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MIT Finger Device Reads to the Blind in Real Time
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired...
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Heads Up, World Cup Teams: The Robots are Coming
The RoboCup international robot soccer tournament aims to create a robot soccer team that can defeat the human World Cup champions by 2050.
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Python Bumps Off Java as Top Learning Language
Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S. students to programming and computer science, according to a survey published by ACM.
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Interview With the Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014: Wendy Hall
ComputerWeekly.com has named University of Southampton computer science professor Wendy Hall its Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014.
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California Public Schools to Incorporate More STEM Education
A task force on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education in California schools has given its recommendations to the state.
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Here's What the Leaders of Tech Told Graduates in 2014
Graduates around the world gather at the end of spring for one final lesson: the commencement speech.
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Ask the Crowd: Robots Learn Faster, Better With Online Helpers
University of Washington computer scientists have discovered crowdsourcing is an effective way to teach robots.
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Number of Women Entering IT Continues to Decline, Says BCS Report
A new report finds girls in the U.K. who study computing and information and communications technology at A-level perform at a higher level than boys.
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Rediscovered Plans Aid Edsac Reconstruction
The National Museum of Computing's reconstruction of an early British digital computer will benefit from the resurfacing of circuit diagrams of the machine.
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Basic Logic Research Crucial For Computer, Software Engineering
The success of informatics would have been impossible without the groundwork provided by logicians; and, in turn, computer sciences keep posing new interesting...
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Collaborative Learning--For Robots
A new algorithm enables independent agents to collaborate on a machine-learning model without aggregating data.
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Searching For Answers in Very Old Dna
As he puts it in the subtitle of his memoir, "Neanderthal Man," Svante Paabo goes in search of lost genomes.
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niversity of Oklahoma Students Develop App That Puts Weather Knowledge on Children's Radar
Elementary and middle-school students will be able to recognize and understand severe weather thanks to a new gaming app.
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Information School Team App For West African Fishermen Snags Sustainable Fishing Prize
A team from the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information won the grand prize of the Fishackathon programming challenge.
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Female Tech Staff 'in Decline' in the U.k.
A new report finds the gender gap in the U.K. information technology industry is getting worse.
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Mobile Apps Enable Professional Development
Continuing Education begins adapting to the smartphone.
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Computing Crime and Punishment
Scientists and historians have performed a computational analysis of historical court records in London.
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Revolutionizing How We Keep Track of Time in Cyber-Physical Systems
A U.S. National Science Foundation to five universities will support development of new clocking technologies, synchronization protocols, and control and sensing...
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New Computer Program Aims to Teach Itself Everything About Anything
Computer scientists say they have developed the first fully automated computer program that pairs textual and visual data to learn visual concepts.
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