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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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Sc15 Chair on Hpc Transforms, Diversity Outreach, and Austin
In an interview, Jackie Kern, general chair of the SC15 conference, shares her agenda for the year and plans for the event.
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Facebook Invents an Intelligence Test For Machines
Artificial intelligence researchers want to develop more comprehensive exams to test their systems.
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Kids and Robots Learn to Write Together
Young children can use a new program to teach a humanoid robot how to write letters and improve their writing skills at the same time.
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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Oxford Celebrates 200th Birthday of Ada Lovelace
This year, the University of Oxford will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of computer visionary Ada Lovelace.
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...
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Google Wants to Rank Websites Based on Facts Not Links
The internet is stuffed with garbage.
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Pentagon Shops in Silicon Valley For Game Changers
A small group of high-ranking Pentagon officials made a quiet visit to Silicon Valley in December to solicit national security ideas from start-up firms with little...
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Changing the World One Hackathon at a Time
Sixty-six teens are taking part in the My Brother's Keeper Hackathon, a group coding competition spearheaded by Qeyno Labs CEO Kalimah Priforce.
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w Researches Ways to Draw Women Toward Science Majors
Female leaders at the University of Wisconsin are looking for ways to address the inequalities for women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields...
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Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans at Classic Arcade Games
A recent article recounts how a team of artificial intelligence researchers trained a computer to play, and in some cases beat, human players in several arcade...
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How Madden Ratings Are Made
Hunched over a keyboard, surrounded by computer monitors, Donny Moore, 37, controls the fate of the National Football League.
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Professor Develops Tool to Speed Data Collection
The Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System is a Web application that helps accelerate the collection of research data.
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Game-Playing Software Holds Lessons For Neuroscience
DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial-intelligence company, has revealed how it created a single computer algorithm that can learn how to play 49 different arcade...
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Python at 25
Guido van Rossum speaks exclusively with CACM about the computer language Python, which he created a quarter-century ago.
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Rare Stegosaurus Skeleton Delivers Secrets Through 3D Scanning
In 2013, London's Natural History Museum acquired a rare Stegosaurus skeleton.
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Python For Beginners
A survey found the language in use in introductory programming classes in the top U.S. computer science schools.
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What 'the Imitation Game' Didn't Tell You About Turing's Greatest Triumph
"The Imitation Game" does a poor job of accurately portraying pioneer Alan Turing's contributions to computer science.
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What 'the Imitation Game' Didn't Tell You About Turing's Greatest Triumph
Freeman Dyson, 91, the famed physicist, author and oracle of human destiny, is holding forth after tea-time one February afternoon in the common room of the Institute...
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