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Public School Teacher Celebrated for Her Girls-Only CS Classes
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Public School Teacher Celebrated for Her Girls-Only CS Classes

Chantel Parnell piloted an all-girls computer science class at Bret Harte Middle School and recently won Teacher of the Year for Oakland Unified School District...

Redditors Aim to 'Free Science' From For-Profit Publishers
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Redditors Aim to 'Free Science' From For-Profit Publishers

A group of Redditors have come together in a bid to download over 85 million scientific papers from the Sci-Hub website and make them available as an "uncensorable"...

Some California Colleges Offer Credit For Playing Video Games
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Some California Colleges Offer Credit For Playing Video Games

Both Cal State Dominguez Hills and UC Irvine offer certificates in esports, which means students can earn credit for playing video games.

MiraCosta, UC Irvine Partner to Get Women of Color Into Computer Science
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MiraCosta, UC Irvine Partner to Get Women of Color Into Computer Science

MiraCosta College has partnered with UC Irvine on the Pathways to Computing for Women of Color initiative intended to increase the number of women of color pursuing...

Archaeologists Teach Computers to Sort Ancient Pottery
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Archaeologists Teach Computers to Sort Ancient Pottery

Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University used convolutional neural networks to teach computers to perform image-based classification of thousands of ancient...

Building a Workforce for the Quantum Age
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Building a Workforce for the Quantum Age

Purdue University is working to build a quantum workforce, using an array of tools including an upcoming Quantum Summer School, an online edX MicroMaster Program...

Teen's Book Encourages Young Girls to Study Computer Science
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Teen's Book Encourages Young Girls to Study Computer Science

Danielle Park, 15, wrote and self-published her own book on computer science principles and programming aimed at middle and high school students.

Teen Invents $41 Smartwatch That Can Monitor, Treat Drug Overdoses
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Teen Invents $41 Smartwatch That Can Monitor, Treat Drug Overdoses

Steve Dou, a California high school senior, created a smartwatch that measures a user's oxygen level, heart rate, and muscle movement to detect drug overdoses before...

Lab Forum to Focus on Machine Learning for Industry
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Lab Forum to Focus on Machine Learning for Industry

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will hold the virtual Machine Learning for Industry Forum in August for participants and attendees from industry, research...

Promote Sustainability and Help Underserved Communities
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Promote Sustainability and Help Underserved Communities

Sustainability is the greatest challenge threatening mankind. The U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals promote solutions for this threat. Computing, through a series...

Virtual Agents Match Humans in Role-Playing Practice of Leadership Skills
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Virtual Agents Match Humans in Role-Playing Practice of Leadership Skills

A virtual human can be as effective as a real person in helping individuals practice leadership skills, according to researchers at the Human Interface Technology...

DOE Will Spend $10M on Research to Tame Massive Data Sets
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DOE Will Spend $10M on Research to Tame Massive Data Sets

The U.S. Department of Energy will provide $10 million in funding on foundational research to address the challenges of managing and processing the increasingly...

CS Students Create Customizable Search Engine for Young Learners
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CS Students Create Customizable Search Engine for Young Learners

Computer science students from Johns Hopkins University and Georgia Institute of Technology created a search engine that tailors results to a user's reading level...

Using Emotion and Humor to Combat Science Misinformation
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Using Emotion and Humor to Combat Science Misinformation

Humor might help combat scientific misinformation published online and on social media, according to research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of...

Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists
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Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists

Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers.

Embed Your Startup In The 'Secret City'
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Embed Your Startup In The 'Secret City'

An entrepreneurship program for national security-related technology startups will provide financial support and access to Los Alamos National Laboratory's resources...

InfoBot Virtual Assistant Supports Dartmouth Students and Faculty
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InfoBot Virtual Assistant Supports Dartmouth Students and Faculty

Dartmouth College has deployed a conversational AI named Dart to provide responses on technology and services within seconds to approximately 10,000 students and...

Course Bridges the Gap Between Computer Science and Art
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Course Bridges the Gap Between Computer Science and Art

Mark Santolucito's Creative Embedded Systems course at Barnard College bridges the worlds of art and computer science.

Researchers Demo High-Bandwidth Wireless Brain-Computer Interface
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Researchers Demo High-Bandwidth Wireless Brain-Computer Interface

Researchers at Brown University and clinical trial participants have demonstrated a wireless version of the BrainGate brain-computer interface.

Pandemic Threatens to Damage Careers of Women in STEM
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Pandemic Threatens to Damage Careers of Women in STEM

Ongoing strain of the COVID-19 pandemic and longstanding structural barriers threaten permanent damage to the careers of women in STEM, says Patricia Clark at the...
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