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Inventor of the Web Gets Backing to Build Web of Data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and prominent researcher Nigel Shadbolt will lead a new British Institute for Web Science with $45 million in government backing. The
Google Summer of Code Gives Students Hands-On Experience With Open Source Projects
The back-to-school season marks the end of a number of summer camps and summer programs, including the close of Google's Summer of Code which officially wraps up today. Now in
CERN Officially Unveils Its Grid: 100,000 Processors, 15 Petabytes a Year
CERN today officially unveiled the massive computer network that will crunch the enormous amount of data coming from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CERN expects that the LHC will produce
SETI Suspends Its Search For Alien Life
Sad news for astronomy and for alien research, and even worse news if there is in fact intelligent life out there wanting to contact Earth. The SETI Institute, which operates
Robots for Everyone: Getting Kids Interested in Programming with Legos
It's been over a decade since the beloved brick-building toy company Lego introduced Mindstorms, its robotics system designed to help kids learn programming, along with other science, technology, engineering and
Kim Polese Receives NCWIT Symons Innovator Award, Announces Departure from SpikeSource
Last night in Portland, Oregon, the National Center for Women in Information Technology presented Kim Polese with the NCWIT Symons Innovator Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding
WIRED Predicted the iPad...11 Years Ago (Picture)
The iPad isn't just a touch-screen dream come true for millions of people around the world...it's the realization of a prediction WIRED Magazine made a whopping 11 years ago. In
4 (More) Tools for Teaching Kids to Code
This week is National Computer Education Week, aimed at recognizing the crucial role of computing in today's world and at supporting efforts to boost computer science education at all levels.
LexisNexis Introduces Semantic Search
If you're old enough, you'll remember LexisNexis (especially the Nexis part) as a revelation - a way to search through tons of news articles, features, papers and more to research
With BigCarrot Anyone Can Offer an X Prize
Inducement prize contests are simple: offer up a cash reward to whoever can best solve a problem first. One of the most famous current inducement prize organizers is the X
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