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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Future of the Supply Chain
Experts agree supplies increasingly will be near-sourced.
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Prepare Your Meal Together with a Robot
Julie Shah and her team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology build robots that can learn from demonstration, understand humans, and truly collaborate.
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'A Very Exciting Time to be at the Helm'
A conversation with U.S. National Science Foundation director Sethuraman Panchanathan.
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Bulletproofing RISC-V Cores
The RISC-V open standard instruction-set architecture can improve cybersecurity.
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'We Have Emphasized Learning and Compassion'
Computer science instruction adjusts to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Can AI Detect Dyslexia?
Researchers try to fill the void of simple, inexpensive dyslexia detection tools with a game, and with handwriting analysis, both supported by artificial intelligence...
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ACM Study Gives Most Detailed Picture to Date of U.S. Bachelor's Programs in Computing
ACM's eighth annual Study of Non-Doctoral Granting Departments in Computing offers a sweeping assessment of undergraduate computing education.
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Minding the Gaps
Boosting diversity in the computer science field remains a challenge even after years of effort. A growing focus on universities may deliver results.
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Testing Asimov's Idea for Power From Space
Isaac Asimov's notion of capturing energy in space and beaming it to the Earth’s surface faces its first orbital testing.
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Why Did We Go Digital?
Princeton University's Ken Steiglitz feels an attachment to the analog.
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Direct Communication
Brain-to-Brain interfaces give a new meaning to putting our heads together.
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Creepy Robots of the Coronavirus Era
The robots policing people as they begin to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns are not being mistaken for anyone's friends.
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AI In the ICU
Artificial intelligence can help doctors better understand what is happening to (and in) their patients when it matters most.
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Picking Locks with Audio Technology
How eavesdropping smartphones could give thieves a copy of your front door key.
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Finding Common Ground
Self-driving vehicles start to understand pedestrians, cyclists.
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Apparently, Size Does Matter
Consumers make better Internet buying decisions when using full-sized PCs.
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We Need to Talk About Linguistic Diversity in AI
More than 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, but speech- and text-based services that use artificial intelligence are dominated by a handful.
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