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Self-Assembly Required: One Scientist's Bid to Build Cancer-Killing Nanorobots
The term "cancer killing nanorobot" could conjure up all sorts of images, the best involving teeny tiny laser eyebeams.
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Researchers Try New 'twist' on Smartwatches
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a prototype smartwatch that can be controlled by the wearer's hand gestures, or by clicking its face.
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Devices That Know How We Really Feel
Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.
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Internationally Renowned Informatics Center Names New Scientific Director
Professor Raimund Seidel took on the role of Scientific Director of Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics on May 1, 2014, as successor to founding director...
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In Virtual Town of Alphaville, Students Prep For Cyber Sieges
The Michigan Cyber Range uses the virtual town of Alphaville to help train cybersecurity students to secure critical infrastructure.
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Computer System Automatically Solves Word Problems
A new computer system can automatically solve the type of word problems common in introductory algebra classes.
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Standards For Computer Science Education Need Improvement
During the recent U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference, subject matter specialists issued a warning about the state of U.S. computer science education.
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Mind the Gap
Are there too few skilled computer and IT workers for the jobs available? If so, what can be done about it?
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Intel Probes the Private-Sector Side of Open Government Data
Intel recently decided to investigate how innovation takes place in and across business teams.
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niv. of Central Florida Wins National Cyber Defense Competition
The University of Central Florida won the 2014 Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past weekend in San Antonio.
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College Celebrates Half Century of Basic Language
Dartmouth University faculty, students, and national experts today will mark the 50th anniversary of the BASIC computing language developed at Dartmouth.
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How to Build a Gesture-Controlled Web Game with Leap Motion
Modern smartphones have helped shed a light on the power of user interfaces that are driven by gesture and touch. It’s increasingly clear that touch will play a...
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Study: People Pay More Attention to the pper Half of Field of Vision
People focus more on the upper half of their field of vision, according to a new study .
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Google Names Participants For 2014 Summer of Code Program
The 10th Annual Google Summer of Code program will involve 1,307 students working with 190 mentoring organizations to create open source code.
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High School Students Are All About Computers but Get Little Instruction in Computer Science
There is a significant gap between U.S. high school students' exposure to computer science and their use of computers and technology.
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Technology Confounds the Courts
Despite the need to make decisions relevant to technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court is not the most techno-savvy group.
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How Computers Are Changing Biology
Sophisticated computer models and simulations are replacing test tubes and beakers. This revolution in biology research is redefining medicine, agriculture, and...
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How America's Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future
Stories set in the future are often judged, as time passes, on whether they come true or not.
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Code Camp Empowers High School Girls With Computer Science Education
Stanford's Girls Teach Girls To Code program recently hosted more than 200 high school girls on campus for a "Code Camp."
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