NYC to Open Its First Software Engineering High School
New York City is taking another step toward becoming Silicon Alley -- the East Coast's own tech hub -- with the grand opening of the city's first software engineering-specialized high school.
NYC high school will train badly needed software engineers
The new Academy for Software Engineering will train high schoolers in one of the most in-demand jobs in the technology world. But students will also get a rigorous academic education.
Engineering firm donates software to UAF
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The University of Alaska Fairbanks says an engineering company has made a $1.6 million software donation to the school's petroleum engineering department. Petroleum Experts, ba...
iWay Software and UBM Global Trade Partner to Automate Legacy Processes for More Efficient Business
NEW YORK, NY-- - iWay Software from Information Builders, an innovator of enterprise integration solutions , today announced that UBM Global Trade, a worldwide provider of proprietary data, news, and other ...
Report: Silicon Valley sees growth in jobs, wealth
Silicon Valley is creating jobs and wealth for highly skilled workers but may be leaving some residents behind as employment closes in on pre-Great Recession levels, according to a report released Tuesday.
The Academy For Software Engineering
A number of years ago, I wrote a blog post talking about the need to teach middle school and high school students how to write software. In the comments (where the good stuff happens), a Google engineer told me to go down to Stuyvesant High School and meet a teacher named Mike Zamansky who had taught him to write code in high school.
Silicon Valley Workers Now Earn $104,000 on Average
Bubble or not, tech employees in Silicon Valley seems to be doing pretty well. "Tech-jobs website operator Dice Holdings Inc. said salaries for software and other engineering professionals in California's Silicon Valley rose 5.2% to an average $104,195 last year, outstripping the average 2% increase, to $81,327, in tech-workers' salaries nationwide," according to The Wall Street Journal. The ...
Boost to indigenous software sector as 75 jobs announced
IRELAND’S INDIGENOUS software sector received a boost yesterday, with the news that 75 jobs are to be created over the next three years at two Dublin-headquartered companies.
Enterasys moving HQ, 600 jobs to NH
SALEM – Enterasys, a global networking company, is moving its corporate headquarters and around 600 jobs from Andover, Mass., to just over the New Hampshire border in Salem, in an industrial park that once housed Digital Equipment Corp. and Cisco Systems. “We’re growing; we’re bursting at the seams in the current building. We looked at a bunch of real estate in the area and were trying to keep ...
Lero get E16m in Government funding
Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre based at the University of Limerick (UL), is to get E16m in Government funding through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).