lan Bator

Days before I was to meet Battushig Myanganbayar at his home in Mongolia, he sent me an e-mail with a modest request: Would I bring him a pair of tiny XBee wireless...

In Silicon Valley Start-Up World, Pedigree Counts
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In Silicon Valley Start-Up World, Pedigree Counts

When asked to name the most notable rags-to-riches entrepreneur that his firm has funded, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz doesn't hesitate: Christian Gheorghe,...

The Message Voyager 1 Carries For Alien Civilizations
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The Message Voyager 1 Carries For Alien Civilizations

The year was 1977.

Crowdgrader Brings Crowdsourcing to the Task of Grading Homework
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Crowdgrader Brings Crowdsourcing to the Task of Grading Homework

CrowdGrader, a new crowdsourcing tool developed by UC Santa Cruz computer scientists, allows students to submit their homework online and then distributes it anonymously...

Google and Edx Create a Mooc Site For the Rest of US
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Google and Edx Create a Mooc Site For the Rest of US

Google and edX, a nonprofit joint venture founded by Harvard and MIT, are collaborating to create MOOC.org, a spinoff website in which users can sign up for a massive...

STEM Education Policy Fellowship Announced
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STEM Education Policy Fellowship Announced

The American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, will send science advisors to Washington...

The Nsa Sponsors 'cyber Operations' Training at ­niversities. Here's What Students Learn.
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The Nsa Sponsors 'cyber Operations' Training at ­niversities. Here's What Students Learn.

Last week, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh became one of the latest—and most prestigious—schools to partner with the National Security Agency on a program...

Nsa Announces Four New Schools For Cyber Initiative
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Nsa Announces Four New Schools For Cyber Initiative

Four new schools have been selected for the National Security Agency's National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program, which was designed to...

Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions

The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...

The New Era of Toy Robotics
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The New Era of Toy Robotics

In olden times, the most an ambitious young tinkerer could hope for in a toy was to be able to stick one funny-shaped piece onto another. Kids built airplanes with...

MOOC Spells New Skills for Job Seekers, Can Fill Gaps
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MOOC Spells New Skills for Job Seekers, Can Fill Gaps

Companies struggling to fill high-tech jobs are considering expanding their applicant pool by tapping people trained in massive open online courses (MOOCs).
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