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European Project Will Raise Interest in Scientific Study
Eight European universities, including the Technical University of Madrid, are participating in the European DynaLearn Project, which is designed to increase student...
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Iit Kharagpur Receives Charles Babbage Grant
Synopsys Inc. announced Wednesday (Sept. 9) that the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is the first institution of higher education in India to receive the...
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IBM Japan Giving niversities Taste of Cloud Computing
IBM Japan Ltd. is accelerating the proliferation of cloud computing at universities as part of a global strategy by parent company IBM Corp. aimed at attracting...
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Putting Computing in Education's Core
ACM has submitted comments on the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund program that stress the need to ensure the level of support and attention...
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Career Advice: High-Tech, Healthcare Best Choices For College Students
College students seeking careers in computer science and engineering have the best chance of being hired in the wake of the recession, according to a Challenger...
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Welcome to 3-D Learning
The Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) is using three-dimensional (3D) technology to enable students to interact with the content covered in...
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tsa Wins $5 Million in Stimulus Funds For New Interdisciplinary Center
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) researchers have received a five-year, $5 million National Science Foundation grant to establish the Simulation, Visualization...
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Female High Schoolers Targeted For Math, Science Degrees By N.j. Colleges
Rutgers University is among a group of New Jersey colleges that are working to get more women interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering...
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Researchers Will Tap Social Media to Support Citizens in Emergency Response
University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) researchers have received more than $2 million from the National Science Foundation to investigate the public's use...
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Ole Miss to Tweet its Watts
SmartSynch Inc., a smart grid infrastructure company using Internet protocol via public wireless networks, is partnering with the University of Mississippi to reduce...
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Iu Cognitive Scientists Receive $3.1 Million For Innovative Training Methods
Indiana University (IU) Bloomington researchers have received a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and deploy new...
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Scholarship Sponsorships For Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Announced
The Anita Borg Institute (ABI) for Women and Technology has announced that Cisco, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems will be among the sponsors for the Grace Hopper...
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Software System Helps Train Orthopedic Surgeons
New and experienced orthopedic surgeons can improve their surgical skills with an innovative software surveillance system that tracks their instruments during surgery...
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China's 600-Year-Old Forbidden City Comes Alive Online
China's 600-year-old Forbidden City is renovating its Web site in a move to improve its offerings of Chinese culture. According to Hu Chui, head of the Palace Museum's...
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Nsf Funds CM Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Privacy and Security
Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a Ph.D. program in usable privacy and security...
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Federal Grants Aim to Boost STEM Equity
Two programs created to get more minority and female students interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects and careers have received...
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Computer Science Meets Environmental Science
Scientists share knowledge and seek collaborators at computational sustainability conference.
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Facing an Age-Old Problem
Researchers are addressing the computing challenges of older individuals, whose needs are different — and too often disregarded.
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Medical Nanobots
Researchers working in medical nanorobotics are creating technologies that could lead to novel health-care applications, such as new ways of accessing areas of...
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