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12 Oct A Platform Rocks The House For Tech Diversity At Morehouse College

Last time I visited Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia (disclosure: I consulted for them in 2013), John Silvanus Wilson was deep in thought. It was Christmas 2014 — a great time for reflection — and he was just ending his second year as president of a college best known for one of its alumni: Dr. Martin Luther King.

08 Oct Yahoo Donates Servers to Universities to Support Tech Diversity Mission

Yahoo has donated 200 servers to Howard University and The University of Texas at El Paso as part of an effort to encourage diverse populations at the respective universities to pursue careers in computer science and technology.

08 Oct How to reverse-engineer finding elite tech talent

What if you could pinpoint the characteristics that make your top talent so good, and use that info to identify new recruits? Online social learning and collaboration platform Piazza is rolling out a new feature set that it claims allows you to do just that.