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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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ACM China Nearing Launch
ACM's expansion into China will support local professionals and increase Chinese involvement in ACM's international activities.
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Degrees, Distance, and Dollars
The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students—but not necessarily at a lower cost.
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Brains and Bytes
Computational neuroscientists are learning that the brain is like a computer, except when it isn't.
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For Pianist, Software Is Replacing Sonatas
The pianist Robert Taub was puttering around the house one afternoon in 2004 while his teen-age daughter was practicing for a violin lesson—a Schubert sonatina...
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Virtual Reality Tackles Tough Questions
Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour that were previously not possible or were thought too unethical.
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Tech Guilt: 5 'persuasive' Technologies to Help You Be Good
Information is power, but does information—by itself—actually make people change their behavior?
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Courses Charge Up Future Electric-Vehicle Engineers
When Professor Mehdi Ferdowsi and Ph.D. student Andrew Meintz offered the inaugural class on electric and hybrid vehicles at Missouri University of Science and...
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Senator Schumer: H-1b se ndercuts Pay, Discourages Tech Enrollments
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says the H-1B visa program has created "multinational temp agencies" that undercut U.S. wages and discourage students from entering...
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Simplifying Computer Power Behind Phones, Medical Devices
University of Houston researchers are collaborating with chipmaker Texas Instruments to simplify the development of programmable multicore processors.
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New Paradigm For Scientific Publication and Peer Review
Scientific knowledge has been shared in the same way for centuries. A European research project advocates replacing papers and peer reviews with a new process inspired...
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Wanted: Cybersecurity Pros
Demand for a cybersecurity workforce is heavy, as U.S. federal agencies, contractors, and technology companies vie for a limited pool of qualified employees.
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In a Video Game, Tackling the Complexities of Protein Folding
In a match that pitted video game players against the best known computer program designed for the task, the gamers outperformed the software in figuring out...
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Are Female It Graduates Still nderrepresented?
The U.K.'s Higher Education Statistics Agency reports that the number of women studying computer science has fallen over the past five years, from 24 percent to...
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Customizing Science Instruction With Digital Libraries
Middle and high school teachers participating in the Curriculum Customization Service program use animations, images and interactive media to help engage Denver...
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Personal Robots: Newest Cs1 Teaching Tool
The Institute for Personal Robots in Education has developed a curriculum, software, and plug-in board for an off-the-shelf personal robot that it hopes will...
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Celebrating the Legacy of Plato
The PLATO@50 Conference marked the semicentennial of the computer system that was the forerunner of today's social media and interactive education.
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Making Sense of Real-Time Behavior
Data captured by sensors worn on the human body and analyzed in near real-time could transform our understanding of human behavior, health, and society.
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Building Skills That Count
The Texas Advanced Computing Center has created a supercomputing curriculum designed to teach advanced computing skills to undergraduate and graduate students at...
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DARPA
Darpa’s leading advocate for crowdsourcing and other ways of tapping new talent is leaving to join Microsoft—after only a year at the Defense Department’s top R&D...
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