Technology

Despite the date, it's no joke. The Amazon Women in Engineering group is kicking off their 1st annual AWEsome Evening Celebrating Women in Engineering on Monday, April 1st. The festivities celebrate women in technology. Amazon would love for you and your family to join us and celebrate women in technology! Come learn about how women are impacting Amazon and technology. The event will run ...

Before founding Microsoft, Bill Gates and Paul Allen had a different venture. While still high school students in the 1970s, they formed a company, Traf-O-Data to read the data from traffic data recorders and create reports for traffic engineers. Looking back, the business seems like it was from another century (which it was). The old data recorders used paper punch tape ... a rather arc...

Get ready for DrupalCamp, Jersey Style! Well, not quite Jersey style ... seeing that Princeton is the part of New Jersey that doesn't like to admit to being in New Jersey. Or so legend has it. Nevertheless, DrupalCamp NJ 2013 will held from Friday February 1st through Sunday the 3rd in the hallowed halls of Princeton University. Over 200 Drupal devotees are expected ... attracted, ...

NASA's Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) is slated to launch in 2014. An unmanned Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) will take flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, propelled by a Delta IV Heavy Rocket. It will orbit the earth twice before returning to Earth at high velocity. The EFT-1 Orion MPCV was initially built at Lockheed Martin's New Orleans-based Michod Assembly Facilit...

When is a survey not just a survey? Why when it's a Survey Gizmo, of course! Survey Gizmo boasts customer service that's not just great ... it's legendary. Customers aren't the only ones that love the Boulder-based company. Survey says they have a fun work atmosphere, to boot. Break out the Nerf Guns and banish the thought of Richard Dawson for a moment. When you hear the word Gizmo, do ...

A free Ruby on Rails workshop in Portland? What's the catch? To get into Rails Girls Portland, you have to be a woman. With a laptop (and at least a basic knowledge of working with a computer). Or a man, accompanied by an interested lady. (Even better if she's more interested in the curriculum than she is in you.) Girls are given priority. Bottom line: If you're a female with the desire ...

Coming soon to a basement workshop near you: A fully programmable, LEGO-integrated robot of your own crafting, courtesy of MATRIX Robotics. MATRIX Robotics was created in 2011 by a group of experienced robotics enthusiasts who have spent the past 15 years working and playing with robots. The people at MATRIX set out to design the robotics system they’ve always wanted and the result was the...

If it's hard to get to, nearly impossible to exist in, and super-cool to look at—not to mention 62 feet under the sea—then NEEMO is there! No, not the cute fish from the movies.  We're talking NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) which is essentially outer space, under water. NEEMO — the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations project — is a NASA analog mission that send...

Tonight's the night, Yuri. It's going to be alright. Of course we're talking about Yuri Gagarin, the telegenic, barrier-busting cosmonaut who launched a cultural fascination with space. What better way to honor his legacy that to throw a world-wide party? Yuri’s Night is a global celebration of humanity’s past, present, and future in space. Yuri’s Night parties and events are held around...