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Girls-Only Computer Class Hits Refresh on It's Geeky-Male Image
Canada's Cardinal Leger Secondary School teacher Dan Harmer put all the girls into a single computer science class, hoping that the single-sex environment would...
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More Schools Embracing Ipad as Learning Tool
A growing number of schools across the United States are embracing the iPad as a teaching tool. Some parents and scholars have raised concerns that schools are...
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Inside Higher Ed to Carry Series of Commentaries by Academics
Beginning Monday (January 3), the Inside Higher Ed website will begin carrying The Academic Minute, a series of daily 90-second commentaries by scholars speaking...
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Cheaters Find an Adversary in Technology
Mississippi had a problem born of the age of soaring student testing and digital technology. High school students taking the state’s end-of-year exams were using...
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Google's Marissa Mayer
Who says you have to be a guy to be a geek? This Google senior executive is teaching a new generation that femininity and technology are a winning formula.
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House Clears America Competes Reauthorization
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that reauthorizes the America COMPETES Act, which promotes basic research and programs geared toward enhancing...
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India's Elephantine Effort
An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.
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The Touchy Subject of Haptics
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
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Ipads to Help Autistic Children Communicate
Nova Southeastern University's Mailman Segal Institute launched a new initiative, "18 iPads in 18 Days," to help facilitate the learning process for children with...
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Video Games Boost Brain Power, Multitasking Skills
Parents, the next time you fret that your child is wasting too much time playing video games, consider new research suggesting that video gaming may have real...
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Cognitive Robotics Lab Tests Theories of Human Thought
In a new Cognitive Robotics Lab at Rensselaer, students are exploring how human thought outwits brute force computing in the real world. The lab's 20 robots allow...
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Best Colleges For Women and Minorities in STEM
Westminster College ranked first for graduating women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, according to a Forbes study. The best school...
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To Attract the Next Google, the City Seeks a New College
Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are...
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Cyber Corps Enlists CS Students to Protect National Security
Nearly 60 Florida State University graduate students in computer science will serve on the front line of defense in protecting the United States' information infrastructure...
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An Exhibition That Gets to the (square) Root of Sumerian Math
Papyrus, parchment, paper ... videotape, DVDs, Blu-ray discs—long after all these materials have crumbled to dust, the first recording medium of all, the cuneiform...
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A Lego Reconstruction of the World's Earliest Computer
Before the birth of Christ the Greeks built a mechanical computer. Now an Apple engineer has made a functional Lego replica.
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NSF Extends Program to Draw African Americans to Careers in Robotics, Computer Science
The U.S. National Science Foundation is extending its support of the Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact Alliance, a program designed to encourage...
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Su Receives $3.4 Million Federal Grant to Benefit Women in Sciences
Syracuse University recently received a five-year, $3.4 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to study ways to attract and retain more female professors...
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Umd Launches Maryland Cybersecurity Center
The path to assuring the security of vital cyber networks lies in interdisciplinary collaboration of IT and legal, policy, business and behavioral experts, co-director...
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