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Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival
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Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival

One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...

Discovery of New Verbal Working Memory Architecture Has Implications For AI
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Discovery of New Verbal Working Memory Architecture Has Implications For AI

The neural structure used to store and process information in verbal working memory is more complex than previously understood, according to researchers at New...

Lending a Hand: Student 3D Prints Functional, Affordable Prosthesis
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Lending a Hand: Student 3D Prints Functional, Affordable Prosthesis

With a 3D printer and about $15, a student at Ithaca College was able to create a functional prosthetic hand that can be used to grip, write, and even catch a ball...

Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think
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Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think

In 2003, we reviewed "Moneyball," Michael Lewis's book about Billy Beane and the Oakland A's

Congress Moves to Curb Ticket Scalping, Banning Bots ­sed Online
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Congress Moves to Curb Ticket Scalping, Banning Bots ­sed Online

With public attention focused on the scourge of online ticket scalping, Congress has passed a bill outlawing bots, or computer programs that let users scoop up...

Flexible Device Captures Energy From Human Motion
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Flexible Device Captures Energy From Human Motion

Michigan State University engineering researchers have created a new way to harvest energy from human motion, using a film-like device that can be folded to create...

Acm 2016 Fellows Recognized For Advances That Are Transforming Science and Society
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Acm 2016 Fellows Recognized For Advances That Are Transforming Science and Society

ACM has named 53 of its members as ACM Fellows for major contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cryptography, computer architecture, high performance...

Titan's Gpus Boost Subtomic Particle Research
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Titan's Gpus Boost Subtomic Particle Research

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are using supercomputer parallelism to  make computer codes for quantum chromodynamics applications...

Machine Learning Enables Predictive Modeling of 2-D Materials
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Machine Learning Enables Predictive Modeling of 2-D Materials

Machine learning, a field focused on training computers to recognize patterns in data and make new predictions, is helping to accelerate the discovery and development...

Learning Words From Pictures
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Learning Words From Pictures

A system that correlates recorded speech with images could lead to fully automated speech recognition.

Robotic Bridge Inspection, Preservation Is Focus of New Transportation Center
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Robotic Bridge Inspection, Preservation Is Focus of New Transportation Center

A new University Transportation Center at Missouri S&T will lead to new robotic approaches to inspect and maintain bridges.

Vietnam's Startup Scene Lures Back One-Time Refugees
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Vietnam's Startup Scene Lures Back One-Time Refugees

During Dang Van Tran's numerous attempts to flee Vietnam at the age of seven he was shot at twice, nearly drowned at sea and stranded on an island.

Donald Trump Summons Tech Leaders to a Round-Table Meeting
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Donald Trump Summons Tech Leaders to a Round-Table Meeting

During the long presidential campaign, the most resolutely anti-Trump part of the country was the narrow strip of land south of this city.

White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More
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White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More

Conspicuously absent from the upbeat White House blog post kicking off Computer Science Education Week is any mention of the status of President Obama's proposed ...

Design Your Own Custom Drone
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Design Your Own Custom Drone

A new system from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the first to allow users to design, simulate, and build their own custom...

Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away From Coding Schools
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Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away From Coding Schools

It was a calamitous job interview two years ago that prompted Jose Contreras to demand his money back from the coding school he attended.

Robots Won't Kill the Workforce. They'll Save the Global Economy.
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Robots Won't Kill the Workforce. They'll Save the Global Economy.

The United Nations forecasts that the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to nearly 10 billion by 2050, a big number that often prompts warnings about...

Drones Could Be Key Piece of Future Thunderstorm Prediction Process
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Drones Could Be Key Piece of Future Thunderstorm Prediction Process

A Texas Tech researcher is part of a team that will use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to measure factors that lead to storm development.

Silicon Valley's Culture, Not Its Companies, Dominates in China
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Silicon Valley's Culture, Not Its Companies, Dominates in China

The majesty of the Golden Gate, the windy chill of Alcatraz, the tourist hubbub of Pier 39—Zhao Haoyu’s itinerary for San Francisco had it all.

Electronically Picking Your Brain – For Market Research
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Electronically Picking Your Brain – For Market Research

A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology wants to scrap the traditional electronic and paper survey approaches to gathering marketing and information...
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