How best to improve the nation’s technological competitiveness is not an easy problem to tackle. Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.), Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness, presided over a Senate hearing, Fostering Innovation in Math and Science Education, on Wednesday which explored the importance of science, math, and engineering education [...]

“Starbucks coffee shops have mushroomed in China’s cities,” said Chinese President Hu Jintao, in Seattle, WA, his first stop on his U.S. visit. “If I were not serving in this office, I would certainly prefer to go into one of the coffee shops run by Starbucks.”
President Hu’s visit is not all jokes, [...]

The latest craze in poetry is neither limerick, nor haiku. It’s Fibs! Gregory K. Pincus of the literary blog, GottaBook invited his readers to try their hand at using the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, …) to dictate the number of syllables per line [...]

MONEY Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs, considering their growth, pay, stress-levels and other factors and Software Engineering came out number one! From money.cnn.com:
Why it’s great Software engineers are needed in virtually every part of the economy, making this one of the fastest-growing job titles in the U.S. Even so, it’s not [...]

Both England and Ireland are taking great strides to improve their hi-tech workforce by increasing the number, quality, and perception of their engineers.
Over recent years, Ireland completely overhauled its economy. It lured investment and jobs from high-tech and pharmaceutical multinationals by offering low corporate taxes (12.5 percent) coupled with a young, well-educated, flexible [...]