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IT's Most Wanted: Mainframe Programmers
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IT's Most Wanted: Mainframe Programmers

Although mainframes remain a key component of enterprises, many mainframe personnel are getting ready to retire and there are not enough students interested in...

The Search For Analysts To Make Sense Of 'big Data'
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The Search For Analysts To Make Sense Of 'big Data'

Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping,  weather patterns, or financial transactions. Companies hoping to make use of the big data...

Science Pubs Create Lively Intellectual Exchange
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Science Pubs Create Lively Intellectual Exchange

Science Pubs are a new forum for freewheeling exchange between people who love science and researchers of all stripes. Organizers say the discussions reveal a broad...

Digital Downtime
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Digital Downtime

During the holidays, you might look forward to the time away from work — unless you feel a nagging need to check emails and voice mails. You wouldn't be alone....

Why Free Software Is Not a Job Killer
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Why Free Software Is Not a Job Killer

Computerworld UK author John Spencer laments that free and open source software's (FLOSS) cost benefits have been taken to heart, so much so that there are hardly...

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...

Reverse Mentoring Cracks Workplace
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Reverse Mentoring Cracks Workplace

In an effort to school senior executives in technology, social media and the latest workplace trends, many businesses are pairing upper management with younger...

How to Retain Your Startup Workforce
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How to Retain Your Startup Workforce

Startups need to provide a unique and exciting atmosphere to retain top talent. Startup workers want to be a part of a team that shapes a company through its development...

Using Linkedin to Track Down Your Dream Job
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Using Linkedin to Track Down Your Dream Job

Your LinkedIn profile can showcase your skills and help the right people and opportunities find their way to you. Members with at least one past position on their...

Insect Cyborgs May Become First Responders, Search and Monitor Hazardous Environs
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Insect Cyborgs May Become First Responders, Search and Monitor Hazardous Environs

Research conducted at the University of Michigan College of Engineering may lead to the use of insects equipped with cameras, microphones, and other sensors to...

Technology-Rich Learning Environment Improves Tech Retention Rates
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Technology-Rich Learning Environment Improves Tech Retention Rates

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have found that use of a technology-rich learning environment in undergraduate engineering-technology courses...

For Future Job Seekers, 'tis the Season to Network
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For Future Job Seekers, 'tis the Season to Network

Students on holiday breaks should seek out opportunities to "network before they need work" and plant the seeds for a successful career search, says Brett Woodard...

Building It Talent From the Ground ­p
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Building It Talent From the Ground ­p

Interest in technology, particularly consumer technology, is at an all-time-high among teenagers in Hong Kong. But that passion isn't encouraging students to pursue...

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.

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How to Get Your Kid Into an Elite Computer Science Program

Robotics competitions, programming skills tip the scales for college applicants; being a girl helps.

Hottest Major on Campus? Computer Science
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Hottest Major on Campus? Computer Science

The nation's best undergraduate computer science programs are bracing for a record number of applications this fall, as more students are lured by plentiful jobs...

Foreign Firms Troll For Tech Grads
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Foreign Firms Troll For Tech Grads

Foreign technology companies, many of which are led by foreign-born tech workers who left the U.S. due to visa issues, increasingly are recruiting some of the U...

The Advantages of Being a Woman in Tech
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The Advantages of Being a Woman in Tech

Cisco Systems CTO Padmasree Warrior, one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley, nearly bypassed a career in the tech industry, turned off by the dearth of...

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...

Online Chat Boosts Lying and Email Has the Most Lies
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Online Chat Boosts Lying and Email Has the Most Lies

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers find that communication using instant messaging and e-mail increases lying compared to face-to-face talk, and e-mail...
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