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Immigrants Are Crucial to Innovation, Study Says
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Immigrants Are Crucial to Innovation, Study Says

Arguing against immigration policies that force foreign-born innovators to leave the United States, a new study to be released on Tuesday shows that immigrants...

Nokia Late to the Silicon Valley Party
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Nokia Late to the Silicon Valley Party

Nokia Corp. is hitting the reset button on its U.S. operations from a place some would argue the struggling Finnish handset maker should have been years ago: Silicon...

For Minority College Students, STEM Degrees Pay Big
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For Minority College Students, STEM Degrees Pay Big

Degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math are associated with 25 to 50 percent higher earnings for minority college students, with Latino grads the...

Computer Science Students Develop Smartphone Apps to Aid Visually Impaired
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Computer Science Students Develop Smartphone Apps to Aid Visually Impaired

A group of computer science students at Drexel University worked with students from the Overbrook School for the Blind to develop a set of smartphone apps. The...

Four Elite CIOs Share Lessons
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Four Elite CIOs Share Lessons

A recent panel at the annual meeting of ACM's Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems included four chief information officers, who shared real...

College Faculty Have Reservations About Online Learning, Survey Shows
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College Faculty Have Reservations About Online Learning, Survey Shows

College and university faculty members are more pessimistic than optimistic about online education and remain far more skeptical about learning outcomes in online...

New Grad Looking For a Job? Pentagon Contractors Post Openings For Black-Hat Hackers
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New Grad Looking For a Job? Pentagon Contractors Post Openings For Black-Hat Hackers

Mikko Hypponen enjoys his position as the chief research officer at the Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure. He has no intention of leaving. But lately, he's...

­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes
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­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes

The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and...

Soldiers Becoming Scientists
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Soldiers Becoming Scientists

Proposed in 2007 and enacted in 2008, the newest version of the U.S. military's veterans education program—variously known as the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the Webb GI...

In the Afghan War, a Little Robot Can Be a Soldier's Best Friend
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In the Afghan War, a Little Robot Can Be a Soldier's Best Friend

The 310 SUGV is a distant cousin of the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner currently being promoted as a Father's Day gift. In Afghanistan, the Marines call him...

H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B
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H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B

For Silicon Valley, a day of ritual disappointment came on June 12: The U.S. announced that the slots for 2013 H-1B visas had all been filled.

Mit, Intel ­nveil New Initiatives Addressing 'big Data'
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Mit, Intel ­nveil New Initiatives Addressing 'big Data'

MIT has been selected from among 55 institutions that submitted 157 proposals to host a new Intel research center that will concentrate on what's come to be called...

Aging Microsoft Lures Young Tech Idealists
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Aging Microsoft Lures Young Tech Idealists

The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business, and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer...

Sandia Opens Cyber Research Facility
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Sandia Opens Cyber Research Facility

Sandia National Laboratories' new Cybersecurity Technologies Research Laboratory offers an open yet controlled area for cybersecurity professionals to meet and...

IBM Partners With Syracuse University to Tap Next-Gen Mainframe Workers
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IBM Partners With Syracuse University to Tap Next-Gen Mainframe Workers

IBM announced a partnership with Syracuse University to help college students build smarter computing skills to manage both traditional and new systems in large...

Fixing the Gender Gap in Tech
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Fixing the Gender Gap in Tech

Women continue to lag behind men in computer science, where their share of the workforce has actually declined over the past 25 years.

How To Fix the Gender Gap in Technology
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How To Fix the Gender Gap in Technology

The United States has produced viable female presidential candidates, women athletes who command millions of dollars in endorsements, and the first female Nobel...

Revenge of the Nerds: Tech Firms Scour College Campuses for Talent
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Revenge of the Nerds: Tech Firms Scour College Campuses for Talent

On college campuses these days, the top nerds are getting a taste of what it's like to be star jocks.

Cybersecurity Experts Needed to Meet Growing Demand
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Cybersecurity Experts Needed to Meet Growing Demand

Demand for cybersecurity professionals far outweighs supply, with the U.S. government needing to hire at least 10,000 experts in the near future and the private...

Software Screening Raises Bar for Hiring
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Software Screening Raises Bar for Hiring

In an essay in this newspaper last fall, Peter Cappelli, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, challenged...
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