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Standardized Tests May Be Holding Back the Next Generation of Computer Programmers
Educating students to pass standardized tests, which command most school administrators' time, leaves little room for computer science classes to train the next...
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Inside an MIT Researcher's Grand Plan to Create the Personal Food Computer
The CityFarm research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab seeks to expand the emerging field of vertical farming.
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Google, Nasa Work Together on Disney Show to Inspire Girls Into Sciences
Disney Junior wants a new show it is developing to help bury media stereotypes about science and programmers.
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Why Organism Engineering Could Be a Foodie's Dream Come True
Thanks to recent advances in synthetic biology—a hybrid discipline of engineering and biology that makes possible the manipulation of DNA of microorganisms such...
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What 'the Imitation Game' Didn't Tell You About Turing's Greatest Triumph
"The Imitation Game" does a poor job of accurately portraying pioneer Alan Turing's contributions to computer science.
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What 'the Imitation Game' Didn't Tell You About Turing's Greatest Triumph
Freeman Dyson, 91, the famed physicist, author and oracle of human destiny, is holding forth after tea-time one February afternoon in the common room of the Institute...
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Hour of Code to Feature 'frozen' Characters
Educational nonprofit Code.org is collaborating with Disney to open its week-long "Hour of Code" event during Computer Science Education Week Dec. 8-14.
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5 Insights from Vint Cerf on Bitcoin, Net Neutrality and More
When Vint Cerf, often called the "father of the Internet," is speaking, it's wise to listen.
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So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?
A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...
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Why Teaching Grandmothers to Code Isn't a Crazy Idea
The same efforts to teach youngsters coding and entrepreneurship should be extended to older workers and retired people, writes Stanford University fellow Vivek...
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Most With College STEM Degrees Go to Work in Other Fields, Survey Finds
Students who graduate with a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are more likely than other graduates to be employed, but also...
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Why the Death of Net Neutrality Would Be a Disaster For Libraries
The Internet's eyes turned to the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, as the panel approved a plan to consider allowing Internet service providers to...
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High School Students Are All About Computers but Get Little Instruction in Computer Science
There is a significant gap between U.S. high school students' exposure to computer science and their use of computers and technology.
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Keeping Women in High-Tech Fields Is Big Challenge, Report Finds
A report found U.S. women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields are 45 percent more likely than their male peers to leave the industry within a year...
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'have You Ever Been on a Boat?' and 15 Other Weird Interview Questions from Tech Firms
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'a Fema-Level Fail': The Law Professor Who Coined 'net Neutrality' Lashes Out at the Fcc's Legal Strategy
Back in 2003, when he was a law professor at the University of Virginia, Tim Wu wrote the definitive paper on net neutrality.
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How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research
One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...
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President Obama Talks About Teaching Everyone to Code. This Professor Does It.
On Monday, President Obama kicked off computer science education week, encouraging every young person to acquire computer programming skills, even if they have...
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Google Books Ruling Is a Huge Victory For Online Innovation
It's taken almost a decade, but the courts have finally handed down a ruling on Google's audacious project to scan millions of books to build a book search engine...
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