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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Obama Awards National Science, Technology Medals
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted...
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Program Aims to Boost Interest in Technical Careers
Michigan State University (MSU) is creating a program that will better prepare high school students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
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Nobel Awarded For Advances in Harnessing Light
The mastery of light through technology was the theme of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored breakthroughs in fiber...
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Rim and Nserc Invest in Queen's Expertise
Software engineering techniques for very large data systems will be the focus of research at Queen's University in Canada, which has received a $5 million investment...
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After Losing sers in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software
People are worried that library catalogs are in danger of marginalization because they present information online in a clunky, non-intuitive way that often frustrates...
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Aid Agencies Turn to Open-Source Software
Wesleyan University and Trinity College students have developed Collabbit, software that acts as a virtual emergency response center. Collabbit serves as a central...
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Iits Strike Partnerships With Global niversities
Some of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are launching projects along with global universities to offer students and faculty more opportunities for collaborative...
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Robots in Education
Robots are increasingly becoming ubiquitous in education. The Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million contest to design a robot capable of traveling to the moon, is...
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Louisiana Tech Receives Grant to Advance Women in Engineering, Science
The U.S. National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program has awarded Louisiana Tech University $736,500 for a four-year initiative called "Creating a Culture of Success...
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Gaming Tech Aids Scientists Building Virtual Synthetic Chromatophore
Researchers are relying on graphics processing units to help build a highly complex computer simulation depicting how chromatophore proteins create photosynthesis...
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Industry Body Forming to Address It Graduate Skills
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is creating the Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA), a new body designed to help ensure that educational institutions around...
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New Russian Top50 Supercomputers List Released
The Research Computing Center of Lomonosov at Moscow State University (MSU) and the RAS Joint Supercomputer Center have released the latest Top50 list of the most...
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State Educators Call For Technology Investment
In his first State of Education Address Thursday (Sept 24), Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers touched on budget cuts and problems...
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Minority Students Needed in Math and Science to Combat 'brain Drain,' Professors Say
Three mathematics and science professors called on the U.S. government to support institutional programs that have succeeded in attracting and retaining minority...
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Moving Toward a New Vision of Education
Researchers from the University of Basque Country have finished a 10-year study examining the effects of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the...
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Debating Net Neutrality
Advocates seek to protect users from potential business practices, but defenders of the status quo say that concerns are overblown.
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World's Talent Opts to Leave sa
The United States will lose many skilled workers over the next five years as 100,000 immigrants from India and 100,000 immigrants from China return home, warns...
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What Traditional Academics Can Learn From a Futurist's niversity
The Singularity University program combines technology, futurism, and corporate support to question well-entrenched perspectives on learning and technology. The...
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Making Nanowires More Electrically Stable
Nanomaterials are widely expected to be a foundation of future electronics. A key component of tomorrow's nanoelectronic circuits is stable nanowires that work...
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