Georgia Institute of Technology (01/22/09) Fernandez, Don
The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) has developed a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip capable of transmitting 60 GHz digital radio-frequency signals. GEDC researchers say the technology could lead to the rapid transfer of high-definition movies and other large files from a PC to [...]

South Florida Sun-Sentinel (FL) (01/17/09) Qualman, Rick R.
Math and science must become more popular with young children if they are to take advantage of the employment opportunities as the world becomes smarter, writes Rick R. Qualman, IBM’s senior state executive for Florida. The retirement of Baby Boomers already means that between 250,000 and 500,000 IT [...]

CIO.com (via InfoWorld), December 22
With the competition for tech jobs heating up as a result of the economic downturn, having an effective résumé is almost becoming a prerequisite for finding the right job. Unfortunately, many IT workers fail to optimize their résumés for the way that recruiters sort through potential candidates. In today’s hiring environment, [...]

Tech Careers (via Information Week), January 8
Despite the economic recession, career experts say IT professionals should feel optimistic about the hiring environment in 2009. After all, IT has become a core, embedded function at every company, meaning that there is now less volatility to IT hiring plans. As a result, technology workers will continue to [...]

Network World (01/15/09) Marsan, Carolyn Duffy
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to quadruple its investment in research dedicated to securing the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) by adding digital signatures to router communications. DHS says the research initiative, dubbed BGPSEC, will prevent routing hijackings and accidental misconfigurations of routing data. DHS expects BGPSEC to [...]

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is “the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware.” IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.
Today, the term [...]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Computer science (or computing science) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems.[1][2][3]. Computer Science is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that describe and transform information; the fundamental question underlying computer science [...]

CBS News (01/04/09) Stahl, Lesley
Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Marcel Just and colleague Tom Mitchell have combined functional MRI’s (fMRI’s) ability to observe a brain in action with computer science’s ability to process massive amounts of data to see if it is possible to identify what occurs in the brain when people think specific thoughts. The [...]

Canadian Press (01/12/09)
Inventor Takanori Shibata, from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, demonstrated Paro, a therapeutic robot that looks like a baby seal, at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “His whole body is covered by tactile senses so Paro feels your touch and your stroking,” Shibata says. Paro also [...]

Agence France Presse (01/07/09)
Shawn Henry, cyber division assistant director at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), says that beyond weapons of mass destruction, cyberattacks pose the greatest threat to the United States. U.S. experts warn of a “cybergeddon” in which an advanced society that has most of its major infrastructure systems linked to or [...]