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Boosting Hispanic Share of Tech Workforce Could Be Key to Closing STEM Gap
Greater Hispanic participation could play a crucial role in reaching the Obama administration's goals for increased student exposure to opportunities in STEM fields...
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White House Introduces New Class of Innovation Fellows
The White House has revealed the assignments and backgrounds of its third class of Presidential Innovation Fellows.
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Crowdsourcing Competitions Encourage Malicious Behavior, Study Finds
A new study has found that crowdsourcing competitions produce some of the worst competitive tendencies in people.
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Women Fleeing Science, Tech Fields
While the talent pipeline of female workers in science, engineering, and technology is growing, many women are leaving these in-demand fields.
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Teens Are Losing Interest in Science, Survey Finds
A new survey found the number of teenagers interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics dropped 15 percent this year.
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Military Education Falls Short on Cybersecurity Training
Most of the six U.S. military graduate programs have not fully integrated cybersecurity education into their curricula or aligned their programs with the strategic...
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Sandia Draws From Nuclear Science in Inaugurating New Cyber Lab
Sandia National Laboratories has launched the Cybersecurity Engineering Research Laboratory, testing hardware vulnerabilities and modeling cyberweapons on supercomputers...
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Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe
The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of unstructured text, blogs, and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help military analysts...
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Do We Need Cyber Cops For Cars?
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has yet to devise standard safety guidelines for automobile electronics systems, though industry guidelines...
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Get Ready For Computers Worldwide to Automatically Smother Cyber Strikes
The U.S. government is planning to build a cyberecosystem that would prompt computers around the world to instantly suppress cyberattacks.
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White House Official Calls For Broad Regulations on Internet Use
White House Office of Science and Technology deputy chief technology officer Daniel Weitzner is calling for a broad and flexible regulatory framework for Internet...
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Building an Army of Ones and Zeros and the Troops Who Know How to Wield Them
Intrinsic to the U.S. Pentagon's development of cyberarsenals is the challenge of staffing the Cyber Command.
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MIT Team Thinks Outside the Box to Snag Social Media Prize
A team affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the U.S. State Department's social media contest, the TAG Challenge, which required participants...
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Pentagon-Funded Games Would Crowdsource Weapons Testing
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing Crowdsourced Formal Verification, a set of computer games designed to refine the way weapons...
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FTC Tells Global Internet Body to Cut Back Domain Name Plan
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers not modify its plan to begin accepting applications for new...
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Administration Issues Far-Reaching Plan For Building Cyber Workforce
The Obama administration has unveiled the first-ever roadmap for building a U.S. cybersecurity workforce and assessing federal success in raising public awareness...
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Former CIA Director: Build a New Internet to Improve Cybersecurity
The United States may seriously want to consider creating a new Internet infrastructure to reduce the threat of cyberattacks, said Michael Hayden, President George...
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U.s. Supercomputer Experts Assess Radiation Risks Amid Crisis at Japanese Nuclear Facility
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has enlisted a team of supercomputer experts to measure the radiation risks caused by the Japanese nuclear crisis...
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DARPA Seeks Security Expertise From a Nontraditional Source: the Hacker Community
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently launched the Cyber Fast Track program, which will reward security research done quickly and...
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