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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...

Experts Warn of Shortage of U.s. Cyber Pros
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Experts Warn of Shortage of U.s. Cyber Pros

Leading cyber experts warned of a shortage of talented computer security experts in the United States, making it difficult to protect corporate and government networks...

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...

Developers Are Key to Winning the Tech Wars
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Developers Are Key to Winning the Tech Wars

Many smartphone manufacturers draw from the same stylebook: Make it sleek. Make it black. But what may determine the winner of the smartphone wars is the apps.

Apple vs. Google: Starkly Different China Experiences
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Apple vs. Google: Starkly Different China Experiences

In China, sometimes having the first-mover advantage is often no advantage at all. Case in point: Apple vs. Google.

Hackathons Aren't Just for Hacking
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Hackathons Aren't Just for Hacking

On the eve of Facebook's public offering, while the world obsessed over the company's market value and direction, employees gathered in their new Menlo Park headquarters...

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.

Cyberthreats Turn Into Megabucks
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Cyberthreats Turn Into Megabucks

As Congress boosts spending on cybersecurity and mulls over new data safety requirements on private industry, some companies stand to get rich.

Even Loyal Employees Become Jaded If Not Treated Well, Study Shows
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Even Loyal Employees Become Jaded If Not Treated Well, Study Shows

All businesses want "engaged" employees who are committed to the success of the company and are willing to go the extra mile. But there's a dark side as well: Engaged...

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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Apple May Be Hiring Engineers to Redesign 30-Pin Dock Connector

Apple is currently looking for a new "connector design engineer" to work at its Cupertino headquarters. Why does anyone care? The job postings lend credence to...

Steve Blank Believes Social Might Be Killing Silicon Valley
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Steve Blank Believes Social Might Be Killing Silicon Valley

Amid the buildup to the Facebook IPO, serial entrepreneur Steve Blank was sounding an ominous warning to anyone who would listen.

A Dive Into the Digital Deep
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A Dive Into the Digital Deep

When next winter's storms subside, a specialized ship will begin a slow crossing, lowering a skinny cable into its wake along a precisely prescribed path: the shortest...

The Myth of the Disconnected Telecommuter
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The Myth of the Disconnected Telecommuter

The assumption that employees who regularly telecommute will feel less attached to the organization they work for due to feeling isolated and disconnected is a...

Jonathan Ive: Simplicity Isn't Simple
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Jonathan Ive: Simplicity Isn't Simple

"Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. We don't really talk about design, we talk about developing ideas...

Coolest Jobs in Tech: Decoding Life, Touring Solar Systems
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Coolest Jobs in Tech: Decoding Life, Touring Solar Systems

Managing hardware and storage needs; building custom, in-house applications; making information accessible via the Web—such tasks are the mainstays of IT work,...

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Silicon Valley Foreign Worker Search Speeds ­p After Lull

Technology firms have tripled their recruitment of foreign workers this spring after a hiring lull of several years—a development that is reigniting the debate...

Projects Are the New Job Interviews
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Projects Are the New Job Interviews

Companies are increasingly supplanting resumes, references, brainteasers, and interviews with real-world projects, where candidates show their ability to perform...

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Silicon Valley's Data Gurus Lure Defense Customers

Silicon Valley's biggest names are betting on data gurus to analyze the fire hose of information on the Web—and it turns out that military and federal government...

Daniela Rus Named Csail Director
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Daniela Rus Named Csail Director

Daniela Rus, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the next director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial...
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