Best High-Tech Master's Degree

A high school diploma at 15 and a bachelor's degree at 16: precocious teenager Marian Kogler has now become Austria's youngest master's graduate at the age of 17.Vienna's University of Technology (TU) announced on Monday that the young man had completed his master's degree in computational intelligence.He also holds a bachelor's degree in software and information engineering, and has now embarked on a doctorate in computer science at the TU.The son of a writer and an administrative assistant, Kogler could read and write at the age of three.

While a new report puts the average debt load of new college grads at a stomach-churning $35,200, the Georgia Institute of Technology is rolling out an alternative program experts say offers a beacon of hope for both students and employers: A three-year master’s degree in computer science that can be earned entirely online — and that will cost less than $7,000.  The school is partnering with Udacity, a for-profit provider of MOOC (massive open online course) education, and AT&T, which is contributing $2 million and will provide connectivity tools and services. “We believe this program can

While a new report puts the average debt load of new college grads at a stomach-churning $35,200, the Georgia Institute of Technology is rolling out an alternative program experts say offers a beacon of hope for both students and employers: A three-year master’s degree in computer science that can be earned entirely online — and that will cost less than $7,000.  The school is partnering with Udacity, a for-profit provider of MOOC (massive open online course) education, and AT&T, which is contributing $2 million and will provide connectivity tools and services. “We believe this program can

College tuition is often the single-most expensive burden American families have to shoulder. In the Cara Community tradition of providing readers with timely advice and financial planning tips, this article -- written by education policy expert Sophia Foster -- takes a hard look at what rising college costs mean for students and families, and offers a number of ways to make the investment produce returns in our still-dragging economy.

NEW YORK (AP) — Thomas Sohmers, 17, of Hudson, Mass., has been working at a research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since he was 13, developing projects ranging from augmented reality eyewear to laser communications systems. This spring, his mom, Penny Mills, let him drop out of 11th grade.

The biggest technology companies in the U.S. have been asking for immigration reform for a long time. Their general complaint is that they can't hire the best and brightest people from around the world to work at their companies because of our immigration laws. As a result, our corporations and our nation are at risk of losing their competitive edge.

Canadian researchers have succeeded in side-stepping an obstacle of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, a strange law of the quantum world that says precise measurement is impossible, because the act of measuring changes what you are trying to measure. Their experiment in an Ottawa lab — in which they measured the polarization states of single light particles, called photons — is seen as a small step toward a quantum computer, a major goal of modern science.

By Angela Haines After an accomplished educational background in computer engineering in her native , Ayah Bdeir felt she was on the wrong track.?? "My parents and teachers always encouraged me to take more and more science because I was good at it, but I really didn't enjoy it. It seemed too abstract for me; ...