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Deep-Sea Microbes, Simple Medical Diagnostic Tools and Complex Computing Win 2016 Macarthur 'genius Grants'
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Deep-Sea Microbes, Simple Medical Diagnostic Tools and Complex Computing Win 2016 Macarthur 'genius Grants'

Victoria Orphan, a geobiologist and explorer of marine life on the sea floor, is one of eight scientists to win a 'genius grant' this year from the philanthropic...

Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation
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Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation

SRI International, the Silicon Valley research lab where Apple's virtual assistant Siri was born, is working on a new generation of virtual assistants that respond...

Meet Rutgers' Radical Supercomputing Guru
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Meet Rutgers' Radical Supercomputing Guru

Rutgers Professor Shantenu Jha wants to enhance personalized medicine, global health, science, and engineering through high-performance computing.

Europe Proposes Copyright Reform to Help Scientists Mine Research Papers
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Europe Proposes Copyright Reform to Help Scientists Mine Research Papers

The European Commission has announced long-awaited plans to make it easier for researchers to harvest facts and data from research papers—by freeing the computer...

Nsf Awards $25m in Projects to Support the Computer Science For All Initiative
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Nsf Awards $25m in Projects to Support the Computer Science For All Initiative

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced more than $25 million in awards to support computer science education in the United States in support of the Obama...

Women Break Barriers in Engineering and Computer Science at Some Top Colleges
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Women Break Barriers in Engineering and Computer Science at Some Top Colleges

Women are making progress in enrollment in engineering and computer science at prestigious U.S. schools. More than 50 percent of engineering bachelor's degrees...

The Ftc Is Cracking Down on Predatory Science Journals
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The Ftc Is Cracking Down on Predatory Science Journals

In the last five years, open-access journals have cropped up all over the Internet. The looks of these publishers have deceived thousands of young and inexperienced...

Nsf Grant to Spur Public School Students' Interest in STEM
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Nsf Grant to Spur Public School Students' Interest in STEM

Wayne State University will received nearly $1.2 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to impact minority students' at Detroit Public Schools interest...

Obama's Computer Science For All Initiative Is Gaining Momentum
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Obama's Computer Science For All Initiative Is Gaining Momentum

Strong momentum for computer science education has been growing at all levels of U.S. government and in the private sector since President Obama announced eight...

Why Scientists Must Share Their Research Code
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Why Scientists Must Share Their Research Code

Many scientists worry over the reproducibility of wet-lab experiments, but data scientist Victoria Stodden's focus is on how to validate computational research:...

Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (ipads Sold Separately)
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Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (ipads Sold Separately)

Apple plans to release a free coding education app on Tuesday that it developed with middle-school students in mind, in the latest salvo among technology companies...

Cybathlon: World's First 'bionic Olympics' Gears ­p
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Cybathlon: World's First 'bionic Olympics' Gears ­p

Switzerland in October will host the world's inaugural Cybathlon, with 50 teams participating in sporting events to showcase bionic technologies. 

The Time I Went on Border Patrol in a Virtual Reality World
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The Time I Went on Border Patrol in a Virtual Reality World

I found myself on a desolate desert road, in front of a man who was leaning against the hood of a banged-up sedan and next to a United States Border Patrol agent...

Developing Scientific Computing Capabilities For the Workforce of Tomorrow
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Developing Scientific Computing Capabilities For the Workforce of Tomorrow

The Scientific Computing 102 summer internship program at Brookhaven National Laboratory prepared college students for the big data challenges facing researchers...

Silicon Valley Online Course to Mint Self-Driving Car Engineers
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Silicon Valley Online Course to Mint Self-Driving Car Engineers

Silicon Valley is creating a crash course in self-driving car technology to address a shortage of engineers with help from a startup in a different field: online...

Nasa Ran a Treasure Hunt For Robots to Develop Space Exploration Tech
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Nasa Ran a Treasure Hunt For Robots to Develop Space Exploration Tech

Over the past few days, a bunch of robots have taken part in a very serious treasure hunt.

The Rise of the Drone, and the Thorny Questions that Have Followed
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The Rise of the Drone, and the Thorny Questions that Have Followed

Today in the skies over New Mexico, Air Force students are practicing for the kill.

Cyber Skills in High Demand Well Into the Future
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Cyber Skills in High Demand Well Into the Future

The cybersecurity job market is wide open — if you have the skills. If you don't, there are plenty of opportunities to get up to speed and perhaps boost future...

How Apple Helped Create Ireland's Economies, Real and Fantastical
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How Apple Helped Create Ireland's Economies, Real and Fantastical

There are two equally valid, yet seemingly incompatible, ways of viewing Apple Computer's relationship with Ireland.

The Fbi's Latest Mission: Be Cool Enough to Recruit Hackers
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The Fbi's Latest Mission: Be Cool Enough to Recruit Hackers

The FBI has struggled for years to attract enough fresh hacker talent to defend America's computers.
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