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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Digital Public Library of America: Adding Gravitas to Your Internet Search
One year ago, a group of professors, librarians, and futurists gathered in San Francisco to discuss how they would go about building a Digital Public Library of...
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Virtual Traveller: Beam a Live, 3D You Into the World
A new virtual reality system combines 3D glasses and a hack of Microsoft's Kinect to enable life-sized images of people to be recreated in a virtual space.
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Military Academies Take on Nsa in Cybersecurity Competition
The Cyber Defense Exercise is an annual cybersecurity contest in which teams from U.S. military academies compete against one from the National Security Agency. ...
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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...
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Scientists Develop Computer Games to Keep Miners Safe
Researchers are developing interactive computer games to train miners to avoid fatal accidents and potential emergencies while working in mines.
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Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents
To be a good coder in Silicon Valley is to be among the pampered elite.
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C San Diego Computer Scientists Develop First-person Player Video Game That Teaches How to Program in Java
CodeSpells is an immersive, first-person player video game designed to teach students how to program in Java.
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Scientific Articles Accepted (personal Checks, Too)
The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional...
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Uruguay’s One Laptop Per Child Program: Impact and Numbers
Uruguay has distributed more than 500,000 free laptops to its students and teachers over the last five years as part of its Plan Ceibal.
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17 of Apple's Favorite Apps
Steve Jobs was a stickler for detail, requiring final approval on everything from ads to wording on his Keynote presentations. It's no surprise then that the company...
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New Test For Computers: Grading Essays at College Level
Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the "send" button when you...
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From Touch Displays to the Surface: A Brief History of Touchscreen Technology
It's hard to believe that just a few decades ago, touchscreen technology could only be found in science fiction books and film. These days, it's almost unfathomable...
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A Leader of Obama's New Brain Initiative Explains Why We Need It
Neuroscientist William Newsome of Stanford University is one of two scientists tapped by President Obama to lead a new brain research initiative, which the administration...
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Visa Demand Jumps
For the first time since the financial crisis, U.S. employers are expected within days to reach a limit on the yearly allotment of applications for coveted skilled...
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Obama to nveil Initiative to Map the Human Brain
President Obama on Tuesday will announce a broad new research initiative, starting with $100 million in 2014, to invent and refine new technologies to understand...
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Moocs Strategize To Generate Revenue
MOOCs are being pressed to come up with revenue-producing business models. Are they being held to a higher standard than other Internet startups?
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The Child, the Tablet, and the Developing Mind
I recently watched my sister perform an act of magic.
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Google Australia Funds Universities to Spur Computer Science
Google Australia is providing funding to 12 universities to develop workshops to help high school teachers promote computer science in their curricula.
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