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Nominations Open For Marie R. Pistilli Eda Achievement Award
Nominations are now being accepted for the 10th Annual Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Automation Achievement Award, which is named after the former...
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Cyber Spying a Threat, and Everyone Is In On It
The computers of Tibetan exiles and the U.S. electrical grid were recently breached by hackers, highlighting the growing threat of cyber espionage. The White House...
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Robotic Gardeners: MIT Droids Tend Plants
A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, harvest and pollinate cherry tomato plants. The...
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Robot Suit Will Turn You Into Ironman
A cybernetic bodysuit developed by Cyberdyne Corp. and Daiwa House of Japan augments body movement and increases user strength by up to tenfold. The HAL (Hybrid...
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Dual Degree Programs Aim to Create Better Engineers
The Computing Research Association recently reported that enrollment in engineering and computer science programs increased by 8 percent over the 2007-2008 school...
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Scholarship For Cis Program Seeks to Close the Gap
Florida A&M University's Computer Information Sciences (CIS) Program has been awarded a $552,000 National Science Foundation grant to recruit minority women to...
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They're Hiring in Hong Kong
A sudden wave of hiring in East Asia, especially in Hong Kong, could lead to a brain drain of computer science talent away from America. Talented IT professionals...
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Demand for H-1B Visas Tumbles
Applications for H-1B visas are down about a third from a year ago, according to the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agency began accepting...
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The Internet's Librarian
Technologist and entrepreneur Brewster Kahle (pictured) wants to produce a free, online corpus of human knowledge called the Internet Archive that is bigger than...
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White House Says U.S. Needs H-1b Visas to Avoid 'competitive Disadvantage'
President Barack Obama has already reversed several actions and policies established by President George W. Bush, but has shown little interest in revising a rule...
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25 Highly Anticipated Open-Source Releases Coming This Year
The free and open source software community is hotly anticipating a large number of new releases this year, including an upgrade to Mozilla's Firefox browser that...
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Google's Power Play
Google and General Electric (GE) have teamed up on an ambitious project to transform the United States' energy production infrastructure from a model characterized...
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Pitt, CM Try to Buck Sliding Trend of Women Studying Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) computer science education graduate student Leigh Ann Sudol says computer science suffers from the lack of female participation...
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Talking in Color: Voice Imaging Helps Social Skills
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign computer scientist Karrie Karahalios has developed a technique to digitize conversations and represent them as images...
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Project to Support Minority Students in Science Is Working, Report Says
The number of minority scientists is increasing, concludes a report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Alliances for Graduate Education...
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Purdue, Rutgers Will Lead $30 Million U.S. Homeland Security Research Center
Purdue University and Rutgers University will lead an international research and education group in a six-year, $30 million U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
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Sun Dial Mobile App Alerts Muslims to Prayer
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a mobile application known as Sun Dial, which alerts Muslim users when it's time to perform the...
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Georgia Tech Program Pairs Computing With Public Service
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) has spun off a course on using technology to solve real-world problems into a new program called Computing for...
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Tool Builds 3-D Map of Disaster Scene
Texas A&M University lab's Robin Murphy (pictured) and colleagues have developed RubbleViewer, a tool for modeling a disaster scene that they say is more efficient...
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