Bob Seidensticker, 48, graduated from MIT in 1980, and spent 25 years in the field of technology, including a stint developing software and products for Microsoft. He quit that job in 1997. He spoke with U.S. News about his new book, Future Hype, a history of technological advancements and how they change the way...
A 130-mile course in the Mojave Desert. Millions in prize money. Hundreds of mechanics. No drivers. The Great Robot Race, a Nova documentary (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/) airing March 28 on PBS, covers the contest (http://www.grandchallenge.org) sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (aka DARPA–they’re the guys who actually invented the Internet). We won’t spoil the...
You might be used to getting text messages from your friends. Or from the phone company if you’ve missed your last payment. But your phone’s inbox may soon be filling up with college mail, too. Those glossy pamphlets promoting colleges both familiar and unfamiliar are fast becoming antiques. Even the e-mail blast from universities...
The College Board has admitted that it incorrectly graded thousands of SATs
The job market hasn’t been this good in four years, and new entrants into the labor force are finding employers finally ready, willing, and able to hire them. The country’s unemployment rate was 4.8 percent in February. Businesses are hiring more workers, paying them more money, and letting them use technology to work from...
First, you take the highest-pressure standardized test you’ll probably ever have to take. Then you find out the computer scored the answers incorrectly. Your overall score was lower than it should have been-and was automatically sent to your top-choice colleges.
While he was flipping through some of his son’s undergraduate finance textbooks, Larry Holeman decided that he needed to go back to school. Even though Holeman, 58, had built his own information technology consulting firm and ran it successfully for several years, his dreams of starting a children’s youth program convinced him that he...
A reader asks: My daughter will be a high school freshman next fall. She believes she may want to pursue an education–and ultimately a career–in journalism. She is interested in attending a prestigious university, such as the University of Notre Dame or Northwestern. Can you advise us on the type of classes that would...