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In last week’s PBS NOVA scienceNOW program, What Will the Future Be Like?, David Pogue imagined what the Tech page of The New York Times might look like 10, 20, or 30 years from today and offered...

Information Systems Department Seminar Subjectivity and Social Role Recognition in Meetings Theresa A. Wilson Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Johns Hopkins University 12...

Information Systems Department Seminar Subjectivity and Social Role Recognition in Meetings Theresa A. Wilson Human Language Technology Center of Excellence Johns Hopkins University 12...

Blockly is new web-based, graphical programming language developed by Google. It's graphical in the style of Scratch in that you create a program not as a linguistic object, but by selecting and...

  A small study by the Brookings Institution looked at the percentage of people age 25 and over in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas who held at least a bachelor’s degree in 2010, versus in...

Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, is seen using SQL in the Hollywood remake. See The Girl With The ANSI Tattoo for an analysis of which DBMS this is and a critique of the queries...

Russia-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs has described a new cyber attack toolkit dubbed Flame (Worm.Win32.Flame) which they describe as "what might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet."...

Forbes ranked metropolitan areas on increased tech-related jobs based on their employment growth in the sectors most identified with the high-tech economy and STEM. Among the top five are DC at #2...

Forbes ranked metropolitan areas on increased tech-related jobs based on their employment growth in the sectors most identified with the high-tech economy and STEM. Among the top five are DC at #2...

We've starting to see advertisements for a new kind of position: privacy engineer. If you've seen the classic movie, The Graduate, you'll remember the conversation that recent college graduate...