Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...
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Big Data Brings Big Academic Opportunities
Many colleges and universities are developing advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data.
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Digging For Drug Facts
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.
From Communications of the ACM
Redesigning the Data Center
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
From Communications of the ACM
Computer Science and the Three Rs
A growing sense of crisis prevails as computer science searches for its place in the K--12 curriculum.
From ACM TechNews
The Machines Are Taking Over
Giving computer programs the ability to educate students like a personal tutor is the goal of Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Neil Heffernan, whose efforts...
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Alan Turing at 100
Harvard University is celebrating Alan Turing's 100th birthday with a new exhibit titled, "Go Ask A.L.I.C.E., Turing Tests, Parlor Games, and ChatterBots," which...
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Europeana's Huge Cultural Dataset Opens For Reuse
The digital portal Europeana has made its dataset of more than 20 million cultural objects available to be used freely by developers, designers, and other digital...
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Online Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences
Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe recently launched the WitsOn project, which organizes hundreds of prominent women working in STEM industries to become...
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Open Source Education Software Unveiled By Google
Google has released Course Builder, open source software for creating online education courses.
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Collaborative STEM Programs at Rutgers-Camden Produce New Opportunities and Friendships
STEM students at Rutgers University-Camden have access to scholarship and academic support thanks to a $600,000 U.S. NSF grant that aims to support high-achieving...
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Fujitsu to Build Software Robot to Pass College Entrance Exams
IDG News ServiceFujitsu will develop software designed to enable artificial intelligence to pass the math portion of the University of Tokyo's entrance exam byView...
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Southampton Engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer
University of Southampton researchers have developed Iridis-Pi, a supercomputer made from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego.
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A U.s.-Israel Collaboration in Computer Science
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation recently announced the U.S.-Israel Collaboration in Computer Science...
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Estonia Reprograms First Graders as Web Coders
Estonian public schools recently launched a program to develop a curriculum for teaching Web and mobile application development to students as early as first grade...
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Bridging the STEM Gap With Girl Scouts
The Girl Scout Research Institute recently found that girls' future career choices are more influenced by inspiring role models than by academic interests.
From ACM Opinion
Review: Raspberry Pi
You can get a lot for $35 these days. It bought me what looks like a credit card-size James Bond gadget prototype but is actually a fully functional computer.
From ACM Opinion
The Jet Propulsion Lab Is Way Weirder (and Awesomer) Than You Even Imagined
For a center of cutting-edge scientific research, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab seems to be a pretty wacky place. Luke Johnson, a graphic designer at the lab, set...
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The Joys of rban Tech
For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley, North Carolina's...
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