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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Researchers Use Xbox Technology to Improve Programs
University of Texas at Arlington researchers are using Microsofte's Xbox Kinect technology to improve virtual sign language software.
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Engineering Universal Access For Learning
Bowie State University is promoting a universal design for learning to overcome the technological, social, and psychological barriers to equal education.
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Learning: No Longer a Textbook Case
Wake Forest University researchers are using emerging technologies to develop a new teaching method that better engages students who have learning disabilities...
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The Ph.d. Problem: Are We Giving Out Too Many Degrees?
In developed nations, the number of Ph.D.s given in the sciences each year has grown by almost 40% since 1998, reaching about 34,000 doctorates in 2008. This...
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Learning Science Through Gaming
An MIT-produced interactive game, "Vanished," now being played by thousands online, offers a novel experiment in alternative science education.
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Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science
Inside a darkened theater a viewer floats in a redwood forest displayed with Imax-like clarity on a cavernous overhead screen.
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Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.
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Deus Ex Machina
Computational metaphysics is helping philosophers answer age-old questions, such as whether God exists.
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Data Optimization in Developing Nations
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters...
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Computational Thinking 'vital For Child's Analytical Ability'
Computational thinking ought to be embedded within educational programs in order to cultivate children's analytical ability, says CMU professor Jeannette M. Wing...
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Creative, On-Line Learning Tool Helps Students Tackle Real-World Problems
Iowa State University researchers have developed ThinkSpace, a computer interface that helps students use what they have learned in horticulture classrooms and...
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Internet2 Turns 15. Has It Delivered on Its Promise?
The Internet2, which is reserved for research and education, recently received $100 million in new funding that will upgrade its backbone capacity to 8.8 terabytes...
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Computer Science Enrollments Rebound, p 10% Last Fall
Computer science enrollments increased for the third consecutive year at Ph.D.-granting institutions, are up 10 percent from a year ago, but are still below the...
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.s. Lagging in sing Technology, Study Shows
The World Economic Forum's annual study on national computing and communications technology use found that the United States ranked fifth out of 138 countries for...
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Students Turn Cell Phone Into Mobile Microscope
Students at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Central Florida have developed a way to turn smartphones into virtual microscopes that can...
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High-Performance Computing Cluster Will Aid Research
Temple University has a new high-performance computer cluster comprised of more than 100 nodes that will significantly enhance the high-speed computing capabilities...
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Augmented Reality Interface Exploits Human Nervous System
The most important function of the brain is figuring out what to ignore: Research suggests that we can process only about one percent of the visual information...
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Google Manager: Technology Needs to Attract More Women
The technology industry needs to do more to bring women into the field, according to Google's Marissa Mayer. Speaking during a recent conference, Mayer said girls...
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Moshe Y. Vardi, 2011 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award Recipient
"For fundamental and lasting contributions to the development of logic as a unifying foundational framework and a tool for modeling computational systems."
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