President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka are unveiling a new federal computer science initiative with major tech backers

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

President Donald Trump will issue a new directive Monday to supercharge the U.S. government’s support for science, tech, engineering and mathematics, including coding education, as the White House seeks to train workers for high-demand computer-science jobs of the future. To start, Trump is set to sign a presidential...

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Silicon Valley: Google and Friends Help Students at This Elite Tech School Defray Costs

Monday, September 25, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

The Holberton School, which helps select students get potentially lucrative software engineering jobs, defers tuition charges until after graduation. Now, along with a few allies, it wants to help them defray the stratospheric cost of living in its home town of San Francisco as well.Google, Scality, and CloudNow...

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MIT researchers used a $150 Microsoft Kinect to 3D scan a giant T. rex skull

Friday, July 07, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category :

MIT’s Camera Culture group has been able to successfully capture a high-resolution 3D scan of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull using about $150 worth of equipment and some free software. The skull, which belongs to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, was discovered in 1990 and is the largest...

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How University Research Projects could become products

Friday, July 07, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category :

The application of scientific knowledge gained from academic research can present solutions to some of the problems facing a nation. Research commercialisation transforms technology birthed from research activities into useful marketable products or services. Remember how Google was formed from a Stanford University research? However Nigerian universities and...

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