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AI Helps Scientists Find New Uses for Existing Medications
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AI Helps Scientists Find New Uses for Existing Medications

Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a machine-learning method that crunches massive datasets to help determine which existing medications could...

The 'Netflix' of Scientific Conferences
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The 'Netflix' of Scientific Conferences

Scientists reinvented the SICB's annual meeting for the COVID-19 era.

Amazon Eyes Launching Its Computer Science Education Program in India
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Amazon Eyes Launching Its Computer Science Education Program in India

Amazon is planning to extend Future Engineer, its computer science education program, to India. A job recruitment post said the company plans to launch the program...

Solutions Proposed for Deluge of Disinformation
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Solutions Proposed for Deluge of Disinformation

A white paper issued by the CRA's Computing Community Consortium outlines steps to help the United States deal with the disinformation that's flooding the Internet...

Hackathon's Winning Students Help the Blind Take Buses
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Hackathon's Winning Students Help the Blind Take Buses

A team of two high school students and five college students won first prize in a charity competition with their project that assists the visually impaired to take...

Massive 2021 U.S. Spending Bill Leaves Research Advocates Hoping for More
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Massive 2021 U.S. Spending Bill Leaves Research Advocates Hoping for More

The massive $1.4 trillion spending bill that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law on Tuesday reverses the deep cuts the outgoing president had proposed for...

Researchers Team Up to Launch BU's Racial Data Lab
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Researchers Team Up to Launch BU's Racial Data Lab

Boston University launched the Racial Data Lab this month as part of an effort to become the leading U.S. academic institution for data-driven antiracist research...

Authentication Solutions Explored for People with Upper Extremity Impairments
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Authentication Solutions Explored for People with Upper Extremity Impairments

A $516,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will help Krishna Venkatasubramanian, a University of Rhode Island computer science professor, research...

A Career Fueled by HPC
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A Career Fueled by HPC

In a world of nuance and interpretation, the objectivity of math spoke to me (and still does). To be able to use applied math to do science through the use of very...

Gift Creates New Cornell College of Computing and Information Science
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Gift Creates New Cornell College of Computing and Information Science

A transformative nine-figure gift from Ann S. Bowers will establish the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, supporting Cornell's...

'The Robot Made Me Do It': Robots Encourage Risk-Taking Behavior in Humans
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'The Robot Made Me Do It': Robots Encourage Risk-Taking Behavior in Humans

Robots can encourage humans to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if the robot is silent, research shows.

Earable Computing: A New Research Area in the Making
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Earable Computing: A New Research Area in the Making

A University of Illinois research group is defining a new sub-area of mobile computing called "earable computing"  that sees earphones as the next significant milestone...

Computer Scientist Warren Hoburg Selected for NASA's Artemis Team
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Computer Scientist Warren Hoburg Selected for NASA's Artemis Team

Computer scientist Warren Hoburg was selected by NASA as one of 18 astronauts to form the Artemis Team for the agency's next astronaut missions on and around the...

The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm
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The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm

The University of Texas at Austin has stopped using a machine-learning system to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. program in computer science.

2020 Global Highly Cited Scientific Researchers Identified
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2020 Global Highly Cited Scientific Researchers Identified

Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers 2020 includes 124 computer scientists, researchers who have demonstrated significant influence in their field through...

Virtual Hour of Code Event Set for CSEdWeek
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Virtual Hour of Code Event Set for CSEdWeek

The Mississippi State University Center for Cyber Education will conclude 2020 Computer Science Education Week activities by hosting a virtual Hour of Code event...

Why CS Students Are Drawn to Sanskrit
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Why CS Students Are Drawn to Sanskrit

Libbie Mills, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, noticed something interesting in her introductory Sanskrit class this fall: six of the 40 enrolled...

COVID-19 Hinders Academic Productivity of Faculty with Young Children
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COVID-19 Hinders Academic Productivity of Faculty with Young Children

The academic productivity of higher education faculty in the United States in the STEMM fields with very young children suffered as a result of stay-at-home orders...

'We're Not Going to Run Out of Work'
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'We're Not Going to Run Out of Work'

Digitization and automation have replaced millions of middle-class jobs, yet there is reason for optimism for workers, said scholars and business leaders at an...

Student Teams Vie in ASC Supercomputer Challenge
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Student Teams Vie in ASC Supercomputer Challenge

More than 300 university teams from five continents helped kick off the preliminary round of the 2020-2021 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge on November 16, 2020...
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