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Does Free Software Cost Jobs?
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Does Free Software Cost Jobs?

Open Source companies' mantra to education is 'reduce overheads, reduce support, save money, do more for less.' Trouble is this approach has not created a single...

Picture This: Better Decisions Through Data Visualization
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Picture This: Better Decisions Through Data Visualization

Can you visualize data? That’s the question raised by the Data Visualization Student Challenge, a U.S. Department of Transportation competition that invited college...

For Tech's Elite, Mobile Gaming Is a Big Play
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For Tech's Elite, Mobile Gaming Is a Big Play

After Aadil Mamujee graduated from Harvard Business School in 2010, he could have worked anywhere. Rather than join a hedge fund or consulting firm though, he...

Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations
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Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations

Paleoanthropologist Glenn Conroy and colleagues have developed artificial neural network models that predict prime locations to search for fossils.

How Apple Made Programmers Cool
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How Apple Made Programmers Cool

The rise of the app has massively altered the public perception of what a software programmer is. It has turned a generation of geek coders from social misfits...

It's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru
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It's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru

The managing director of JPMorgan Chase's office of the CIO makes a case for Hadoop as the big data platform, and career track, of the future.

Advertising Companies Fret Over a Digital Talent Gap
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Advertising Companies Fret Over a Digital Talent Gap

When the Ad:tech advertising technology conference hits New York next week, marketers, advertising agencies and recruiters may spend less time listening to the...

Fixated on What He Fixes
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Fixated on What He Fixes

Peter Guggenheim has worked so long at Stuart Electronics that his feet have worn holes through two layers of tile and an inch of plywood, down to the floorboards...

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5 Tech Pros Companies Want to Hire

Network pros, developers, business analysts, data experts, and security specialists in demand.

Open Source Jobs: What's Hot, Where to Look, What to Learn
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Open Source Jobs: What's Hot, Where to Look, What to Learn

For eager, talented software developers, free/open source software offers considerably more richness of opportunity than anything else. It is everywhere, from...

The Rare Find: Reinventing Recruiting
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The Rare Find: Reinventing Recruiting

In late 2006, 22-year-old Adam D'Angelo confronted a serious problem. Facebook, then a small Silicon Valley startup, had picked him to be its chief technology...

Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges
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Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges

During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable...

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7 Key Skills New It Grads Are Lacking

Greg Taffet is scouting for talent. Taffet, the CIO of U.S. Gas & Electric Inc. in North Miami Beach, Fla., brought on four new staffers in the past six months...

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Patent Lawyer Demand Rises Following ­.s. Legislative Overhaul

 Patent attorneys, who typically have degrees in fields such as engineering as well as law, are in such demand that their specialty may account for more than 15...

­c Santa Cruz Grads Turn Senior Project Into Game Design Company
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­c Santa Cruz Grads Turn Senior Project Into Game Design Company

A new iPad game called Syz: EG, now available from Apple's App Store, showcases the professional quality of the work done by UC Santa Cruz students in the school's...

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IT Inferno: The Nine Circles of IT Hell

Spend enough time in the tech industry, and you'll eventually find yourself in IT hell—one not unlike the underworld described by Dante in his "Divine Comedy."...

Ready For the Robot Revolution?
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Ready For the Robot Revolution?

Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...

How Rapidly Expanding Storage Spurs Innovation
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How Rapidly Expanding Storage Spurs Innovation

Moore's Law gets all the press. It's easy to present even to non-technical readers, and the way it's most often expressed is something like, "computers double...

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9 Hot It Skills For 2012

Slowly but surely, many U.S. companies are loosening their viselike grips on IT hiring and looking to add new staffers to bolster business growth in the year...

Fund Supports $250,000 Annual Student Prize For Software, Technology Business Plan
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Fund Supports $250,000 Annual Student Prize For Software, Technology Business Plan

A group of investors has created a $1.1 million fund to support $250,000 in annual prize money to Indiana University Bloomington students who submit the best...
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