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The Brains Behind Research on the Brain
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The Brains Behind Research on the Brain

While studying physics and electrical engineering as an MIT undergraduate in the late 1990s, Mehmet Fatih Yanik managed to avoid taking any biology classes until...

Bringing Big Data to Business Schools
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Bringing Big Data to Business Schools

The University of Iowa has established one of the first majors helping undergraduates learn analytics and data management, one of the fastest growing segments...

Professors Help Practitioners Decipher 'Big Data'
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Professors Help Practitioners Decipher 'Big Data'

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has new ways to help marketing practitioners find the narrative in 'Big Data' numbers and articulate their...

Want to Be a Professor? Choose Math
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Want to Be a Professor? Choose Math

Are you an aspiring scientist with quantitative chops and a strong desire for a faculty career?

The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America Is Losing Its High-Tech Talent
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The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America Is Losing Its High-Tech Talent

Vivek Wadhwa of Duke University questions the claim that competition from high-tech guest workers in the United States is keeping domestic workers' wages low...

New Ways to Teach Math and Engage More Students in STEM Studies
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New Ways to Teach Math and Engage More Students in STEM Studies

Experts will discuss new research that challenges traditional approaches and ideas in presentations at the American Psychological Association's 121st Annual Convention...

Big Data Analysis Adds to Guest Worker Debate
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Big Data Analysis Adds to Guest Worker Debate

Although certain kinds of engineers are in short supply in the United States, plenty of potential candidates exist for thousands of positions for which companies...

Hey Kids! Learn to Be "cyber Smart” from the Nsa's Youth Page!
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Hey Kids! Learn to Be "cyber Smart” from the Nsa's Youth Page!

The National Security Agency wants your kids to know that it's cool to be "cyber smart."

E-Book Vs. P-Book
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E-Book Vs. P-Book

When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning...

Congressional Panels Dump on STEM Reshuffling Plan
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Congressional Panels Dump on STEM Reshuffling Plan

Several congressional panels have rejected the Obama administration's plan to significantly realign the federal government's $3-billion annual budget for programs...

Education Online: The Virtual Lab
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Education Online: The Virtual Lab

The academic world is in upheaval over MOOCs: massive open online courses that make university lectures available to tens of thousands of students at a time.

Bill Gates on the Future of Education, Programming, and Just About Everything Else
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Bill Gates on the Future of Education, Programming, and Just About Everything Else

At Microsoft's recent Faculty Summit, Bill Gates expressed his views on a range of topics, including education, patents, computer science, and machine learning....

Rensselaer To Train U.S. Navy Officers in IT and Web Sciences
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Rensselaer To Train U.S. Navy Officers in IT and Web Sciences

The U.S. Navy is turning to the Information Technology and Web Science Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to prepare a select group of U.S. Navy officers...

Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning
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Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning

Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...

The Demanding Off-Hour Escapes of China's High-Tech Workers
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The Demanding Off-Hour Escapes of China's High-Tech Workers

The hottest nightclub in this factory town is a neon-encrusted dive down the road from the industrial park where iPhones are made 24 hours a day.

Hugh Herr and the Liberating Age of Bionics
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Hugh Herr and the Liberating Age of Bionics

"It's extraordinary that we live in this day and age with all our wonderful modern technology, and still we have shoes that give us blisters," says Hugh Herr, with...

Beijing's Great Leap Forward
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Beijing's Great Leap Forward

Cities all over the world have tried to duplicate Silicon Valley's prowess at churning out startups and multibillion-dollar technology companies. But only one has...

In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
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In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal

Q. How is Big Data being used more in the leadership and management field? 

Britain Battles to Build Tech Giant As Home-Grown Talent Goes West
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Britain Battles to Build Tech Giant As Home-Grown Talent Goes West

East London's technology hub is established well beyond start-up status: Thousands of new Web firms now work in the offices around Old Street and on any given day...

This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
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This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds

There was a time when Melody Meckfessel juggled two wardrobes: one for one Google, and one for the rest of her life.
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