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Researcher to Help Develop 'Human-Like' Control System
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Researcher to Help Develop 'Human-Like' Control System

Zhen Ni will use a $261,503 NSF grant to develop algorithms for an adaptive dynamic programming-based learning control framework to be integrated into space robot...

How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature
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How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature

AI-based tools can offer a penetrating view of scientific literature, computationally taming the vast flood of scholarly papers published at a rate of 1 million...

Some Internet ­se Compensates for Other Interpersonal Issues
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Some Internet ­se Compensates for Other Interpersonal Issues

People who are lonely, depressed, and socially anxious are more likely to have problems with their Internet use.

America's High-Tech STEM Crisis
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America's High-Tech STEM Crisis

America is in a race for high-tech supremacy. The issue isn't whether U.S. colleges and universities are training students and Ph.D's in computer science and engineering...

Ten Years of Large Hadron Collider Discoveries Are Just the Start of Decoding the ­niverse
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Ten Years of Large Hadron Collider Discoveries Are Just the Start of Decoding the ­niverse

Ten years! Ten years since the start of operations for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most complex machines ever created.

Code.Org, CSTA Get Extra Computer Science Courses Through New Partnership
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Code.Org, CSTA Get Extra Computer Science Courses Through New Partnership

Code.org and the Computer Science Teachers Association have partnered with Pluralsight to bring specially curated online course libraries to thousands of additional...

Robots Can Now Pick ­p Any Object After Inspecting It
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Robots Can Now Pick ­p Any Object After Inspecting It

A system developed at MIT CSAIL can recognize specific objects it has never seen before.

Putting ​'Public' Back Into Publication
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Putting ​'Public' Back Into Publication

The KBase open-source software and data platform promises to improve the face of scientific analysis and publication.

Software Developers Are Now More Valuable to Companies Than Money
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Software Developers Are Now More Valuable to Companies Than Money

How companies deploy their software developers may be the single-biggest factor impacting their future success.

58 Percent of Tech Workers Feel Like Imposters
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58 Percent of Tech Workers Feel Like Imposters

Over half (57.55 percent) of tech employees participating in a recent survey experience impostor syndrome and feel they will be exposed as a fraud.

Big Tech's Newest Experiment in Criminal-Justice Reform
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Big Tech's Newest Experiment in Criminal-Justice Reform

On the fifth floor of slack's new building, overlooking the fancy Salesforce Park, a standing-room-only crowd of employees had gathered.

How Will Google's Innovation Continue Beyond Its 20th Year?
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How Will Google's Innovation Continue Beyond Its 20th Year?

As millions of people came online in the late 1990s they needed help figuring out what each webpage was about, and how to find what they were looking for.

Harnessing Deep Learning to Better ­nderstand the ­niverse
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Harnessing Deep Learning to Better ­nderstand the ­niverse

A collaboration between NERSC, Intel, and Cray has yielded CosmoFlow, a highly scalable deep learning application built on top of the TensorFlow framework.

Decoding Data to Predict Landslides
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Decoding Data to Predict Landslides

A software tool developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne uses applied mathematics and big data analytics to predict the location of a landslide two...

Self-Driving Technology Threatens Nearly 300,000 Trucking Jobs, Report Says
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Self-Driving Technology Threatens Nearly 300,000 Trucking Jobs, Report Says

Autonomous driving technology could replace some 294,000 long-distance truck drivers over the next 25 years, a lighter impact than some have predicted but one that...

Hearing Aids Are Finally Entering the 21st Century
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Hearing Aids Are Finally Entering the 21st Century

Most people probably associate three things with hearing aids: an elderly demographic, beige plastic construction and high-pitched feedback in public places.

Light Exchange
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Light Exchange

A quantum gate between atoms and photons may help in scaling up quantum computers.

A Push to Make 'Computer Science for All' Accessible to Students With Disabilities
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A Push to Make 'Computer Science for All' Accessible to Students With Disabilities

The CSforALL Consortium wants everyone from vendors to investors to school districts to government to publicly commit to supporting improved accessibility to computer...

Britain Faces an AI Brain Drain as Tech Giants Raid Top ­niversities
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Britain Faces an AI Brain Drain as Tech Giants Raid Top ­niversities

Britain faces an artificial intelligence "brain drain" as Silicon Valley raids its top universities for talent.

The New Science of Seeing Around Corners
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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners

While vacationing on the coast of Spain in 2012, the computer vision scientist Antonio Torralba noticed stray shadows on the wall of his hotel room that didn't...
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