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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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New Natural Selection: How Scientists Are Altering Dna to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life
Before human beings wrote books or did math or composed music, we made leather.
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New Girl Scout Badges Focus on Cybercrime, Not Cookie Sales
The goal is to prevent cyber attacks and restore trust in digital operations.
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How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms
At a White House gathering of tech titans last week, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump on how public schools...
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Code.org Gears p to Get 30,000 Students Psyched p About Computer Science
Code.org recently launched a free, year-long course that is designed to provide more than 30,000 low-income students the opportunity to learn how to program.
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Jean E. Sammet 1928-2017
Jean E. Sammet, an American computer scientist who served as the first female president of ACM, passed away on May 21 at the age of 89.
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Boys Say They're More Likely to Pursue STEM Careers Than Girls
Adolescent boys say they are more likely to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields than girls, according to a survey from Junior...
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How Scratch and Minecraft Developers Hope to Keep Kids Coding For Life
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab aim to nurture a lifelong enthusiasm for programming among young students, using the Scratch learn-to-code platform.
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Teaching Computer Science Is Great, But It's Not Enough
Although progress has been made on providing more computer science education to K-12 students, the United States is still years away from providing adequate CS education...
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Jennifer Rexford Announced as the 2017 Ncwit Harrold and Notkin Award Recipient
The award recognizes faculty members from non-profit institutions who distinguish themselves with outstanding research and excellent graduate mentoring.
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.s. Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment in Artificial Intelligence
The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to U.S. national...
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The 'time Machine' Reconstructing Ancient Venice's Social Networks
Only metres away from the tourist throngs that bustle through Venice's crowded piazzas, the silence inside Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is so profound it hurts...
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Why It's Important For the Tech Industry to Get More Young Girls Interested in STEM
Jewelbots CEO Sara Chipps says the de-socialization of girls from science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines starts early.
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A School District Is Building a Diy Broadband Network
The Albemarle County, VA, school district is building its own broadband network.
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AI Gets So-So Grade in Chinese niversity Entrance Exam
An artificial intelligence machine completed the math section of China's annual university entrance exam faster than human students, but with a below-average grade...
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A Stepping Stone to Stem?
Engineering technology courses at community colleges are serving as a pathway to STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) degrees and jobs.
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Chinese Exam Authorities se Facial Recognition, Drones to Catch Cheats
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor James Hendler Receives Inaugural Spotlight Award
Association of Moving Image Archivists honors Hendler for significant contributions to the field of media preservation and access.
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First Robotics Competitions Attract Students to STEM Education
An international youth organization challenges and encourages students to stick with science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...
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