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• IBM defends use of temp visa workers

  IBM says the growth in technologies such as cloud, analytics, mobile and security is "exacerbating the skills shortage" in the tech industry, and underscores the need for temporary foreign tech workers.

• 8 tips for finding and managing programmers

  Demand for top software engineering talent is going through the roof, which makes recruiting and keeping exceptional developers one of a CIO's biggest challenges.. This is especially true if you happen to be in a location where you are competing for talent with a tech giant like Oracle or Google.

• The CIO as cheerleader/collaborator/therapist/technophile/entrepreneur

  Jack Wood, CIO for home goods e-commerce powerhouse Wayfair, wears many hats and he doffed them all at <a href="http://events.networkworld.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=8349&amp;">IT Roadmap</a> in Boston this week.

• How unconscious bias impacts IT recruiting and hiring

  Making recruiting and hiring decisions based on a candidate's height sounds ludicrous, right? And yet, according to research from Timothy A. Judge and Daniel M. Cable, published in the June 2004 issue of Journal of Applied Psychology, there's a perception that height correlates with success. While only 15 percent of American men are taller than six feet, more than 60 percent of corporate CEOs are over six feet tall.

• H-1B employees crowd out other workers, says study

  The battle over the H-1B visa is mostly a battle of brute political muscle on Capitol Hill, coupled with campaign spending. But in the quieter academic sphere, the visa is a topic of ongoing research, and a new paper by three economists is challenging some of the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2899350/the-h-1b-visa-debate-pain-and-the-politics.html">assertions made by the tech industry</a> that H-1B workers deliver economic gains.

• Is IT work getting more stressful, or is it the Millennials?

  IT work can be stressful, which has always been true. But a new survey says the stress level in IT may be rising. But why?

• Billions of reasons to listen to these Unicorn startup founders

  Unicorns are all the rage these days, and we're not talking about the ones in fantasy stories or on your kids' bedspreads. The unicorns that people at events like last week's <a href="http://tiestartupcon.com/">TIE Startup Con</a> (formerly TIEcon East) are agog over are private companies with valuations of $1 billion or more, such as co-working office space provider <a href="https://www.wework.com/">WeWork</a> and data virtualization company <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2216568/security/actifio-debuts--introduces-new-data-protection-applications.html">Actifio</a>, whose founders talked shop during the opening panel at the Cambridge, Mass., get-together for entrepreneurs and investors.

• How a N.Y. college helps STEM students succeed

  Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology is taking a unique approach to building its pipeline of incoming talent and helping its outgoing seniors land prime jobs after graduation through a partnership with digital marketing agency EGC.

• All hail the next big job, the chief IoT officer

  In the near future, you may hear about the appointment of a Chief Internet of Things (IoT) Officer. Before you roll your eyes and chortle at the thought of another chief-of-something, consider the problem.

• 4 must-read IT leadership books

  You have your pick of hundreds of books on business, leadership and creative thinking in business. But which ones are really worth your time? These hand-picked books from 2015 address some of the most important IT leadership issues of our time, including how to analyze data more effectively, how to hire in our current "everyone is an expert" culture and what it really means to lead in the face of widespread adversity and economic upheaval.

• Salaries for STEM jobs in decline

  After several years of strong growth, wages across all industries stalled in the first quarter of 2015 and previous top-performing sectors such as the professional, scientific and technical services industries as well as the oil and gas industry have declined, according to cloud compensation data and software provider PayScale's most recent PayScale Index.

• Everest avalanche kills privacy-focused Google engineer, Dan Fredinburg

  Dan Fredinburg, an engineer who worked on many of Google's most exciting projects during his 8 years with the company, died over the weekend in an avalanche on Mount Everest triggered by Nepal's devastating earthquake</a>.

• Median age at Google is 29, says US age discrimination lawsuit

  The typical employee at Google is relatively young, according to a lawsuit brought by an older programmer who is alleging <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2510342/it-industry/age-bias-in-it--the-reality-behind-the-rumors.html">age discrimination</a>.

• Why the journey to IPv6 is still the road less traveled

  The writing's on the wall about the short supply of IPv4 addresses, and IPv6 has been around since 1999. Then why does the new protocol still make up just a fraction of the Internet?

• Apple's Ahrendts sells $8.7M in stock as Watch launch nears

  Apple's head of retail and online sales, Angela Ahrendts, has sold almost 70,000 shares of company stock worth approximately $8.7 million since the first of the month, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).