Deb Perelman

Sixty years ago, six women became some of the earliest computer hackers in history. A new documentary hopes to give them their credit due. In the half-century since Rosie the Riveter became the culture icon not just for women who had worked in manufacturing plants while men were off fighting World War II, but for […]

MIT just got a whole lot less exclusive. MIT celebrated a milestone Nov. 28 in its efforts to open its course content to the public–the core teaching materials, including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams from MIT’s 1,800 courses, are now online and free to the public. The site (www.ocw.mit.edu) includes voluntary contributions from 90 […]

Comparing the scores of 15-year-old students in the United States to their international peers, the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) report results, released Dec. 4, are especially disheartening this year. The average combined science literacy scale score for U.S. students was lower than the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an intergovernmental agency […]

Despite ongoing worries that an economic slowdown is looming, a new report suggests that the IT professional job market will be immune-at least for the time being. Thirteen percent of CIOs said they plan to add IT staff in the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest IT Hiring Index and Skills Report from […]

If the IT industry is going to attract the talented people it needs in the future, it needs to change the way it recruits, according to analysts. Right now, the industry is in a squeeze. There is a looming talent gap brought on by declining computer science enrollments and imminently retiring Baby Boomers in the […]

IT has a lot of hiring to do, thanks to the significant turnover expected in the field over the next decade brought on by Baby Boomer retirements, professionals who have left the field and declining enrollments in computer science degree programs. At the same time, IT is in the midst of a hiring quandary of […]

Application Tracking Systems have been widely used in recruiting for years, allowing recruiters to throw a resume into a database and search against it via keywords. The only time most recruiters see resumes in full is when it shows up in a search. A resume that is speckled with keywords gets a lot of views—and […]

While most bosses arent so naive that they believe there is a magic pill or potion that would get their employees to whistle while they work, stabs at what would make those employees happier are quite often off the mark. Ken Hess, a technical analyst at a large global outsourcing company in Tulsa, says, quite […]

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), long an advocate of transparency in the H-1B program, has found a new target: the Federal government. Grassley has fired off two letters to two federal agencies–the only two among the top 200 users of H-1B temporary worker visas in 2006–asking them to disclose why they made these hires. “While the […]

On the heels of the being acquired by Taiwan-based Acer last month, Gateway laid off 50 workers in North Sioux City, Iowa, and another 50 at its headquarters in Irvine, Calif. Nov. 28 The announcement came just weeks after Acer CEO J.T. Wang told BusinessWeek that Acer had no plans to lay off Gateway employees. […]

Much research has been done on mothers who drop out of the work force, either permanently or temporarily, to raise a family. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 28 percent of mothers in the United States with children younger than 18 dont work; among mothers of infant-age children, the percentage climbs to nearly half. […]

As it battles competitors such as Google and Yahoo for Web-bases services, Microsoft has continually expanded its Internet infrastructure through the construction of data centers around the world. In May 2006, it broke ground on a 75-acre data center in Quincy, Wash.; in January 2007, Microsoft announced a 44-acre data center in San Antonio; in […]