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­.S. Senate Confirms Trump's Science Adviser After Two-Year Vacancy
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­.S. Senate Confirms Trump's Science Adviser After Two-Year Vacancy

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorologist, as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

In Memory of Lawrence Roberts
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In Memory of Lawrence Roberts

Beeeeeeep.

Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge
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Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge

A common belief among tech industry insiders is that Silicon Valley has dominated the internet because much of the worldwide network was designed and built by Americans...

Diversity in the Lab Makes Me a Better Scientist
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Diversity in the Lab Makes Me a Better Scientist

An international environment forces you to consider different perspectives to begin with and helps you to communicate your ideas more clearly in the end.

Developing the Job Skills Needed for a Future Economy
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Developing the Job Skills Needed for a Future Economy

The Global Innovation Exchange, a new graduate program partnership between the University of Washington and China's Tsinghua University, with foundational support...

Silicon Valley Worker Shortage Creates ­pside-Down Labor Market
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Silicon Valley Worker Shortage Creates ­pside-Down Labor Market

Workers with a high school diploma have lower unemployment rates than those with bachelor's degrees or higher in some Bay Area counties.

One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine

In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers...

British-Iranian Computer Science Professor Returns Home After Detention
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British-Iranian Computer Science Professor Returns Home After Detention

Abbas Edalat, a professor of computer science and mathematics at Imperial College London who was detained in Iran in April, has returned to Britain, according to...

The Man Turning China Into a Quantum Superpower
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The Man Turning China Into a Quantum Superpower

On September 29, 2017, a Chinese satellite known as Micius made possible an unhackable videoconference between Vienna and Beijing, two cities half a world apart...

Two Princeton ­niversity Computer Science Professors To Lead Google AI Lab
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Two Princeton ­niversity Computer Science Professors To Lead Google AI Lab

Princeton University computer science professors Elad Hazan and Yoram Singer will lead a Google artificial intelligence lab that is scheduled to open in January...

Initiative Will Educate High School Teachers in Computer Science
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Initiative Will Educate High School Teachers in Computer Science

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has launched a five-year initiative that will educate and certify high school teachers to teach computer science....

China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.
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China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.

In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...

Nonprof-IT Student Teams Provide Tech Support to Community Groups
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Nonprof-IT Student Teams Provide Tech Support to Community Groups

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offer free IT services through the Nonprof-IT program.

Josh Tenenbaum Named Innovator of the Year by R&D Magazine
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Josh Tenenbaum Named Innovator of the Year by R&D Magazine

Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of computational cognitive science at MIT, was named 2018 Innovator of the Year by R&D Magazine.

The ­S Needs to Engage China on Tech, Or Risk Isolating Itself
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The ­S Needs to Engage China on Tech, Or Risk Isolating Itself

The contrast could hardly be more striking. In October, Vice President Mike Pence delivered a blistering speech accusing China of stealing prized US technology...

Science vs. the State: A Family Saga at the Caltech of China
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Science vs. the State: A Family Saga at the Caltech of China

Three generations of personal and political history show the tensions between the Communist Party's need for knowledge and its need for ideological control.

Half of Academic Scientists Quit After Just Five Years–Here's Why
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Half of Academic Scientists Quit After Just Five Years–Here's Why

Indiana University researchers estimated that half of all people pursuing STEM careers at higher-education institutions leave the field after only five years. ...

What Are Silicon Valley's Highest-Paying Tech Jobs?
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What Are Silicon Valley's Highest-Paying Tech Jobs?

Product management, reliability, and security jobs pay the most in Silicon Valley, says job search firm Indeed.

3 Reasons Students Aren't Into Computer Science – Yet
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3 Reasons Students Aren't Into Computer Science – Yet

Many students go through their entire high school career without being exposed to computer science. Research isolated three reasons why students are not interested...

International Students Steer Clear of Graduate Programs in the ­nited States
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International Students Steer Clear of Graduate Programs in the ­nited States

The number of international students enrolling in U.S. graduate programs is falling, according to reports from the U.S. Council of Graduate Schools in Washington...
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