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The Education of Google's Larry Page
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The Education of Google's Larry Page

Larry Page is surrounded.

Computer Science For the Rest of ­S
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Computer Science For the Rest of ­S

Reading, writing, and—refactoring code?

The Biggest Obstacle to Embracing Big Data? You
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The Biggest Obstacle to Embracing Big Data? You

The technological hurdles to embracing big data are well-known at this point—McKinsey & Co. predicted a shortage of nearly 200,000 skilled data analysts by 2018—but...

A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet
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A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet

The market for online classes in programming, Web construction, and application development is booming.  

Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.
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Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.

AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, "I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart." That, he figured, would help him "discover things like time machines, robots...

NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images
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NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images

One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students...

Startups Aim to Make Coding Fun
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Startups Aim to Make Coding Fun

For Jacob Arriola, a business development manager for a Spanish media company in Los Angeles, learning to program wasn't a necessity. But figuring it might help...

The Robots Are Coming! Better Get Used to It
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The Robots Are Coming! Better Get Used to It

For those of you reluctant to welcome our new robot overloads, it might be time to reconsider your stance.

Report Reveals Google's Strong Position vs. Facebook in Mobile App Wars
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Report Reveals Google's Strong Position vs. Facebook in Mobile App Wars

A new Appcelerator/IDC survey shows that mobile developers view Google and its broad range of assets as key to implementing their social strategies in 2012. The...

Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here
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Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here

A recent Computerworld survey of 357 IT professionals found that 46 percent of respondents are noticing a shortage of Cobol programmers, and 50 percent said the...

Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness
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Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness

Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional...

Computer System Predicts Kentucky to Win Ncaa Tournament
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Computer System Predicts Kentucky to Win Ncaa Tournament

Georgia Tech's Logistic Regression Markov Chain method has a history of accuracy as a predictor of the men's NCAA basketball tournament. It predicts this year's...

Computer Simulations Help Explain Why HIV Cure Remains Elusive
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Computer Simulations Help Explain Why HIV Cure Remains Elusive

Australian research scientist Jack da Silva used computer simulations to discover that a human immunodeficiency virus, even at an early phase of infection, evolves...

Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus
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Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus

High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck...

Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+
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Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+

Andy Hertzfeld was ready to retire back in 2009, following a momentous 30-year plus career where he worked side by side with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to design...

Hail to the Geeks
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Hail to the Geeks

Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...

An App That Helps You Cozy ­p to Strangers
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An App That Helps You Cozy ­p to Strangers

Paul Davison is in a hurry. Not just to board the plane that's about to take him to his father's retirement party in San Diego, or to get through the talking points...

Two Asteroids Named After Unix Co-Creators
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Two Asteroids Named After Unix Co-Creators

Two small asteroids now bear the names of two towering figures in computing history, Unix inventors Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge
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Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge

The Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, sponsored by DARPA and NASA, and run by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, TopCoder, and Aurora Flight Sciences...

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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers

As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...
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