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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Apple Helped Create Ireland's Economies, Real and Fantastical
There are two equally valid, yet seemingly incompatible, ways of viewing Apple Computer's relationship with Ireland.
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How Maggots Are Influencing the Future of Robotics
The European Union-funded MINIMAL project says the learning processes of fruit fly larva (maggots) could have important applications for technology.
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.s. State Department Tackles Gender Gap in STEM Participation
The U.S. Department of State is seeking to address the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
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Cornell Video Game Speeds Language Learning
Adding "fun" and "chat" aspects to the game enhances memorization and understanding of context.
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Majority of Mathematicians Hail from Just 24 Scientific 'families'
Most of the world's mathematicians fall into just 24 scientific 'families', one of which dates back to the fifteenth century.
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This Little-Known Pioneering Educator Put Coding in the Classroom
Papert argued that learning was most successful when students were engaged in creative acts – when they were making things.
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Harvey Mudd College Took on Gender Bias and Now More Than Half Its Computer-Science Majors Are Women
This year, at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, for the first time, more women than men graduated with a degree in computer science.
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Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web
Internauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991--25 years ago today--the public gained access for the first...
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Half of High School Seniors Lack Access to Computer Science
More than half of U.S. high school seniors attend schools that do not offer computer science courses.
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New Law in Mass. Attempts to Raise It Pay For Women
A new Massachusetts statute signed this month by Gov. Charlie Baker could help close the wage gap between men and women in the information technology industry.
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Robotics Can Get Girls Into Stem, but Some Still Need Convincing
A growing number of girls who are trying out robotics in a variety of forums are learning they have a knack for it.
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Let the Structural Symphony Begin
Like other structural biologists, Eva Nogales works in extraordinary times.
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ta Researcher Wins Grant to se Data Mining to Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of Depression
University of Texas at Arlington professor Heng Huang's data-mining efforts could help improve the diagnosis and treatment of depression.
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Tim Cook: Running Apple 'is Sort of a Lonely Job'
On a sleek white coffee table in Apple CEO Tim Cook's fourth-floor office in late July, beneath framed posters of Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King...
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When Computers Are The Hackers
A Pittsburgh company's cyber reasoning system takes the $2-million grand prize in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge.
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Donald E. Knuth Awarded Siam’s Highest Honor, Delivers the John Von Neumann Lecture
Knuth, who received the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1971 and the ACM A.M. Turing Award in 1974, was recognized for his contributions to mathematics and...
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Dot-Drawing With Drones
Researchers at McGill University are developing tiny drones to create dot drawings, an artistic technique known as stippling.
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Legal Confusion Threatens to Slow Data Science
Knowledge from millions of biological studies encoded into one network—that is Daniel Himmelstein's alluring description of Hetionet, a free online resource that...
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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