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­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...

Solving the Data Science Conundrum
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Solving the Data Science Conundrum

The Explore Data Science Academy is looking to train an increasing number of data scientists in South Africa.

Three-Year College Degree Programs Get an 'F' Grade, Report Says
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Three-Year College Degree Programs Get an 'F' Grade, Report Says

Schools offering three-year bachelor's degrees to counter the rising costs of college education are failing students, according to an analysis by Johns Hopkins...

Computer Languages Cannot Teach the Skills Kids Learn in Foreign Language Classes
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Computer Languages Cannot Teach the Skills Kids Learn in Foreign Language Classes

The Texas State Board of Education has adopted criteria to change high school graduation requirements to allow advanced computer science courses to replace foreign...

The White House Just Started An AI Task Force
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The White House Just Started An AI Task Force

The Trump administration has announced a new AI task force that will promote American artificial intelligence efforts.

Who Pays the Most, and Least, in Silicon Valley?
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Who Pays the Most, and Least, in Silicon Valley?

How much do workers at tech firms make?

Volunteers Work to Save Vintage Train Simulator in Berlin
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Volunteers Work to Save Vintage Train Simulator in Berlin

Hydraulic systems jerk and pull the metal train cab back and forth as the driver pilots it along the tracks of Berlin's commuter rail system, as images of the city...

NSF-Funded Program to Train New Generation of Quantum Engineers
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NSF-Funded Program to Train New Generation of Quantum Engineers

Funded by a $1.6 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Harvard University...

If Knowledge Is Power, Then Coders Will Inherit the Earth
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If Knowledge Is Power, Then Coders Will Inherit the Earth

Fereshteh Forough and Barbara Liskov discuss their respective approaches to programming and computer science, the challenges and opportunities of being a woman...

Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local ­niversities
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Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local ­niversities

At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...

The Social Network Employers Love to Raid
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The Social Network Employers Love to Raid

Piazza Technologies Inc. is largely unknown by the general public but familiar to almost anyone who's studied computer science in the past few years.

The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
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The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back

One day in the summer of 2003, Shawn Carpenter, a security analyst in New Mexico, went to Florida on a secret mission. Carpenter, then thirty-five, worked at Sandia...

Computation Counts
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Computation Counts

Students are flocking to MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python, where they learn not just coding but computational thinking.

Why Silicon Valley Must Go to War
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Why Silicon Valley Must Go to War

Should technologists prevent their tools from being used to wage war? This question was answered with a furious yes at Google recently, when more than 3,000 employees ...

Most Americans Look to Research Universities for Innovation Leadership
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Most Americans Look to Research Universities for Innovation Leadership

A survey from the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation found that 71 percent of Americans believe research universities are a "major force" in driving...
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