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DARPA's Lee to Microsoft
Wired's Danger Room <a href=http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/darpa-crowdsourcer-in-chief-bolts-for-microsoft/>reports</a> that Peter Lee, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's "leading advocate for crowdsourcing and other ways of tapping new talent is leaving to join Microsoft." Lee, former head of Carnegie Mellon University's computer science department, was at DARPA for only a year. He developed DARPA's <a href= http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2010/05/apps_for_the_army_1_transformative_apps_0.php>Transformative Apps</a> program.
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DARPA crowdsourcing chief joins Microsoft
Peter Lee, head of DARPA's Transformational Convergence Technology Office, is stepping down to join Microsoft.
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How big is the oil spill? See how far it would stretch in your hometown
Just how far does the spill from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig really go? It's easy to lose sight of the scale of the millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, but what if the source of the gusher were in your hometown?
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IT Jobs Still Pay Premium
Starting salaries for computer science and computer engineering graduates have taken a bit of a hit this year but still remain significantly higher than starting salaries for other professions, InformationWeek <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/07/pay_for_compute.html;jsessionid=2HUUYIN513ZSBQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL+">reports</a>.
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Pick the best White House app
Cast your vote in a White House contest to develop the best smartphone app for fighting childhood obesity.
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Cyber Ambassadors
The Homeland Security Department on Wednesday announced the winners of a contest designed to garner new ideas to improve the public's cybersecurity awareness and literacy.
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Off and Running
The release this week by HHS of final rules for the "meaningful use" of electronic health records is akin to the pop of a starting gun at the outset of a five-year marathon. Well down the road, at the finish line, is a transformed health-care sector that leverages information technology in ways that others sectors--banking, e-commerce, entertainment, et al--embraced years ago.
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Obama to update Bush-era cybersecurity directive
The Obama administration is working on an updated national strategy for securing cyberspace and plans to update a presidential directive from the George W. Bush presidency.
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Spill prompts NOAA to define its data management architecture
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is defining the architecture needed to effectively manage, store and disseminate data to the public and other agencies in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon-BP oil spill.
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White House just getting started on cybersecurity
A report on progress made on cybersecurity in the 14 months after last year’s release of the Cyberspace Policy Review highlights steps taken to secure cyberspace, but much work remains to be done.
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The prescription for cell phone viruses
Although malware targeting mobile devices is on the rise, there are some things you should know -- and some steps you should take -- that will keep yours uninfected.
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Homeland Security stymied by shortage of UAV pilots
DHS, which uses unmanned aerial vehicles to spot illegal immigrants entering the country, must compete with Defense for the skillful controllers needed to remotely fly the aircraft along U.S. borders.
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Health IT Checkup
Defense and Veterans Affairs lead the way in making a nationwide health information network a reality.
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Obama pushes to expand NASA's public contests
Winners will receive millions of dollars in prize money for developing innovations in satellite launch technology, energy storage and robotics.
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