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Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
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Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students

To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher's lessons on climate change seemed explicitly...

How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
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How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide

"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...

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?

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

Monument to Peer Review ­nveiled in Moscow
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Monument to Peer Review ­nveiled in Moscow

A 1.5-tonne stone tribute to peer review is the latest addition to Moscow's rich cultural heritage.

When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism
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When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism

On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...

Who Feels the Pain of Science Research Budget Cuts?
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Who Feels the Pain of Science Research Budget Cuts?

Science funding is intended to support the production of new knowledge and ideas that develop new technologies, improve medical treatments and strengthen the economy...

Why Researchers Should Share Computer Code
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Why Researchers Should Share Computer Code

An article published in the journal Nature Neuroscience provides conventions and tools that researchers can use to make code sharing easier and more efficient. ...

Silicon Valley's Big Three vs. Detroit's Golden-Age Big Three
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Silicon Valley's Big Three vs. Detroit's Golden-Age Big Three

Over the last 20 years, the technology industry has become the most powerful industry in the world, boasting seven of the 20 most profitable companies.

The 10 Best Computer Science Schools in Europe
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The 10 Best Computer Science Schools in Europe

A computer science degree from a top university can help graduates land their dream job. Which universities have the top computer science and information systems...

Top Hacker Conference to Target Voting Machines
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Top Hacker Conference to Target Voting Machines

Hackers will target American voting machines—as a public service, to prove how vulnerable they are. 

Can the American Heartland Remake Itself in the Image of Silicon Valley? One Startup Finds Out
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Can the American Heartland Remake Itself in the Image of Silicon Valley? One Startup Finds Out

Ross Diedrich had gone pale and raw-boned. The CEO of a year-old startup in Denver, he'd stay at his office until the middle of the night, go home and sleep for...
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