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NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) says the 2010 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing will include affiliate award programs in Texas...
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Recommender Systems Make Learning More Fun
As part of the European Union TENCompetence project, the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies' Hendrik Drachsler searched for the most suitable way to...
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Northeastern Launches Online Master's Degree Program in Information Security
Northeastern University is launching an online graduate degree program in information assurance (IA). The program, which will train students to tackle identity...
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$1.25 Million Grant to Develop Teacher Training Institute
The U.S. National Science Foundation has given Arizona State University a five-year, $1.25 million grant to create the Modeling Institute, which will pool university...
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Designing a Ride and Learning Math at Epcot
Can children who do not know how many sides a triangle has get excited about learning math and engineering? Maybe a field trip to an amusement park will do the...
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A View From the 2009 European Computer Science Summit
A recurring theme at Informatics Europe's recent European Computer Science Summit 2009, which took place Oct. 8-9 in Paris, was the concern that the European scientific...
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Industry Body Forming to Address IT Graduate Skills
A pilot group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is months away from creating a global IT education-focused body to address the needs of the industry. ...
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Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough. But that is exactly the complaint from some of the largest technology...
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Trinity's Humanitarian Open Source Software Project Snags Major Grant
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a two-year, $800,000 grant to the Humanitarian FOSS Project (HFOSS), a collaborative three-college program that...
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Educational Alliance Gets Grant to Help Students With Disabilities Earn STEM Degrees
A $3 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will help the Alabama Alliance for Students with Disabilities in science, technology, engineering,...
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IBM and ACM-Icpc Announce 'battle of the Brains' Software Competition
Student computer programmers from universities around the world will battle for a spot to attend the World Finals of the 34th annual ACM-International Collegiate...
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Obama Awards National Science, Technology Medals
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted...
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Program Aims to Boost Interest in Technical Careers
Michigan State University (MSU) is creating a program that will better prepare high school students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
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Nobel Awarded For Advances in Harnessing Light
The mastery of light through technology was the theme of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored breakthroughs in fiber...
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Rim and Nserc Invest in Queen's Expertise
Software engineering techniques for very large data systems will be the focus of research at Queen's University in Canada, which has received a $5 million investment...
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After Losing sers in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software
People are worried that library catalogs are in danger of marginalization because they present information online in a clunky, non-intuitive way that often frustrates...
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Aid Agencies Turn to Open-Source Software
Wesleyan University and Trinity College students have developed Collabbit, software that acts as a virtual emergency response center. Collabbit serves as a central...
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Iits Strike Partnerships With Global niversities
Some of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are launching projects along with global universities to offer students and faculty more opportunities for collaborative...
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Robots in Education
Robots are increasingly becoming ubiquitous in education. The Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million contest to design a robot capable of traveling to the moon, is...
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