"If you look at what's happening now in the computer security field, the bad guys are winning, and they're just criminals, " says Schneier.
Still, even with more females joining the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ranks, the computer science field remains dominated by males, and the numbers have been getting worse.
Shortly after his Bruce Lee escapade he founded Dennis Publishing, one of the early entrants in the lucrative computer magazine field and a pioneer in "lad" magazines, starting with Maxim.
Granick, who was also Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation before joining her new firm, says she has always given advice to people in the computer security field.
One of the more entertaining posts we wrote up at last year's CES was for the Golden-i, a head-mounted computer that lets field workers control their machines using voice commands and by moving their heads.
And, using the handy SharePort Mobile app for mobile devices, USB and SD card file sharing or expanded device storage, it's easier than ever to record and share a video with friends, send a corporate presentation to people in the audience, or transfer digital photos from a camera's memory card to a computer in the field.
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Although they are underrepresented in the field, computer science jobs are also among the best-paying for women.
Expansions in the field of computer science have offered a glut of attempts at building such monsters, but machine intelligence has remained a holy grail.
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Dr. Lee is a leader in the field of computer chips for wireless technologies such as mobile phones, short-range wireless devices, and global positioning systems (GPS).
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Other people living in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to be given awards include Professor Janet Thornton, head of the European Bioinformatics Institute, who was made a Dame for services to bioinformatics, the application of computer science to the field of biology and medicine.
Not a bad field for a computer-savvy kid to consider: Six-figure salaries are the rule.
When your iOS device is facing the wall, its camera monitors the field, using computer vision algorithms to detect your laser shots in real time, finally discovering a novel use for laser points that doesn't involve annoying rock bands or cats.
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Here's how its "turf TV" works: A computer sends an image to the field, where it is distributed among 1, 750 interconnected square trays, 7.5 feet on a side, that host their own light-processing circuitry.
Here's how its "turf TV" works: A computer sends an image to the field, where it is distributed among 1, 750 interconnected square trays, 7.5 feet on a side, that host their own light processing circuitry.
Engineers working in the field expect to be creating computer-generated speech that is indistinguishable from human speech within a year.
If you want a job in media, technology or a related field, make learning basic computer language your goal this summer.
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Just as human-computer interaction was once a burgeoning new field and now is a given in system design, human-future interaction is poised to become more essential to our strategic planning and innovation processes.
The event was noted on a field interview card and in the computer-aided dispatch system.
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"Computer science is permeating every industry and every field, and its importance will only grow, " said Wang.
Did you know that the earliest computer programmers were women and that the programming field was once stereotyped as female?
Who decides what a reasonable wage is, and where God stands in the choice between leaving a field under wheat and building a computer plant on it?
So the task that Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro devised was to look at a field of small spots on a computer screen, four-fifths of them stationary and the rest drifting slowly to the left or the right.
The Webster report on the Fort Hood shooting identified numerous problems in several areas including information sharing, failure to follow up on leads, failure of FBI headquarters to settle differences between the two field offices working the Hasan leads and computer technology issues.
"Silicon photonics for years was an oxymoron, " said Joe Campbell, a specialist in the field who is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia.
If Bain wins, it has an internal group of some 70 consultants who take to the field to advise portfolio companies on everything from upgrading their computer systems to calculating the profitability of a two-for-one special on fast food.
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Several companies are already seeking to take advantage of the new field, called synthetic biology, which combines chemistry, computer science, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology to breed industrial life forms that can secrete fuels, vaccines or other commercial products.
"We were extremely lucky in that we were riding the crest of wave in technological advancements because literally every week the guys in the computer department were discovering new plug-ins and new developments in the field and employing it for what I wanted to achieve, " he said.
Engineers working in the field of pervasive computing are aiming to create smart fabrics, embedded with computer chips and sensors that will enhance and possibly even save our lives.
He became interested in computer security in particular during his undergraduate studies, and was then drawn to the specialised field of privacy.
But when Google began allowing video producers to charge money for footage, the playing field narrowed--right now, it's basically competing with Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iTunes store.
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