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Teach Your Robot Well
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Teach Your Robot Well

A new study by Georgia Tech's Maya Cakmak and Andrea Thomaz identifies the types of questions a robot can ask during a learning interaction that are most likely...

Nintendo Wii Game Controllers Help Diagnose Eye Disorder
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Nintendo Wii Game Controllers Help Diagnose Eye Disorder

Scientists are using Wii remotes to assess and diagnose children with ocular torticollis, an abnormal head position caused by eye diseases.

An App That Helps You Cozy ­p to Strangers
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An App That Helps You Cozy ­p to Strangers

Paul Davison is in a hurry. Not just to board the plane that's about to take him to his father's retirement party in San Diego, or to get through the talking points...

Two Asteroids Named After Unix Co-Creators
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Two Asteroids Named After Unix Co-Creators

Two small asteroids now bear the names of two towering figures in computing history, Unix inventors Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

The Helper
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The Helper

MIT senior Jacob Wamala applies his engineering skills and his desire to serve to help improve the lives of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.

Computer Experts Join the Battle Against Moths Invading Britain
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Computer Experts Join the Battle Against Moths Invading Britain

Computer experts have been called in to help Britain win an increasingly desperate battle against an invading army of clothes-eating moths.

Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World
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Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World

Stanford University is introducing five free online classes in March as the next step in a university initiative to use new technologies to improve education....

Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge
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Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge

The Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, sponsored by DARPA and NASA, and run by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, TopCoder, and Aurora Flight Sciences...

Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says
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Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says

Cloud computing technologies will help create nearly 14 million technology-related jobs worldwide by 2015, resulting in $1.1 trillion in revenue annually, according...

What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball
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What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball

The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...

RPI Student Aims To Improve Efficiency of Power Grids
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RPI Student Aims To Improve Efficiency of Power Grids

Zepu Wang has developed a new advanced material to coat electrical components and allow the transmission of higher voltages across power infrastructures. The material...

Supercomputer Center Announces 2012 Internships For High School Students
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Supercomputer Center Announces 2012 Internships For High School Students

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is holding a volunteer internship program for high school students this summer to assist them in gaining experience...

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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers

As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...

IT Jobs on the Rise
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IT Jobs on the Rise

As growth returns to the world economy, outsourcing returned to favor in 2011 and will continue to post gains in 2012 as well, according to a report by Morrison...

Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models
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Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models

There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket.

Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire
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Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire

It's a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., and there goes David Cheriton, navigating the Silicon Valley suburb's tony downtown on his bike.

App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students
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App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students

An app created by a Vanderbilt graduate student converts an Android tablet computer into a powerful tool for teaching math to visually impaired students.

Gordon Supercomputer: Ready for Researchers
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Gordon Supercomputer: Ready for Researchers

The Gordon supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center has begun helping national academic researchers as well as industry and government agencies perform...

Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers
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Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers

Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA.

Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market
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Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market

Perched atop Berkeley's tallest building, the Berkeley Skydeck is a UC Berkeley campus-community partnership that could change the way emerging companies scale...
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