Communications of the ACM
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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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New Software Brings Science to Life For Young People
Researchers at the Economic and Social Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have developed nQuire, a software toolkit that...
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National Convocation Highlights Best Practices for Improving STEM Education
Advances in science and engineering will be largely responsible for future economic growth and job creation, according to a new report issued by the U.S. National...
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Women in Science? Universities Don't Make the Grade
Efforts to close the gap between men and women in STEM fields often focus on students instead of faculty and institutional structures, according to a study that...
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Making Research Careers More Family-Friendly: White House and Nsf Announce New Policies
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the Career-Life Balance Initiative, which gives researchers more flexibility in the workplace and helps remove...
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'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians
The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...
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Technically, Science Will Be Less Lonely For Women When Girls Are Spurred Early
Girls are being sent a message at a young age that careers in math and science are marked by social isolation and will make them seem less attractive. However,...
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Success at 16
A high school student wins first prize from ACM for developing a faster keyboard layout.
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Living in a Digital World
Technology has created new opportunities to connect and interact. Yet, researchers are increasingly concerned that heavy technology usage is changing people's behavior...
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Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces
Researchers are demonstrating advances in restorative BCI systems that are giving paralyzed individuals more effective ways to communicate, move, and interact with...
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White House Targets Innovative Education Technologies
The White House has formed a nonprofit organization, Digital Promise, to create new learning technologies that will help improve the performance of U.S. students...
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Shwetak Patel: 2011 Macarthur Fellow
Shwetak Patel is a computer scientist who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving...
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Schoolchildren to Be Taught How to Write Software
The British government has decided to start teaching pre-General Certificate of Secondary Education students how to write software as part of its effort to transform...
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Ursi Project Pushes Bounds of Artificial Intelligence
Professor Ken Livingston and his team at Vassar College's Undergraduate Research Summer Institute explored ways to optimize a robot's processing speed and allow...
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Students Create Virtual Realities in Campus Lab
The University of Maine's Virtual Environment and Multimodal Integration Lab has given undergraduate students the opportunity to explore their interests in human...
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Chinese Students Are Storming .s. Grad Schools: They Have the Money and the Brains
If you build it, they will come. No, I'm not talking about a baseball field amidst stalks of corn but the educational institutions dotting the U.S. landscape...
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In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As...
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Why They Chose STEM
Although most U.S. college students pursuing STEM degrees decided to do so in high school, just 20 percent said that their pre-college education prepared them "extremely...
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Nasa Gives Public New Internet Tool to Explore the Solar System
NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool.
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Robot Teaches English as Second Language
Pasadena City College professor Ron Chang Lee has developed interactive robots that help students learn English as a second language.
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