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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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Advances in Computer Mobility, Connectivity, and Networks
Researchers are developing programs and platforms that will ensure systems work despite power outages and other issues associated with mobility and connectivity...
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Researcher Loses Job at Nsf After Government Questions Her Role as 1980s Activist
Federal investigators say Valerie Barr lied during a background check, which led the U.S. National Science Foundation to cancel her temporary assignment.
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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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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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2013 Visualization Challenge
With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
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Innovative Technology Addresses Wireless Interference
Dina Katabi is leading a team working to create tools and programs to improve the speed, efficiency, and security of wireless data transmissions.
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Want to Be a Professor? Choose Math
Are you an aspiring scientist with quantitative chops and a strong desire for a faculty career?
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How Evolution May Help Build Better Robots
In the real world, animals have evolved the ability to get from point A to B by galloping, crawling, and jumping. Now, robots in the virtual world have accomplished...
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'we Are the World'
Two-thirds of all available jobs in all fields of science and engineering this decade will be in computer science.
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Report Highlights Latest Data on Women, Minorities and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering
Women, persons with disabilities, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanics appear underrepresented in science and engineering education and jobs.
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Nsf Joins in Commemorating Computer Science Education Week 2012
The U.S. National Science Foundation is joining the effort to promote Computer Science Education Week, which highlights the need to support computer science at...
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.k. Government Calls on Academia to Train Tomorrow's Cyber Security Experts
The U.K. government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has invited universities to apply for grants to run two new dedicated Centers for Doctoral...
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Computing Advances Vital to Sustainability Efforts
Advances in computing, such as those that help to understand complex systems and their connections, are crucial to solving sustainability problems, according to...
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Nsf Joins in Targeting Educators to Celebrate Computer Science Education Week 2011
The U.S. National Science Foundation recently began publishing CS Bits & Bytes, a one-page newsletter highlighting innovative computer science research, in recognition...
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National Convocation Highlights Best Practices for Improving STEM Education
Advances in science and engineering will be largely responsible for future economic growth and job creation, according to a new report issued by the U.S. National...
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Making Research Careers More Family-Friendly: White House and Nsf Announce New Policies
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the Career-Life Balance Initiative, which gives researchers more flexibility in the workplace and helps remove...
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Raspberry Pi: Rise of the $25 Computer
Raspberry Pi developers have created a computer designed to inspire a new generation of computer programmers but inexpensive enough to enable schools to give them...
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New Report Offers Roadmap For Success in K-12 STEM Education
A new U.S. National Research Council report, "Successful K-12 STEM Education," identifies the characteristics of successful K-12 schools and programs in science...
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2010 Visualization Challenge
An "ocean" composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video...
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