Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Robotic Arm Probes Chemistry of 3-D Objects By Mass Spectrometry
Researchers have developed a system that enables scientists to better simulate and analyze the chemical reactions of early Earth on the surface of real rocks.
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Which College—and Which Major—will Make You Richest?
A Bachelor of Science from Harvey Mudd College, the small California science and engineering school, is the most valuable college degree in America.
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The Virtual Genius of Oculus Rift
To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who John Carmack is.
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Csus Students Get Federal Scholarships to Become Tech Warriors
California State University, Sacramento is offering $25,000 annual scholarships as part of the CyberCorps program.
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Impostoritis: A Lifelong, but Treatable, Condition
The female president of Harvey Mudd College on how women in STEM can cope with feeling like they don’t belong.
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The Digital nwrapping of the Egyptian Priest Neswaiu
In the 19th century and even later, there was no shortage of people eager to watch the unwrapping of an Egyptian mummy.
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Internet2 Teams Up With India's National Knowledge Network
Internet2 expects to formalize a partnership with its Indian counterpart this month.
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Nasa 'codeathon' Seeks Apps That Address Coastal Flooding
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's third global codeathon offers four climate-themed challenges.
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Using Patient Data For Personalized Cancer Treatments
Patient information databases eventually will help improve health outcomes and support development of new therapies.
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How to Win $1 Billion on Ncaa Basketball: A Mathematician's Tips
Last Thursday, the underground classroom at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York was filled to capacity for a college professor's PowerPoint-aided lecture...
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Alan Turing Institute to Be Set Up to Research Big Data
The U.K. government will provide 42 million UK pounds ($70 million US) to fund a research center that will carry the name of computer pioneer Alan Turing.
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A Degree Where Techie Meets Business Smarts
Science and technology graduates increasingly are pursuing a hybrid professional science master's degree to broaden their career opportunities.
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ACM Turing Award Goes to Pioneer Who Advanced Reliability and Consistency of Computing Systems
Microsoft's Lamport Contributed to Theory and Practice of Building Distributed Computing Systems that Work
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IBM Nurtures Mainframe Workforce With World Championship
IBM recently announced its first-ever "Master the Mainframe" world championship.
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.
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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.
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Researchers Exchange Mooc Results in Learning@scale Conference
Nearly 200 attendees from both computer science and learning science met to exchange research on MOOCs at the first annual ACM Learning@Scale Conference in Atlanta...
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Women of Color Nurture Minority Girls' Interest in STEM
Women represent a small fraction of those in science, technology, engineering, and math, and minority women even less, a National Science Foundation study finds...
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