College Textbooks, Computer Science, Girls in STEM & More

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 1:57pm

Cray Awarded Supercomputer Contract from Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Cray Website, 9/16/2014
Cray Supercomputing awarded $13 million in a contract from the PTC Center for High Performance Computing at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden…
http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1968254&highlight=

 

Lockheed Martin donates $500,000 for girls STEM education
District Chronicles, 9/15/2014
Girls Inc. National has received a one year, $500,000 grant from Lockheed Martin to strengthen STEM programming for 500 girls, ages 9-12…
http://www.districtchronicles.com/news/view.php/846521/Metro-Brief-Lockheed-Martin-donates-5000

 

Why so many Harvard students take computer science
Business Insider, 9/15/2014
A look at why 800 Harvard undergraduate students are enrolled in the college’s introductory computer science course, making it the most popular class currently offered by the university…
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-so-many-harvard-students-take-computer-science-2014-9

 

Federal regulatory commission for robotics could be the next FTC
ZD Net, 9/15/2014
New study shoes a hypothetical federal robotics Commission, outlining responsibilities the FRC would execute…
http://www.zdnet.com/a-federal-regulatory-commission-for-robotics-could-be-the-next-ftc-7000033696/

 

Rise of Online Booksellers Brings Complaints from Campus Bookstores
The Chronicle, 9/5/2014
As online booksellers such as Chegg, Amazon and Half.com come to a rise, official college and university bookstores have become defensive of the textbook territory…
http://chronicle.com/article/Rise-of-Online-Booksellers/148653/