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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Google's Driverless-Car Czar on Taking the Human Out of the Equation
You devoted your life to human-driven transportation, engineering SUVs at Ford and taking Hyundai (as U.S. CEO and president) to record levels of sales in the U...
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In Memoriam: Seymour Papert 1928-2016
Papert was known for focusing on the impact of new technologies on learning, and on technology use in schools as learning organizations.
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Your Battery Status Is Being Used to Track You Online
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after ...
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'kudos' Promises to Help Scientists Promote Their Papers to New Audiences
Few people have heard of Michele Tobias's research field—and even fewer study it.
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Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award For Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing
2016 Richard Tapia Achievement Award Recipient: Dr. David Patterson
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Smartphone Apps For Social Good
Mobile apps make it easier, faster, and cheaper to create massive impact on social causes ranging from world hunger to domestic violence.
From Communications of the ACM
Open Source Software No Longer Optional
Open development and sharing of software gained widespread acceptance 15 years ago, and the practice is accelerating.
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Artificial Intelligence Camp Bridges STEM Gender Gap
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Outreach Summer allows high school girls to hear lectures and conduct research with faculty in Stanford's Artificial Intelligence...
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Program Gets Women Coding With Nasa Data
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently named 49 participants to its 2016 Datanauts program.
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More Female International Students Pursue STEM Degrees at .s. niversities
More female international students are attending U.S. universities to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math degrees.
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Will Ecole 42 Crack the Code of Learning?
A French institution may be a window into the future of coding education.
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Inside Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Engine Room
A complex in Prineville, OR, that houses Facebook servers recently was expanded with high-powered servers designed to accelerate research into machine learning....
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Apple's New App Will Teach the Next Generation How to Code
Apple's new Swift Playgrounds iPad application is designed to teach novices how to code, using the Swift programming language with their mobile devices.
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The Many Ways to Map the Brain
Brain mapping has come a long way since the days of Korbinian Brodmann.
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Robert Fano, Computing Pioneer and Founder of Csail, Dies at 98
A professor emeritus helped launch field of information theory and developed early time-sharing computers.
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DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...
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How to Keep More Girls in It at Schools If We're to Close the Gender Gap
The gender gap in the information technology industry is underscored by a lack of engagement of girls in computing and IT education.
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Brain-Data Gold Mine Could Reveal How Neurons Compute
Inspired by the large-scale sky surveys with which astronomers explore the cosmos, neuroscientists in Seattle, Washington, have spent four years systematically...
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Computer Hackers Don't Stand a Chance Against These Girls
The GenCyber program consists of 119 summer camps for girls sponsored by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Academy of Sciences.
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