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ACM, CSTA Announce Cutler-Bell Prize Student Winners
The Cutler-Bell Prize promotes the field of computer science and empowers students to pursue computing challenges beyond the classroom environment.
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Demand for Blockchain Experts Surges Amid Skills Shortage
China's need for blockchain technology experts is soaring.
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British Cyber Option to Punish Russia Prompts Fear of 'Electronic War'
Of all the ways Theresa May could hit back against Russia over the poisoning of an agent on British soil, a cyberattack seems almost fitting.
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Cracking Open the Black Box of AI with Cell Biology
The deep neural networks that power today's artificial intelligence systems work in mysterious ways.
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Researchers Restore 'Feeling' to Lost Limbs, Kinda
The bionic hand closes slowly. Its slender metal digits whirr as they jitter into a loose fist, as though they are wrapping around an invisible baton.
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TSA Researchers Want to Teach Computers to Learn Like Humans
Researchers have created a new cloud-based learning platform for artificial intelligence designed to teach machines to learn like humans.
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Mechanical Harvesting of Papayas Might Be a Reality With Computational Technique
Researchers are investigating how papayas could be harvested mechanically using algorithms and computer vision.
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of R Researchers Developing Automated Pain Detection System for Dementia Patients
University of Regina researchers have developed a system that can recognize when non-verbal adults with dementia are in pain.
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Software Aims to Reduce Food Waste by Helping Those in Need
Iowa State University researchers have developed software to divert excess food to those in need.
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Off-the-Shelf Smart Devices Found Easy to Hack
Researchers have determined commercially available smart devices such as baby monitors, home security cameras, doorbells, and thermostats can easily be hacked for...
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Pi Day: What Is Pi and Where Did It Come From?
Today is Pi Day, an annual celebration of the famous mathematical concept that has fascinated people for millenia. But what exactly is π (pronounced like the word...
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Developers Love Trendy New Languages but Earn More with Functional Programming
Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow performs an annual survey to find out more about the programmer community, and the latest set of results has just been published...
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Behind the Broadcom Deal Block: Rising Telecom Tensions
Behind the U.S. move to block Singapore-based Broadcom's hostile bid for U.S. chip maker Qualcomm lies a new global struggle for influence over next-generation...
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Google Thinks It's Close to 'Quantum Supremacy.' Here's What That Really Means.
Seventy-two may not be a large number, but in quantum computing terms, it's massive.
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Teaching Computers to Guide Science: New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the Trees
Researchers have created a novel machine learning method that enables scientists to derive insights from highly complex systems in record time.
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AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
Deep neural network software driving innovation in consumer gadgets and automated driving is vulnerable to sabotage by hallucination, experts say.
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The Final Frontier's Final Frontier
The Space Test Program-Houston 6 hybrid and reconfigurable space supercomputer will board the International Space Station in about a year.
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Computing Gets Foggy
Fog computing offers a more effective way to address the challenges of distributed systems and Internet of Things devices.
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For Blind Gamers, Equal Access to Racing Video Games
A Columbia University student has created a new system to help the visually impaired play racing video games.
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