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Maria Klawe: Esteemed Computer Scientist. Proud Mathematician. Watercolor Painter.
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Maria Klawe: Esteemed Computer Scientist. Proud Mathematician. Watercolor Painter.

One of the chief goals of Maria Klawe as president of Harvey Mudd College has been to encourage women to enter computer science.

Met Office to Build £97m Supercomputer
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Met Office to Build £97m Supercomputer

The facility will work 13 times faster than the current system, enabling detailed, UK-wide forecast models with a resolution of 1.5km to be run every single hour...

How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its ­sers Consume Journalism
From ACM News

How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its ­sers Consume Journalism

Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy.

This Guy's Quest to Track Every Shot in the Nba Changed Basketball Forever
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This Guy's Quest to Track Every Shot in the Nba Changed Basketball Forever

As a kid, Kirk Goldsberry was a rabid basketball fan. But this was the 1980s, and living near Penn State meant his house wasn't quite close enough to Philadelphia...

Software Tackles Inflatable Structures
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Software Tackles Inflatable Structures

Creating optimal 3D shapes in inflatables requires the power of computation.

Materials Trick Might Help Move Computers Beyond Silicon
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Materials Trick Might Help Move Computers Beyond Silicon

After decades of repeated reinvention, the silicon transistor is starting to show its age, and the industry is hunting for alternatives.

Indiana ­niversity Investing $7 Million For New Complexity Institute
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Indiana ­niversity Investing $7 Million For New Complexity Institute

Indiana University recently announced the establishment of the Indiana University Network Science Institute, a $7-million initiative to examine complex networks...

Wellesley College Researchers Seek the Truth via Twitter Trails
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Wellesley College Researchers Seek the Truth via Twitter Trails

Researchers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts have developed a tool that examines how true and false stories propagate on Twitter. 

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Awards Data Science Grant to Carnegie Mellon Researcher
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Awards Data Science Grant to Carnegie Mellon Researcher

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has named Carnegie Mellon University professor Carl Kingsford a Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery. 

Precise and Programmable Biological Circuits
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Precise and Programmable Biological Circuits

ETH Zurich researchers say several new components for biological circuits are important for constructing precisely functioning and programmable bio-computers. 

Quantum Internet Could Cross Seas By Container Ship
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Quantum Internet Could Cross Seas By Container Ship

Container ships could be used to create a kind of international quantum Internet.

From Brain To Computer: Helping 'locked-In' Patient Get His Thoughts Out
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From Brain To Computer: Helping 'locked-In' Patient Get His Thoughts Out

In 2009, a man named Barry Beck suffered a series of strokes, which caused extensive damage to his right occipital lobe and to the brain stem.

Vimeo Tech Chief Takes on 'terrifying' Online Video Challenges
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Vimeo Tech Chief Takes on 'terrifying' Online Video Challenges

Think online video is old hat? Think again.

Future Scenarios Show How Easily Ebola Could Explode
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Future Scenarios Show How Easily Ebola Could Explode

Just how bad will the Ebola outbreak in West Africa get?

The Scent of a Comet: Rotten Eggs and Pee
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The Scent of a Comet: Rotten Eggs and Pee

Eau de Comet isn't, we now know, the most seductive scent floating around in our galaxy. The Rosetta probe's Rosetta Orbiter Sensor for Ion and Neutral Analysis...

Data Mining Reveals How News Coverage Varies Around the World
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Data Mining Reveals How News Coverage Varies Around the World

Researchers have analyzed news agendas in different parts of the world to see how the coverage reflects actual international events. 

­sing Cash and Pressure, China Builds Its Chip Industry
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­sing Cash and Pressure, China Builds Its Chip Industry

China wants to transform its chip industry into a world leader by 2030 and become less reliant on foreign-sourced technology. 

Google Teams ­p With Oxford Academics to Bring Human-Like Robots Closer to Reality
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Google Teams ­p With Oxford Academics to Bring Human-Like Robots Closer to Reality

Google is collaborating with Oxford University researchers to help machines better understand users, and to improve visual-recognition systems using deep learning...

Rosetta's Comet Scrambling Its Jets
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Rosetta's Comet Scrambling Its Jets

This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by Rosetta's Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) on Sept. 20, from a distance...

Is the City of the Future Finally Here?
From ACM TechNews

Is the City of the Future Finally Here?

A presentation during the Argonne OutLoud series considered how computer technologies can help mitigate challenges associated with increased urbanization. 
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