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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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No Guts, All Glory at Robot Soccer World Cup
Spectacular falls, miraculous goals, and footwork that would put the Premier League to shame—RoboCup 2014 has seen it all.
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Researchers Probe Security Through Obscurity
Obfuscation protects code by making it so impenetrable that access to it won't help a hacker understand how it works.
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Iran's Liberals and Conservatives Argue Over Internet Restrictions
When Iran's authorities started to block websites such as YouTube and Wikipedia in 2006, only a tenth of the population used the Internet.
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People in Leadership Positions May Sacrifice Privacy For Security
Researchers are examining how people with high-status job assignments assess security and privacy, and how impulsive or patient they are in making decisions.
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Virtual Finger Takes Scientists Through 3D Landscapes
Scientists will be able to use software called the Virtual Finger to navigate three-dimensional images of biological structures on computer screens.
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Some niversities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science
Just 18 percent of the computer science graduates from colleges and universities across the U.S. are women, down from 37 percent in 1985, but some schools are reporting...
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Electric Vehicles Drive Iot Research at Four Universities
Internet2 announced that it will provide four U.S. universities with an all-electric micro vehicle which will be used in a variety of research projects in Internet...
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Nsa Recruits College Students For Cyber-Operations Program
The U.S. National Security Agency has selected five more schools for its Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program.
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The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
The robots are coming, and they're getting smarter.
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Vancouver Coding Camp Seeks Young Women
Be Like Ada is a Vancouver, Canada-based coding boot camp for girls designed to inspire more women to pursue coding in engineering and computer science.
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For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work
Sverker Johansson could be the most prolific author you've never heard of.
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Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf Discusses the Fate of the Internet W/ Stephen Colbert (video)
Vint Cerf, Google Chief Internet Evangelist and general co-father of the Internet, stopped by The Colbert Report on Comedy Central to discuss the origins of the...
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Nasa Seeks Proposals For Europa Mission Science Instruments
NASA has issued an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for proposals about science instruments that could be carried aboard a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa...
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At Uvm, a Big Investment to Grow STEM
The University of Vermont is planning a $104-million investment in a new complex that will accommodate fields in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
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A Speech Synthesizer Direct to the Brain
A San Francisco neurosurgeon says he is working toward building a wireless brain-machine interface that could translate brain signals directly into audible speech...
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Colleges Work to Engage Women, Minorities in STEM Fields
A new initiative is designed to help faculty learn how to better engage women and underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Your Next Opponent in Angry Birds Could Be a Robot
A combination robot/smart-tablet system could become a future rehabilitation tool for children with cognitive and motor-skill disabilities.
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Most With College STEM Degrees Go to Work in Other Fields, Survey Finds
Students who graduate with a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are more likely than other graduates to be employed, but also...
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