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The Hard Truths of Navigating Ageism in It
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The Hard Truths of Navigating Ageism in It

Widespread age discrimination has become a central issue affecting many people working or seeking work in today's IT industry, according to legal and career experts...

Who Will Pay For the Future If Not the Robots?
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Who Will Pay For the Future If Not the Robots?

RRobots are taking over the world's workforce—and why shouldn't they?

Ibm Research Alliance Builds New Transistor For 5-Nm Technology
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Ibm Research Alliance Builds New Transistor For 5-Nm Technology

IBM and its research partners have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5-nanometer chips, paving the way...

Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89

Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...

20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess

Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.

Gaze ­pon Jupiter's Enormity in This Amazing Fly-By Video
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Gaze ­pon Jupiter's Enormity in This Amazing Fly-By Video

Latest view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft from Enneagon on Vimeo.

Teaching Robots 'manners'
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Teaching Robots 'manners'

DARPA-funded researchers have created a cognitive-computational model of human norms in a representation that can be coded into machines, clearing a path to the...

You Don't Have to Major in Computer Science to Do It as a Career
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You Don't Have to Major in Computer Science to Do It as a Career

Majoring in math, nuclear engineering, or even geology can lead to a well-paying software job.

Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? ­ncle Sam Wants to Review It
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Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? ­ncle Sam Wants to Review It

The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."

Wearable Glove Provides Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality Environments
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Wearable Glove Provides Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality Environments

Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to feel tactile feedback when they interact with virtual...

China's Go Masters and Researchers Are Optimistic About the Country's AI Future
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China's Go Masters and Researchers Are Optimistic About the Country's AI Future

After AlphaGo's historic victory against South Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol in March 2016, Go teacher Jianlun Qian felt a sense of impending crisis. He fretted...

Computer Scientist to Boost Interactivity of Museum's History, Holdings
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Computer Scientist to Boost Interactivity of Museum's History, Holdings

James Miller,  associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas, is exploring new ways to open the Spencer Museum...

The Virtual-Reality App That Turns Your Office Into a Vacation Paradise
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The Virtual-Reality App That Turns Your Office Into a Vacation Paradise

The British writer Charles Lamb was no stranger to workplace-induced despair.

Well-Aligned and Densely Packed
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Well-Aligned and Densely Packed

A team of scientists at Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory harnessed a spontaneous self-alignment mechanism to produce a thin film with millions...

Building Empathy Through Computer Science and Art
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Building Empathy Through Computer Science and Art

Danielle Olson creates immersive media to help users understand each other's backgrounds and feelings.

Is China Outsmarting America in A.i.?
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Is China Outsmarting America in A.i.?

Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence...

Meet the Nerds Coding Their Way Through the Afghanistan War
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Meet the Nerds Coding Their Way Through the Afghanistan War

A disembodied voice sounded over a loudspeaker. "Incoming. Take cover," it warned to anyone within earshot. Then, the sirens began to wail.

A New Spin on Electronics
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A New Spin on Electronics

A research team has discovered that a class of materials called organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites that could be a game changer for future spintronic devices....

As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating
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As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating

Exploding interest in computer science courses across the United States has coincided with an undesirable side effect: a spate of high-tech collegiate plagiarism...

Mark Zuckerberg Tells Harvard Graduates to Embrace Globalism, 'a Sense of Purpose'
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Mark Zuckerberg Tells Harvard Graduates to Embrace Globalism, 'a Sense of Purpose'

Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg returned to the university Thursday to give graduates a commencement address, filled with calls for building a connected world "where...
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