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AI Summit Aims to Help World's Poorest
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AI Summit Aims to Help World's Poorest

In the world's wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving...

Thomas Zacharia Named Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Thomas Zacharia Named Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Thomas Zacharia, the computing visionary whose work turned Oak Ridge National Laboratory into a global supercomputing power, has been selected as the laboratory's...

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...

Even Simple Cell Phone Conversations Can Cause Distracted Driving
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Even Simple Cell Phone Conversations Can Cause Distracted Driving

Research from the University of Iowa indicates that even simple cell phone conversations can affect the brain's ability to focus on the roadway.

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...

The Hard Truths of Navigating Ageism in It
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The Hard Truths of Navigating Ageism in It

Widespread age discrimination has become a central issue affecting many people working or seeking work in today's IT industry, according to legal and career experts...

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...

20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess

Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.

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.

Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? ­ncle Sam Wants to Review It
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Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? ­ncle Sam Wants to Review It

The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."

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...

The Virtual-Reality App That Turns Your Office Into a Vacation Paradise
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The Virtual-Reality App That Turns Your Office Into a Vacation Paradise

The British writer Charles Lamb was no stranger to workplace-induced despair.

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...

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...

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.

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. 
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