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Google's Mind the Gap! Program Interests Women in CS
Two-hour sessions with female Google software engineers are convincing many female high-school students in Israel to change their majors to computer science and...
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Colleges Looking Beyond the Lecture
Science, technology, engineering, and math departments at many universities are redesigning the lecture as a style of teaching out of concern that it is driving...
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Share of Workers in Scientific Fields Shrinks
The number of U.S. workers in science and engineering professions fell in the past decade, ending a steady upward trend in the proportion of workers in fields associated...
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Big Data Spawns New Breed of 'data Scientist'
A new breed of data scientists is in demand as a result of the rise of big data. Government, universities, and industry are looking for people with a rare mix...
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The Other Academic Freedom Movement
In the summer of 1991, Paul Ginsparg, a researcher at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, set up an email system for about 200 string theorists to exchange papers...
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Computer Programs That Think Like Humans
University of Gothenburg researchers have developed software that can score 150 on a standard IQ test.
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The Age of Big Data
Good with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.
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Linux Job Openings on the Rise: Dice Report
Dice reports that although Linux skills are in demand, finding talent is difficult for many organizations, which has boosted salaries and bonuses for Linux professionals...
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Mitx Prototype Open For Enrollment
Enrollment is now open in the first course available through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MITx online learning initiative.
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Mitx Prototype Course Opens For Enrollment
In December, MIT announced the launch of an online learning initiative called "MITx." Starting this week, interested learners can now enroll for free in the initiative’s...
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Turing's Enduring Importance
When Alan Turing was born 100 years ago, on June 23, 1912, a computer was not a thing—it was a person.
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Virtual Internships in Rising Demand
Virtual internships, in which students work for an employer over the Web, increasingly are being offered at college campuses, with advantages for both students...
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Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein
Google's very first employee, Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company to join the high-profile online learning phenom, Khan Academy.
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'cyberspace Requires a World-Class Cyber Warrior'
With growing worries about the threat of "cyber warfare," militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central...
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Google Awards $340,000 in STEM Grants
Google recently awarded $340,000 to 26 organizations that provide science, technology, engineering, and math enrichment programs to students in K-12 and higher...
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Mit's New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional Model, Program's Leader Says
In an interview, MIT provost L. Rafael Reif and professor Anant Agarwal say MITx, a new set of online courses, will be run separately from OpenCourseWare.
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Letting Hackers Compete, Facebook Eyes New Talent
Late this January, some 75,000 people around the planet sat in front of their computers and pondered how to make anagrams from a bowl of alphabet soup.
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Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have developed a system that aims to measure Web-driven scholarly interactions, such as how often research...
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Demystifying Robotics
University of Bristol computer scientists are working with students from a local U.K. secondary school as part of a project to expose them to robotics. The goal...
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