Communications of the ACM
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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Censored!
Countries use Internet censorship to dominate the political dialogue, but also to create favorable conditions for government-controlled businesses.
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Sharing Computational Perspectives
Computer scientists are now making intellectual contributions to a wide range of other disciplines, including evolutionary theory, physics, and economics.
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Fears Over Dearth of Engineers in Europe
The European Roundtable of Industrialists says that Europe needs to take action to encourage people to become engineers or risk losing out to India and China.
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$2.9 Million Grant To Support Innovative Approach to STEM Disciplines
Professor Ron Eglash of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has received a five-year, $2.9 million National Science Foundation research grant to support the development...
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Children's Book Apps Get Curiouser and Curiouser
I prefer the old-fashioned experience of reading in the printed form, though I'm intrigued by the idea that the iPad, and eventually other tablet devices will give...
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Where Are All the Science Majors?
In a move to measure its workforce not too long ago, Nationwide Insurance surveyed its 36,000 employees at the time. Its CEO was in for a shock. The single largest...
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Chinese Aim to Build the Next Silicon Valley
Many of the cool tools consumers crave, such as iPads, smart phones and laptops, were dreamed up in the United States. But when it came time to turn the inventors'...
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Programming 'boot Camp' Offers Basic Training
John Stamey is a drill-sergeant to computer science students at Coastal Carolina University. Everyone in first-semester programming must write 370 programs. Student...
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Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It
Children in kindergarten are being introduced to engineering as school districts across the U.S. embark on an aggressive pursuit of the discipline amid growing...
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Why Do Women Leave Science And Engineering?
Increasing the retention rate of women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields could help stem the U.S.'s declining share in world patenting and scientific...
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Georgia Tech Students Compete at .k. Video Game Competition
Five Georgia Tech students will be the first team from the United States to participate in Dare to Be Digital, a 10-week challenge in the United Kingdom where teams...
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Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Soon to Arrive in Ghana
The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) has partnered with the EU Pascal2 Network of Excellence to establish an artificial intelligence...
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The Humanities Go Google
Stanford University's Literature Lab attempts to probe the evolution of literary style by using computer algorithms to sort, interrogate, and interpret some 1,000...
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Jump in Enrollments of First-Time, Full-Time S&e Graduate Students
Enrollments of first-time, full-time graduate students in science and engineering programs in the United States reached a record 108,819 in 2008, an increase...
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House Allocates $84 Billion for Technology R&D
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, which provides $85 billion in science and technology research and...
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Olpc and Marvell to Develop Xo Tablet Computer For Students
One Laptop per Child and Marvell will jointly develop a family of next-generation OLPC XO tablet computers based on the Marvell Moby reference design.
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Educators Seek New Ways to Steer Kids Toward Technical Fields
Students at the new Hughes STEM High School, in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati, learn concepts of science, technology, engineering and math by...
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
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