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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Benchling Scores $14.5M to Grow Online Lab Notebook for Bio-Researchers

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That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

We’ve had Wolfram|Alpha free on the web for years now. Yes, there’s certainly a need for some number of software engineers in the world who can write low-level programs in languages like C++ or Java or JavaScript—and can handle the details of loops and declarations.