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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Students Win High-Performance Computing Competition
A team of students from the University of Cape Town in South Africa took first place in the Student Cluster Competition.
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Half of Academic Scientists Quit After Just Five Years–Here's Why
Indiana University researchers estimated that half of all people pursuing STEM careers at higher-education institutions leave the field after only five years. ...
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This Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
Cornell Tech's reputation for producing skilled technology graduates played a decisive role in Amazon's decision to build its new headquarters in New York City....
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How Russian Trolls sed Meme Warfare to Divide America
There's a meme on Instagram, circulated by a group called "Born Liberal." A fist holds a cluster of strings, reaching down into people with television sets for...
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STEM Toys Promise to Turn Kids Into Tech Geniuses. Grown-Up Coders Are Skeptical
Some programmers are doubtful that toys promising to imbue young minds with science, technology, engineering, and math skills can deliver on that promise.
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The Yoda of Silicon Valley
Donald Knuth, recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award for 1974, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, "The Art of Computer Programming."
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International Students Steer Clear of Graduate Programs in the nited States
The number of international students enrolling in U.S. graduate programs is falling, according to reports from the U.S. Council of Graduate Schools in Washington...
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Teachers Say There's a Disconnect in Computer Science Education
Eighty-eight percent of surveyed K-12 teachers said computer science is critical for students' career success, while two in 10 said their students are not taught...
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OR's New Supercomputer Has the Brains to Tackle Weather Forecasting, Physics, and More
Oral Roberts University has unveiled an $850,000 supercomputer, with the goal of bolstering the institution's science, technology, engineering, and math program...
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White House Outlines Five-Year STEM Push
The Trump administration has announced a five-year strategic plan for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
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NSF, NASA Announce Commitments to Support White House Strategic Plan on STEM Education
The National Science Foundation is expanding its diversity program to other federal agencies, and creating new graduate internship opportunities.
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How the .K. Plans to Teach Computer Science to Every Child
The Raspberry Pi startup will train 40,000 U.K. teachers to teach computer science, with the ultimate goal of teaching computer science to all U.K. schoolchildren...
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Tardos to Receive von Neumann Medal
Tardos was cited "For contributions to the field of algorithms, including foundational new methods in optimization, approximation algorithms, and algorithmic game...
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China Expands Research Funding, Luring .S. Scientists And Students
In 2003, Jay Siegel was up for a new challenge. Siegel was a tenured professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, but he took a job at the...
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You Will Be Replaced. Here's How
Route 9 skims by Boston and cuts clear across Massachusetts to Pittsfield, a city of roughly 50,000, the largest in Berkshire County.
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Breaking the Code: Program Trains Young Adults for Computer Industry
A program sponsored by the Resilient Coders nonprofit is training young adults of color in the Boston area to break into the computer industry.
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Harvard Wants to School Congress About AI
Harvard Kennedy School's Dipayan Ghosh and former U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler have launched a new AI policy initiative aimed at educating U.S. politicians and...
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Technology for the Deaf
Why aren't better assistive technologies available for those communicating using ASL?
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AI Judges and Juries
Artificial intelligence is changing the legal industry.
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