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Explained: Femtoseconds and Attoseconds
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Explained: Femtoseconds and Attoseconds

As electronic and optical devices get ever faster, terms for ever-smaller increments of time are coming into wider use.

Nsf Grant Will Create 'big Data' Infrastructure at Ndsu
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Nsf Grant Will Create 'big Data' Infrastructure at Ndsu

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded North Dakota State University a $400,000 grant over three years to create a Data-Intensive Cyberinfrastructure...

­pgrade Triples Computational Capability of Razor Supercomputer
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­pgrade Triples Computational Capability of Razor Supercomputer

A hardware upgrade to Razor, the flagship supercomputer of the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center, has tripled the computer's computational capabilities...

Facebook Boosts Voter Turnout
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Facebook Boosts Voter Turnout

An experiment conducted on Facebook during the U.S. elections in 2010 demonstrates that important real-world behaviors like voting can be influenced by online social...

Eight Ways to Advance Your It Career By Staying Relevant
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Eight Ways to Advance Your It Career By Staying Relevant

It's important to keep up with the latest trends and technologies, whether you already have a job or are looking for work. How can you stay current?

Stanford Announces 16 Online Courses For Fall Quarter
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Stanford Announces 16 Online Courses For Fall Quarter

Stanford University launched 16 new online courses and two new home-grown platforms for interactive learning this fall. Stanford's new online courses cover topics...

Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks
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Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks

On a dusk-lit beach on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, four miles from the northwesternmost point of the continental U.S., a man dressed in a mad scientist's white...

­.S. Collaborators to Make Higgs-Hunting Tech Available
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­.S. Collaborators to Make Higgs-Hunting Tech Available

The University of Texas at Arlington is teaming with with two U.S. Department of Energy national labs to develop a universal version of PanDA, a workload management...

Overconfident CEOs Are Better Innovators, Research Shows
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Overconfident CEOs Are Better Innovators, Research Shows

New research reveals overconfident CEOs are more likely to pursue riskier projects with potentially greater rewards. The findings are published in the latest edition...

Estonia Reprograms First Graders as Web Coders
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Estonia Reprograms First Graders as Web Coders

Public schools in Estonia will soon have a curriculum for teaching web and mobile application development to students as early as first grade.

Visiting the White House, 'Anytime, Anywhere, and on Any Device'
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Visiting the White House, 'Anytime, Anywhere, and on Any Device'

The White House has launched a mobile program that includes a mobile-friendly WhiteHouse.gov website, revamped mobile apps, and the release of source code for the...

Tech Jobs Are All Across America
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Tech Jobs Are All Across America

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute recently released a report that presents a county-by-county picture of how high-tech jobs are distributed throughout the...

Using YouTube to Assess and Supplement Online Learning
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Using YouTube to Assess and Supplement Online Learning

As online learning steadily becomes the norm, it is important that more educators are aware of the tools they can incorporate into their classrooms — such as Skype...

The Joys of ­rban Tech
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The Joys of ­rban Tech

For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley, North Carolina's...

A Peace Corps For Civic-Minded Geeks
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A Peace Corps For Civic-Minded Geeks

The nonprofit Code for America, a kind of Peace Corps for geeks, has led the way in bringing online efficiency to offline government systems, picking a team of...

New Program Joins Computer Science and Design Experts at ­W, Tsinghua ­niversity
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New Program Joins Computer Science and Design Experts at ­W, Tsinghua ­niversity

Computer science, HCI, and design students from the University of Washington and Beijing's Tsinghua University collaborated this summer developing ways that technology...

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Painful Birth For Europe's New One-Stop Patent

That Europe needs a common patent is patently obvious to Michael Setton, who runs a tiny technology firm in France making wireless sensors that track environmental...

Foundation Funding Sustains Arxiv Scientific Repository
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Foundation Funding Sustains Arxiv Scientific Repository

arXiv, the free repository that has revolutionized the way scientists share information, is adopting a new governance and business model that will allow it to...

Education Leaders See MOOCs, Distance Learning as the Future of Higher Ed
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Education Leaders See MOOCs, Distance Learning as the Future of Higher Ed

Sixty percent of respondents to a survey conducted for an Elon University School of Communications project said the Internet is bringing great change to higher...

Gender Gap in IT Labor Market Remains Wide: Survey
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Gender Gap in IT Labor Market Remains Wide: Survey

Thirty-five percent of 2,400 information technology managers worldwide claim to have no women in IT management roles in their organization, and 24 percent have...
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