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Microsoft Awards $5 Million Digital Divide Software Grant To National Urban League

National Urban League officials say the $5 million software grant announced by the Microsoft Corp. will focus largely on education and tutoring assistance administered nationally by 102 local affiliates of the nation’s oldest and largest Black organization.

April 4, 2007

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First Woman Selected for Top Computer Science Award

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Frances E. Allen the winner of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for her work in computer science.

April 4, 2007

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Hot Majors: Here Today, But Not Yesterday

Rapidly changing technology demands that higher education keep pace and train future professionals in emerging fields…

March 21, 2007

HBCUs

Tech Program Trains Next Generation

For two weeks every summer at a small college in West Virginia’s northern panhandle…

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Digging Out of the Digital Divide

One of the most prominent engineers and entrepreneurs in the country, Dr. Randal D. Pinkett keeps a high profile on issues related to minorities…

March 7, 2007

Latinx

Minority-Serving Institutions Find New Technology Advocates

When the new U.S. Senate opened for business in January, it didn’t take long for minority-serving colleges to find a new sponsor for a…

February 7, 2007

Community Colleges

Recruiting the Underserved To College

Five big buses are currently cruising Texas high schools, shopping malls and low-income neighborhoods with one primary goal…

January 24, 2007

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Northwestern Researchers Succeed In Developing ‘Invisible’ Transistors

It may soon be possible for a car windshield to display maps for lost drivers or for a window to double as a billboard, thanks to new technology developed by Northwestern University researchers.

January 24, 2007

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Robotic Crawlers Assess New Orleans

Though undetected damage to power lines caused by hurricanes, landslides, wind storms and other calamities may not disrupt…

January 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Resilience: My Pathway to the Information Technology Professoriate

While recently attending a conference in Atlanta, a scholarly gentleman and I struck up a conversation regarding academic life and multidisciplinary research…

January 10, 2007

Latinx

Florida Atlantic Joins Latin American Grid Initiative

Florida Atlantic University has joined the IBM-led Latin American Grid, or LA Grid…

January 8, 2007

STEM

Operation STEM

For the first time in the 30-year history of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science…

November 15, 2006