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Why Microsoft Measures Employee Thriving, Not Engagement
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Why Microsoft Measures Employee Thriving, Not Engagement

Dawn Klinghoffer and Elizabeth McCune of Microsoft's People Analytics team studied how to keep employees thriving, that is, energized and empowered to do meaningful...

Higgs Boson Discoverers Publish Refined Measurements
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Higgs Boson Discoverers Publish Refined Measurements

Experimenters marked this week's 10-year anniversary of the Higgs discovery by releasing comprehensive new measurements of the particle.

Taxonomy Makes Machine-Learning Model Features More Understandable
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Taxonomy Makes Machine-Learning Model Features More Understandable

MIT researchers have developed a taxonomy to improve the interpretability of features of machine learning models so that data scientists will be more comfortable...

Wimbledon Hoping Big Data Will Improve Fan Experience
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Wimbledon Hoping Big Data Will Improve Fan Experience

All England Club and IBM are offering a tool that aims to keep Wimbledon fans engaged with detailed AI-powered stats.

Making Art Through Computation
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Making Art Through Computation

MIT graduate student Chelsi Cocking develops software to use as artistic tools, including facial detection techniques, body tracking software, and machine learning...

Women in Science Receive Less Credit for Their Contributions
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Women in Science Receive Less Credit for Their Contributions

Women in science are less likely than their male counterparts to receive authorship credit for the work they do, a new study finds.

Researchers Build An Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm
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Researchers Build An Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm

A group of Cornell physicists and computer scientists developed an unsupervised machine learning method that can automatically extract charge density wave order...

Researchers Hope Fireflies Will Aid Robot Communication
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Researchers Hope Fireflies Will Aid Robot Communication

Researchers from the University of Colorado are studying the Great Smoky Mountains' synchronous fireflies to determine whether understanding the way they communicate...

Researcher to Use Machine Learning to Improve Cancer Treatments
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Researcher to Use Machine Learning to Improve Cancer Treatments

Assistant Professor Tin Nguyen has received a $490,039 U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop machine learning techniques to determine how an...

Large Language Models Will Change Science
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Large Language Models Will Change Science

Advances in natural language processing and large language models are making it possible for machines to understand natural language, including the prose in scientific...

Computer Code May Help Speed Up Airport Security
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Computer Code May Help Speed Up Airport Security

The challenge of moving passengers and flight crews through airport security quickly while keeping safety precautions in place led to the Open Threat Assessment...

Using Math to Improve Your Workout
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Using Math to Improve Your Workout

Exercise physiologist and University of Montreal Adjunct Professor Guy Thibault is developing a web application for interval training.

CS Student Uses TikTok Dance Videos and AI to Generate 3D Avatars
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CS Student Uses TikTok Dance Videos and AI to Generate 3D Avatars

University of Minnesota computer science Ph.D. student Yasamin Jafarian has been using TikTok dance videos as food for a computer algorithm to construct lifelike...

Mathematical Shortcut Estimates Quantum Coherence Time
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Mathematical Shortcut Estimates Quantum Coherence Time

Scientists have uncovered a mathematical shortcut for approximating in an instant a material's quantum coherence time.

Has the Data Science Field Become Less Competitive?
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Has the Data Science Field Become Less Competitive?

A few mild yet significant signs indicate that data science as a job might be losing its sheen.

Automatic Information System Extracts Scientific Articles on COVID-19
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Automatic Information System Extracts Scientific Articles on COVID-19

A team of researchers created the VIGICOVID system that uses natural language questions to get answers in the avalanche of research papers on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV...

Top Computer Science Grad School Rankings Unveiled
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Top Computer Science Grad School Rankings Unveiled

Rankings based on a survey of academics for the best computer science graduate schools in the United States have been released.

Russians Are Racing to Download Wikipedia Before It Gets Banned
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Russians Are Racing to Download Wikipedia Before It Gets Banned

Data suggests that Russians are downloading and making local copies of Wikipedia, following reports that Russia's censorship office had threatened to block it. ...

Researcher Uses 379-Year-Old Algorithm to Crack Crypto Keys
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Researcher Uses 379-Year-Old Algorithm to Crack Crypto Keys

Researcher Hanno Böck reports breaking cryptographic keys generated with older software now owned by technology company Rambus by using Fermat's factorization method...

China's Gig Workers Are Challenging Their Algorithmic Bosses
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China's Gig Workers Are Challenging Their Algorithmic Bosses

Gig workers in China are using food-delivery platforms' data-driven systems, mass WeChat groups, and unofficial unions to fight unfair conditions.
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