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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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Revamping Storage Performance
Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.
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Better Medicine Through Machine Learning
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.
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Infosec Careers: The New Demands
A major goal for information security students and institutions should be developing a cultural way of learning, instead of simply studying for tests and doing...
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China Tops .s., Japan to Become Top Patent Filer
China became the world's top patent filer in 2011, surpassing the U.S. and Japan as it steps up innovation to improve its intellectual property rights track record...
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Answers to Google Interview Questions
1. What's the next number in this sequence: 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66 … ?
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How to Ace a Google Interview
Imagine a man named Jim. He's applying for a job at Google. Jim knows that the odds are stacked against him. Google receives a million job applications a year.
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Entry-Level It Jobs Will Be Plentiful in 2012, Experts Predict
There is a shortage of information technology (IT) workers in 18 states and Washington, DC, according to Dice.com. The shortage will probably drive entry-level...
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In Russia, the Lost Generation of Science
For the past decade, Russia has been pouring money into scientific research, trying to make up for the collapse of the 1990s, but innovation is losing out to...
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Prof Promises Supercomputer on Every Desktop
When Wu Feng looks at an iPad, he sees something more than a great way to play Fruit Ninja.
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Educators Look For Resources, New Programs Amid STEM Push
U.S. President Obama's push to prepare 100,000 new STEM educators over the next 10 years, the effort by the National Science Teachers Association to have science...
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Making Science Leap From the Page
When a college textbook, "Principles of Biology," comes out from the Nature Publishing Group in January, one place it won't be is on the shelves of school bookstores...
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Augmented Monoliths: Stonehenge Goes Digital
Ever wanted to stand at the centre of Stonehenge at summer solstice and appreciate the site’s beauty without the accompaniment of tourists or druids?
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Can Cornell Build a Silicon Valley Culture in New York City?
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Cornell University and its partner Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have been approved to build a...
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Initiative Aims For 100,000 New STEM Teachers
The 100Kin10 initiative — aims to increase the supply of math and science teachers by preparing 100,000 new ones over the next 10 years. It is based on President...
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7 Real, Functional Robots You Can Buy Right Now
You don't need top military clearance or a degree from MIT to use some of today's most advanced robots.
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Vast and Fertile Ground in Africa For Science to Take Root
Uganda's growing economy has produced an expanding middle class that wants advanced training in science and engineering.
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Help Is at Hand For Teachers Struggling With Technology
Teachers will be able to design and develop lesson plans using digital technologies as a result of a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council...
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Nsf Joins in Targeting Educators to Celebrate Computer Science Education Week 2011
The U.S. National Science Foundation recently began publishing CS Bits & Bytes, a one-page newsletter highlighting innovative computer science research, in recognition...
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Pentagon Fast-Tracks Hacker Research
The Pentagon has long had a love-hate relationship with computer hackers: On the outside, they can infiltrate vulnerable defense networks. On the inside, they...
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