Thursday, September 25, 2014

Computer Science






TechCrunch (blog)
To Bridge the Skills Gap, Focus On Improving Computer Science's Image
Editor's note: Alison Derbenwick Miller is the vice president of Oracle Academy where she and her team work to advance computer science education ...
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Sept. 24 2014 11:33 AM
Teachers are often called upon to answer this question about an academic subject, and computer science instructors may face this demand more ...
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Gwinnett Tech ranked as top 100 producer of computer science grads
LAWRENCEVILLE — An 11 percent rise in the number of associate degrees awarded in computer science fields last year has vaulted Gwinnett ...
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The Brown Daily Herald
CS dept. seeks additional funds amid enrollment surge
Responding to increasing enrollment rates in computer science courses, the Department of Computer Science is planning a fundraising campaign to ...
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Powering Up! Universities Get Serious About Women In Computer Science
When it comes to improving diversity in computer science programs at the university level, private liberal arts college Harvey Mudd College is leading ...
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German computer scientists take Cambridge debug software
One of the world's leading applied maths and computer science research institute's has turned to Cambridge UK technology to keep their systems and ...
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Editor's note: Alison Derbenwick Miller is the vice president of Oracle...
For example, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2020 there will be 1.4 million new computer science jobs. However, between current ...
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Forbes
Udacity CEO Thrun Cooks Up $35 Million Of New Instruction
In an interview, Thrun said he's excited about using Udacity as a way of addressing the "skills gap" in fields ranging from computer science to finance.
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Can you out-race a computer?
The answers are "yes" and "sometimes," according to research out of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
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Nuclear Science





Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
In a major new book, Unmaking the Bomb, a group of physicists and experts on nuclear security from Princeton University's Program on Science and ...
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Reuters UK
Vietnam-IAEA responsible member
The world now has 437 nuclear reactors operating in 30 countries, ... the three nuclear pillars-nuclear safety and security nuclear scientific and ...
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Women's and Gender Studies





Research takes a fresh look at gender studies
Myers, an associate professor of gender studies and history, said she has ... One of the ways Myers said black women were able to gain power was ...
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Tech student to be featured on MSNBC
The Virginia Tech junior currently double majors in sociology with a concentration in women's and gender studies and in public and urban affairs with ...
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Study suggests link between ethnicity, gender stereotypes and interest in STEM
Most studies to date on women in STEM fields don't identify the ethnicity of ... That stereotype is one of the key contributors to the gender disparity.
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International Seminar on Gender and Communications Kicks Off in Beijing
Experts in the fields of communication studies and gender studies that ... After the period of reform and opening up, Chinese women's studies faced ...
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PhD Research





Dozier: MSU Ph.D. student awarded $2000 scholarship
... a third-year Ph.D. chemical engineering student at the Michigan State University College of Engineering, a scholarship award for his research on ...
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KTAL
LSU Health Scientists among recipients of research grants
Jerry McLarty, PhD, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center Associate Director for ... The cervical cancer prevention research team will conduct four projects to ...
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Stanford Medical Center Report



Medical Xpress
Immune activity shortly after surgery holds big clue to recovery rate, Stanford team finds
Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have ... immunology professor Garry Nolan, PhD, the method enables simultaneous ...
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