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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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mHealth Winter Institute Announced
The NIH has just announced a Mobile Health Winter Institute — to be held in conjunction with the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington, DC, in early December. Applications...
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Could the Next Big Thing
It’s not everyday the national news media envisions computing research. But it happened on Sunday, when
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The
The NSF’s Science Nation has a great feature today on the “Science of Shopping,” describing how computer scientists Rajeev Sharma and Satish Mummareddy have developed...
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An Online AI Course
This fall, our colleagues Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are offering a free, online version of their popular Stanford University course, “Introduction to Artificial...
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Live Right Now: NSF Announcing New Innovation Corps
In just a few minutes, during a special session of the National Science Board — and before a large gathering of senior leadership from the National Science Foundation...
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The GigU Partnership
From today’s New York Times: A coalition of 28 American universities is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks
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Art and Science: The World
We’ve all heard about Cannes.
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NSF Calling for Sustainability-Related PIREs
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a new solicitation for Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE), a Foundation-wide program...
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DARPA: Learning Warfare from Social Media
DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) has issued a new solicitation for “innovative research proposals in the area of social media in strategic communication”...
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Describing Computing Research Challenges
In the past year, we’ve developed a set of brochures describing fundamental computing research challenges in a few areas of national priority, including healthcare...
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PCAST Discusses Future of Scientific Research
In a public session last Friday, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) spent time discussing the future of scientific research in...
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A Who
A few weeks ago, we began highlighting a few of the 107 Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) we’ve had the pleasure of funding.
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Microsoft Research Announces 2011 Faculty Fellows
Every year at this time, Microsoft Research recognizes
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Mining Health Data, 140 Characters at a Time
Imagine you’re at the CDC, and you’re trying to predict and respond to this year’s flu season in real-time. You could either contact millions of Americans — or...
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Finding One Man in 60 Million Square Miles
Search is a hard problem in computing, but it’s a critical problem in real life, as friends of computer scientist Jim Gray found out when he vanished at sea. In...
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An Alternative to Science Funding?
Crowds are common at rock concerts, basketball games, and scientific research proposals. Wait — what? In The New York Times this week, there’s an interesting story...