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How Are Students Learning Programming in a Post-Basic World?
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How Are Students Learning Programming in a Post-Basic World?

Since the Basic programming language has faded into obscurity, there is no single lingua franca across the entire PC user community to function as a default starter...

Computer Models Will Help Prevent Wildfires
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Computer Models Will Help Prevent Wildfires

With an eye on preventing wildfires, the U.S. National Science Foundation is supporting the SDFireSight project's development of a technical framework and computer...

What Gamers Want: Researchers Develop Tool To Predict Player Behavior
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What Gamers Want: Researchers Develop Tool To Predict Player Behavior

Computer science researchers have developed a new method that can accurately predict the behavior of players in online role-playing games. The tool could be used...

Code Green: Energy-Efficient Programming to Curb Computers' Power ­se
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Code Green: Energy-Efficient Programming to Curb Computers' Power ­se

Computer programmers are going green with a new system called EnerJ, which helps them cut a program's energy consumption by as much as 50 percent.

Intel Anthropologist: Fieldwork with the Silicon Tribe
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Intel Anthropologist: Fieldwork with the Silicon Tribe

Anthropologist Genevieve Bell gives the chip maker insight into how people experience new technologies.

Shift to Cloud Requires Fresh IT Skills
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Shift to Cloud Requires Fresh IT Skills

As organizations move more of their applications to the cloud, they might find themselves needing skills different from what their system administrators now possess...

Linux Skills: A Hot Commodity for Job Hunters
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Linux Skills: A Hot Commodity for Job Hunters

A few years ago Linux skills were just one in a series of possible assets for job applicants looking to stand out. Now they may be a make-or-break element. Recent...

Mobile Action Lab Trains Young People to Design, Develop and Market Apps
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Mobile Action Lab Trains Young People to Design, Develop and Market Apps

Over nearly 20 years, Youth Radio's radio skills training program has helped young people develop marketable behind-the-scenes and on-air skills. Now it's taking...

Mind-Controlled Art Project/ride Links Eeg Headset and Theatrical Flying Rig
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Mind-Controlled Art Project/ride Links Eeg Headset and Theatrical Flying Rig

A team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students has created a system that pairs an EEG headset with a 3-D theatrical flying harness, allowing users to "fly"...

Visual Recognition in Mobile App Makes Tree Identification a Snap
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Visual Recognition in Mobile App Makes Tree Identification a Snap

The University of Maryland, Columbia University and the Smithsonian Institution have created the world's first plant identification mobile app using visual search...

Linux Skills Are Hot in an Improving IT Hiring Front
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Linux Skills Are Hot in an Improving IT Hiring Front

The hiring environment for information technology professionals last year was the best it's been since 2000, according to a recent Challenger, Gray & Christmas...

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Qa Jobs Morph as Agile Development Methods Gain Ground

The recession is changing the types of skills and experiences required of Quality Assurance (QA) professionals. The widespread adoption of agile development is...

ACM Council on Women Honors Leader in Improving Cad Performance
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ACM Council on Women Honors Leader in Improving Cad Performance

ACM's Council on Women in Computing has named Pennsylvania State University computer science professor Mary Jane Irwin the 2010-2011 Athena Lecturer. 

Nsf Career Award Recognizes Wsu Vancouver Professor
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Nsf Career Award Recognizes Wsu Vancouver Professor

WenZhan Song, assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at WSU Vancouver, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER...

Chinese, Russian Universities Claim Top Spots in Acm Programming Competition
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Chinese, Russian Universities Claim Top Spots in Acm Programming Competition

Three Chinese teams and four Russian teams dominated the top ten rankings of the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Shanghai Jiaotong...

Brewing ­p Java Skills For the Knowledge Economy
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Brewing ­p Java Skills For the Knowledge Economy

University College Dublin's School of Computer Science and Informatics will offer a second round of Java courses to companies that do not have the time and money...

Videogame Glitches Open the World of Computing to Students
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Videogame Glitches Open the World of Computing to Students

Why is the National Science Foundation helping Morehouse College pay students to test videogames? The school's Glitch Game Testers program is one of many NSF efforts...

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Six Hottest Skills For 2010

U.S. business executives recently responded to a Computerworld survey about the availability of information technology jobs and what skills will be in demand in...

Learning Computer Science From Scratch
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Learning Computer Science From Scratch

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher Mitchel Resnick and colleagues at the MIT Media Lab have enjoyed great success with Scratch, a computer programming...

Why Developers Get Fired
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Why Developers Get Fired

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...
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