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Software developers can take specific steps to insulate themselves from the risk of being let go by their employers. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter how clever you think you are or how much everyone loves you on your team, there…
The economic recession is hitting young people especially hard, with a potentially negative impact on both their future and the future of the U.S. economy. While unemployment is impacting just about every part of the global workforce…
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) recently announced the expansion of its Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE) project, which aims to determine the effectiveness of mobile phone-based games…
Despite a rising unemployment rate in the U.K., students with degrees in technical subjects, including computer science and engineering, are finding their job prospects surprisingly bright. Moreover, employers in the engineering…
Social networking sites are emerging as an important source of new hiring talent for technology companies. HR managers are increasingly investigating networking sites like Facebook, Orkut and LinkedIn to weigh the merits of profiles…
The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) new global information technology (IT) education-focused body used the WE Rock event at Australian Web Week to learn what the IT industry and universities believe are the best ways for…
IDC predicts that by 2013, jobs in information technology (IT) will expand by 5.8 million worldwide, and that 75,000 new businesses will be created during that time. IDC says that growth in software and cloud computing will…
Northeastern University is launching an online graduate degree program in information assurance (IA). The program, which will train students to tackle identity theft and information security breaches, also addresses the growing…
A typical evening at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA, sometimes looks like chaos — two friends cobbling together a robot out of chips, circuit boards and servo motors; a clump of technical writers packed like sweaty sardines…
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 research on science, technology, engineering and mathematics…
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