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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Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World
Stanford University is introducing five free online classes in March as the next step in a university initiative to use new technologies to improve education....
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Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says
Cloud computing technologies will help create nearly 14 million technology-related jobs worldwide by 2015, resulting in $1.1 trillion in revenue annually, according...
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What Geography Can Teach S About Basketball
The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...
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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers
As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...
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New Computers Respond to Students' Emotions, Boredom
University of Notre Dame researchers have developed AutoTutor and Affective AutoTutor, intelligent tutoring programs that model and respond to students' cognitive...
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Educators, Innovators Call For Earlier Introduction to Computer Science
Many educators believe schools need to introduce computer science to students as early as kindergarten, while private companies are developing programs to mentor...
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Colleges Are rged to Cooperate to Bring More Women and Minorities Into Science
EducationCounsel and the American Association for the Advancement of Science recently offered a plan for producing more science and engineering graduates by bringing...
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Stem, Gender Parity, and Faculty Retention
Universities retain and promote men and women at similar rates in STEM departments, except for mathematics, according to a new study. However, the odds that any...
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Policing the Future
Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.
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Stanford Schooling - Gratis!
Stanford University's experiment with online classes could help transform computer science education.
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Computer Science Awards
Scientists worldwide are honored for their contributions to design, computing, science, and technology.
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Cybersecurity Research Gets Boost in 2013 Budget Request
President Obama's fiscal 2013 budget request prioritizes basic research and development in cybersecurity at the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland...
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Chicago Computer Scientists Develop Tools to Help Ecologists in Kenya
Computational ecology students at the University of Illinois at Chicago recently traveled to Kenya to conduct experiments using computer technology to collect wildlife...
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Google's Mind the Gap! Program Interests Women in CS
Two-hour sessions with female Google software engineers are convincing many female high-school students in Israel to change their majors to computer science and...
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Colleges Looking Beyond the Lecture
Science, technology, engineering, and math departments at many universities are redesigning the lecture as a style of teaching out of concern that it is driving...
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Share of Workers in Scientific Fields Shrinks
The number of U.S. workers in science and engineering professions fell in the past decade, ending a steady upward trend in the proportion of workers in fields associated...
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Big Data Spawns New Breed of 'data Scientist'
A new breed of data scientists is in demand as a result of the rise of big data. Government, universities, and industry are looking for people with a rare mix...
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The Other Academic Freedom Movement
In the summer of 1991, Paul Ginsparg, a researcher at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, set up an email system for about 200 string theorists to exchange papers...
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Computer Programs That Think Like Humans
University of Gothenburg researchers have developed software that can score 150 on a standard IQ test.
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