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Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity—an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search...I Programmer From ACM News | January 24, 2012
Georgia Tech researchers have studied the movements of snakes to create more efficient search-and-rescue robots.Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | January 19, 2012
Seven identical robots created and built at the UW will be flown to campuses across the country, where they will provide the first common research platform to develop...niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | January 13, 2012
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University say advanced computational tools will be the key to a new research project that, if successful, could enable doctors...Carnegie Mellon niversity From ACM Careers | January 10, 2012
After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian...The Los Angeles Times From ACM News | January 3, 2012
How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 13, 2011
Johns Hopkins University engineers are applying their expertise with medical robotics to show NASA how to fix valuable satellites that are breaking down or running...Johns Hopkins niversity From ACM Careers | December 6, 2011
Paleoanthropologist Glenn Conroy and colleagues have developed artificial neural network models that predict prime locations to search for fossils.Washington niversity in St. Louis From ACM Careers | November 22, 2011
VGo, a sleek white remotely-controlled robot , will soon be used by Baylor University Libraries to enrich cultural education for children in grades K-12 across...Baylor niversity From ACM Careers | November 17, 2011
A new partnership between the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Watermen's Museum in historic Yorktown Virginia lets schoolchildren use robotic subs...Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary From ACM Careers | November 8, 2011
A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, according to two researchers at the...The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 24, 2011
During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable...Scientific American From ACM News | October 17, 2011
A team of scientists has taken a major step toward developing robot biologists. They have shown that their system, the Automated Biology Explorer, can solve a complicated...Vanderbilt niversity From ACM Careers | October 14, 2011
Plans to develop the "smart" grid cannot succeed without the creation of new "thinking machines" that can learn and adapt to new situations, says Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy...Missouri niversity of Science and Technology From ACM Careers | October 12, 2011
Four years after the launching a robotics engineering program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute is the only university in the United States with bachelor's, master's...Worcester Polytechnic Institute From ACM Careers | October 5, 2011
Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...BBC News From ACM News | October 3, 2011
An exchange between two robot avatars set up as a demonstration for an artificial intelligence class at Cornell University quickly devolved into conversational...Cornell niversity From ACM Careers | August 31, 2011
As part of a dramatic effort to expand its IT offerings to a global audience, Stanford University will be offering 101-level courses free online on artificial...ZDNet From ACM Careers | August 30, 2011
A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...The New York Times From ACM News | August 18, 2011