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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Free Computer Science Courses, New Teaching Technology Reinvent Online Education
Stanford professors will offer popular computer science courses online for free in the autumn, and are launching an experiment that could radically change the delivery...
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Intel Recruits Sci-Fi Writers to Dream Up Future Tech
Chip maker Intel has commissioned leading science fiction authors to pen short stories that imagine future uses for the firm's technology.
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Nasa and Tor-Forge Books Partner in Themed Science Fiction Works
In an effort to introduce, inform, and inspire readers about NASA, the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, has partnered with Tor-Forge Books...
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Romance vs. STEM
State University of New York at Buffalo professor Lora Park recently completed a series of research projects, the results of which suggest that when college-age...
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Remaking American Medicine
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Invasion of the Mobile Apps
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course
A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...
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Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller
On Thursday, Aug. 4, the MIT Press held a party in MIT's Stata Center to celebrate the sale of the 500,000th copy of the textbook Introduction to Algorithms....
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10 Award-Winning Scientific Simulation Videos
Thanks to increasingly cheap, fast, efficient computing power, scientific simulations are now a crucial tool for researchers who want to ask once impractical...
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Nmsu Las Cruces Program Helps Women Break Into Computer Science
New Mexico State University's Young Women in Computing program is designed to cultivate interest in computer science among middle and high school girls and to...
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Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?
It happens every summer. In the weeks after the annual National College Entrance Examination, new high school graduates wait for the list. For years, who gets...
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China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower
China was probably the world's earliest technological superpower, inventing the plow, the compass, gunpowder, and block printing. Then, science in the Middle...
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Microsoft's Imagine Cup Competition Seeks Diversity
This year students from six historically black colleges and universities competed in Microsoft's Imagine Cup, and although none of the teams made it to the finals...
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Competition Seeks STEM Innovations
The Carnegie Corporation of New York and other groups have partnered to launch Partnering for Excellence: Innovations in Science+Technology+Engineering+Math Education...
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Game Design Engages Students in STEM
The University of Massachusetts' Design Camps is aimed at middle and high school students and teaches them to create and program robots, build circuits, and complete...
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Colleges Join Plan For Faster Computer Networks
A coalition of 29 American universities is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks—with Internet service several hundred...
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University of Utah Computer Science Camp Teaches Kids About Technology
This summer the University of Utah is hosting 350 students in elementary, middle, and high school for one- and two-week computer science camps.
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National Academies Call For Science Education Makeover
A new U.S. National Research Council report calls for reforming science teaching nationwide from kindergarten to high school, saying that current high school graduates...
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Stanford
What better way to combine your nerdy loves of computer programming and Star Wars than with a robot that can actually battle with a light saber?
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