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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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The Anti-Plagiarism Machine
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.
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.k. Government to Lead Review Into Computer Science Degrees
The U.K. government launched a £6 billion Science and Innovation strategy, including the funding of an independent review into computer science degree accreditation...
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Students' Raspberry Pi Computers to Run on International Space Station
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has partnered with the U.K. European Space Agency and U.K. space companies to offer an Astro Pi competition that will challenge students...
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Innovators of Intelligence Look to Past
Inside the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, known as AI2, everything is a gleaming architectural white.
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Material Question
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...
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Aiming For 1 Million 'girls Who Code'
Women are the majority in the workforce, in college, and as income earners, but they are being left out of innovating, says Reshma Saujani, who wants to introduce...
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Dumbing It Down in the Cockpit
Long gone are the leather jackets, goggles, and silk scarves flung over the shoulders of aviators who wrestled with flight controls, furiously scanned instruments...
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Boston Researcher Cynthia Breazeal Is Ready to Bring Robots Into the Home. Are You?
The MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group flanks the soaring atrium on the fourth floor of the Wiesner Building, a wall of metal panels along the southern edge...
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Print Thyself
In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month...
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How 'hour of Code' Sparked a Movement That Could Teach 100 Million People to Code
This week is Computer Science Education Week and Code.org hopes unprecedented numbers of students and ordinary people take part in its Hour of Code event.
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Baer's Odyssey: Meet the Serial Inventor Who Built the World's First Game Console
Even if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer.
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Rethinking Low Completion Rates in Moocs
A researcher wants to provide greater clarity about low completion rates for massively open online courses by examining the intent of those who sign up.
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Why Don't More Minority Students Seek STEM Careers? Ask Them.
A group of minority students identified eight major themes in ways to enhance their science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) training.
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Google's Intelligence Designer
Demis Hassabis started playing chess at age four and soon blossomed into a child prodigy.
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A 24-Hour Social Innovation Hackathon to Fight World Hunger
In late November, people gathered at the University of California, Berkeley to participate in a Social Innovation Hackathon.
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Csedweek Gains Momentum
The Hour of Code event alone could have as many as 100 million participants worldwide.
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A Googler's Quest to Teach Machines How to nderstand Emotions
Quoc Le sees the world as a series of numbers.
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Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper
When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...
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Co-Robots Team Up With Humans
A group of researchers believe people and robots will be able to accomplish much more by working together, as long as robots have common sense.
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