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Marine Corps Weighs Wooing Older Members for New Cyber Force
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Marine Corps Weighs Wooing Older Members for New Cyber Force

The head of the Marine Corps says it's time the U.S. military branch known for its fierce, young warriors becomes a little more mature.

QS World Ranks Top Computer Science Universities
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QS World Ranks Top Computer Science Universities

QS World has released 2018 rankings of the world's top computer science and information systems universities. The top 10 includes six universities in the United...

Our Concerns About the Arrest of Abbas Edalat in Iran
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Our Concerns About the Arrest of Abbas Edalat in Iran

129 experts in computer science, mathematics, and machine learning call for the release of their colleague, the Imperial College London professor who was arrested...

Crime Fighting Gets High-Tech Advances
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Crime Fighting Gets High-Tech Advances

When criminals are plotting, so are vigilant police departments.

Asia Pacific's Most Innovative ­niversities – 2018
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Asia Pacific's Most Innovative ­niversities – 2018

Every scientist hopes for a "Eureka" moment—the jolt of sudden insight when a discovery becomes clear. But great advances always follow regular progress, and while...

Google to Drop Pentagon AI Contract After Employee Objections to the 'Business of War'
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Google to Drop Pentagon AI Contract After Employee Objections to the 'Business of War'

Google will not seek to extend its contract next year with the Defense Department for artificial intelligence used to analyze drone video, squashing a controversial...

Trilogy Raises $50 Million for ­niversity-Boot Camp Program
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Trilogy Raises $50 Million for ­niversity-Boot Camp Program

Trilogy Education Services, which runs programming boot camps on the campuses of presitigious universities, has raised an additional $50 million from investors....

The Creepy Rise of Real Companies Spawning Fictional Design
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The Creepy Rise of Real Companies Spawning Fictional Design

In 2011, the Dutch industrial giant Philips unveiled something it called the Microbial Home.

How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google
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How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google

Fei-Fei Li is among the brightest stars in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, somehow managing to hold down two demanding jobs simultaneously: head...

Comprehensive Database Will Track Which K-12 Schools Teach C.S.
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Comprehensive Database Will Track Which K-12 Schools Teach C.S.

Code.org has announced a joint initiative with the Computer Science Teachers Association to create a nationwide database of U.S. schools showing which teach computer...

Making Decisions That the Computers Cannot
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Making Decisions That the Computers Cannot

Brain drain to the corporate sector has universities worried. The next generation of scientists risks losing its teachers.

Wrigley Field Serves as Classroom for Lane Tech Students
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Wrigley Field Serves as Classroom for Lane Tech Students

Lane Tech College Prep High School students, in collaboration with the University of Chicago, have installed sensor boxes at Wrigley Field to measure sound levels...

Boycott Highlights AI's Publishing Rebellion
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Boycott Highlights AI's Publishing Rebellion

A growing boycott of a high-profile artificial intelligence journal shows how computer science's rebellious, hacker spirit lives on in the publishing culture of...

In Silicon Valley, Chinese 'Accelerators' Aim to Bring Startups Home
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In Silicon Valley, Chinese 'Accelerators' Aim to Bring Startups Home

Beijing's unslakeable thirst for the latest technology has spurred a proliferation of "accelerators" in Silicon Valley that aim to identify promising startups and...

­C Berkeley Graduate Recognized with 2017 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
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­C Berkeley Graduate Recognized with 2017 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Aviad Rubinstein is the recipient of the ACM 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation "Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP," which established...

India Leads in Number of Students Opting for Science, Tech Degrees
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India Leads in Number of Students Opting for Science, Tech Degrees

India leads the world in the number of students getting bachelors degrees in STEM subjects, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development's Technology...

CM­ Launches ­ndergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
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CM­ Launches ­ndergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence

Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will offer a new undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence beginning in the fall of 2018, a first...

Inside Google, a Debate Rages: Should It Sell Artificial Intelligence to the Military?
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Inside Google, a Debate Rages: Should It Sell Artificial Intelligence to the Military?

Last July, 13 U.S. military commanders and technology executives met at the Pentagon's Silicon Valley outpost, two miles from Google headquarters.

Racing for an A: Students Put Self-Driving Cars to Final Test
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Racing for an A: Students Put Self-Driving Cars to Final Test

Computer science students at the University of Virginia raced miniature autonomous vehicles last week as part of their final exam.

Wikipedia's Top-Cited Scholarly Articles, Revealed
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Wikipedia's Top-Cited Scholarly Articles, Revealed

The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes—and many of the most popular...
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