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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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This Robot Can Do More Push-ps Because It Sweats
Researchers from the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab say they have developed a more efficient way to cool humanoid robots.
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Preparing For the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Considering the utilization, opportunities, and future challenges of Artificial Intelligence.
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Google: Race and Gender Gaps Persist in Computer Science Education
New research from Google shows that black students are less likely to have computer science classes in school and are less likely to use computers at home even...
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Making Computer Science Accessible to All Students
The first national consensus document on U.S. computer science education provides standards on computer science concepts and practices by grade span in the areas...
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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Edinburgh offer a solution in which citations...
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Stepping p Security For an Internet-of-Things World
The vision of the so-called internet of things—giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover—has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast...
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China Has Now Eclipsed US in AI Research
Humanity may still be years if not decades away from producing sentient artificial intelligence.
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The Search For Virtual Reality's Killer App
Sony Corp.'s release of the PlayStation VR on Thursday brings virtual reality to the cusp of mainstream adoption.
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niversity to nveil .k.'s First Cave as Part of New Tech Hub
Edge Hill University is preparing to unveil the cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE), the U.K.'s first super-immersive three-dimensional virtual environment...
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Tornadogenesis
A University of Oklahoma researcher is using computational thinking to identify precursors of tornadoes by generating high-resolution simulations of supercell storms...
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Your Next Nurse Could Be a Robot
Researchers from Italy's Polytechnic University of Milan led an international team that trained a robot to imitate natural human actions.
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CM Computer Beats Humans in 'doom' Video Game
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are using the videogame "Doom" as an artificial intelligence research platform as part of the Visual Doom AI Competition....
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Making Construction Sites Safer
Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany want to make construction sites safer with interactive virtual reality training courses.
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Infosys Foundation sa, Acm, and Csta Announce Awards For Teaching Excellence in CS
ACM, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and Infosys Foundation announced the rollout of the Awards for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science.
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Even with Rising Wages, Robot Revolution Skips Restaurants
Clamshell grills are making burger flipping obsolete at McDonald’s, Johnny Rockets and other burger chains. Digital kiosks, tabletop tablets and mobile phones are...
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Professor's Research Lights p Scientific, Media Interest
University of Wyoming computer science professor Jeff Clune is the director of the Evolving Artificial Intelligence Lab, which conducts research on deep learning...
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White House to Bolster STEM Education, Close Skills Gap
The Obama administration has launched a new advanced placement computer science course as part of an interdisciplinary approach to improve STEM education for underrepresented...
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Removing Gender Bias From Algorithms
Machine-learning systems taught interesting patterns from data and documents fed into them could also pick up gender stereotypes from those sources.
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New Take on an Ancient Method Improves Way to Find Prime Numbers
Mathematician Harald Helfgott at Germany's University of Gottingen has proposed a way to improve an ancient method for finding prime numbers.
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