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Despite Problems, Silicon Valley Still an Innovation Magnet

All it takes is five minutes to compile a lengthy list of reasons not to come to Silicon Valley. The cost of living is off the charts. Traffic stinks. Housing...

Entrepreneurship Lessons for the Academic-Minded
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Entrepreneurship Lessons for the Academic-Minded

The slow pace of job creation has revived interest in getting promising new technologies out of university labs and into the marketplace. At Stanford University...

Three Ways to Uncover a Hidden Job
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Three Ways to Uncover a Hidden Job

While most candidates begin their job search online, the majority of the jobs in the United States and other countries are never advertised online. Here are a few...

Work Climate the Top Reason Women Leave Engineering
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Work Climate the Top Reason Women Leave Engineering

Despite successful interventions to increase the numbers of women earning degrees in engineering, the field faces a problem retaining those female engineers. The...

It Pros in Demand, Though Worker Confidence Low: Technisource
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It Pros in Demand, Though Worker Confidence Low: Technisource

Technisource's IT Employee Confidence Index fell in the third quarter to its lowest level in more than two years. The decline comes as a surprise because the U...

Cybersecurity Mainly Male Domain
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Cybersecurity Mainly Male Domain

While the U.S. government and private sector urgently try to beef up cybersecurity efforts, the IT field that supplies talent remains largely a male domain. At...

Your Technology Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life
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Your Technology Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life

From a marketability perspective,  a technology professional's skill set has a two year half-life. That said, there are things that you can do to keep yourself...

Cyber Workshop at Sandia Labs Seeks Potential Responses to Cyberattacks
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Cyber Workshop at Sandia Labs Seeks Potential Responses to Cyberattacks

The difficulties of defending utilities, commerce and national security against cyberattacks, and what to do to change that situation, were major themes of a recent...

The Gen Y Myth
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The Gen Y Myth

A new study finds that much of the perceived wisdom about Gen Y's attitude and approach to work appears to be wrong. This means that much of what business leaders...

More Demand, Fewer Grads Mean Tech Careers Continue to Boom
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More Demand, Fewer Grads Mean Tech Careers Continue to Boom

Demand for technology professionals continues to rise, as the technology industry remains one of the fastest growing career fields. Broader use of technology across...

Women Aren't Becoming Engineers Because of Confidence Issues
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Women Aren't Becoming Engineers Because of Confidence Issues

Women are less likely than men to stay in engineering majors and to become engineers because they want to have families and are more insecure about their math abilities...

Salaries Projected to Rise in 2012 For In-Demand It Professionals
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Salaries Projected to Rise in 2012 For In-Demand It Professionals

The newly released 2012 Salary Guides from Robert Half International project U.S. starting salaries for technology positions will increase 4.5 percent increase...

More Jobs Predicted For Machines, Not People
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More Jobs Predicted For Machines, Not People

A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, according to two researchers at the...

A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute
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A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute

Schools nationwide have rushed to supply their classrooms with computers. But the contrarian point of view can be found at the epicenter of the tech economy,...

Microsoft Employee Connects High-Tech Professionals With Local Students
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Microsoft Employee Connects High-Tech Professionals With Local Students

An innovative computer science program launched last year by Microsoft software engineer Kevin Wang now includes three dozen industry professionals who are volunteering...

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

Companies like Google and Facebook are downplaying résumés and identifying talent in unusual ways. An excerpt from George Anders's book "The Rare Find."

A Personal History With Computers
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A Personal History With Computers

Carol Spradling's life changed when she saw a computer application that could do her time-consuming accounting work in seconds. She was recently named the recipient...

10 Secrets of Successful Leaders
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10 Secrets of Successful Leaders

Leadership is one of the areas that many entrepreneurs tend to overlook. It turns out, the skills and talents necessary to guide your team in the right direction...

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...

From ACM Opinion

The Importance of Word Choice: Terms with Multiple Meanings For Scientists and the Public

If you haven't seen the excellent post on Mountain Beltway—Words matter—you should head over there and take a look. The post brought up some interesting ideas about...
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