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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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No Boys Allowed: Girls Who Code Takes on Gender Gap
The nonprofit Girls Who Code's summer program has grown from 20 girls in one classroom in 2012 to 380 girls in classrooms at 16 companies across the country.
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A Grand Vision For the Impossible
Subhash Khot's bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limitations of computation.
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STEM Partnerships Connect Students to Schools and Libraries
Public libraries have started partnering with local schools to provide science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to students. A recent survey...
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Can an Armadillo Paper Airplane Fly? Autodesk Says Yes
We've all made the standard paper airplane, that elongated triangle made up of six simple folds.
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Augmented Reality Gives Physical World a Vrtual Dimension
For some it seems, the world is not enough.
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Alternative STEM Programs Offer Early Career Prep For Students
The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program's Summer Bridge program included more than 20 high school students who took college-level math courses and interned...
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Who's Teaching the Computer Science Teachers?
Introducing computer science to students early in their educational careers will require teachers who are trained to teach it.
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Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley
Sam Altman sits behind his desk with his knees pulled up to his chest, eating dried apricots.
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C'mon Girls, Let's Program a Better Tech Industry
According to one professor, females' perception of information and communication technology is a key reason many women and girls do not enter the field.
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Nyc Schools to Use Video Games to Teach Computer Coding
Scalable Game Design, a program that teaches kids to code using video games, is being introduced into New York City public schools.
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Security Secrets, Dated but Real
Was the National Cryptologic Museum designed using a code of some kind?
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Where Tech Is Taking s: A Conversation With Intel's Genevieve Bell
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.
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What 6.9 Million Clicks Tell S About How to Fix Online Education
Researchers at the MIT have analyzed data from Harvard University and MIT's shared online learning platform to gain a richer understanding of what makes massively...
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Finally, a Way to Teach Coding to the Touchscreen Generation
First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation.
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Why Many Programmers Don't Bother Joining the ACM
Earlier this month Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol and current Google vice president, openly asked professional programmers for feedback regarding...
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If You Want to Be Rich and Powerful, Majoring in STEM Is a Good Place to Start
Early education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics builds some of the key competencies necessary for success.
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Specialists Gather in Praise of Logic
The Vienna Summer of Logic combined a number of conferences into a scientific and cultural mega-event.
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The Need For Speed
Researchers are using high-performance computers to achieve new breakthroughs in science and engineering.
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Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body
Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
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