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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Age of Big Data
Good with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.
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Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools
Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq.
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Making Science Leap From the Page
When a college textbook, "Principles of Biology," comes out from the Nature Publishing Group in January, one place it won't be is on the shelves of school bookstores...
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Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children
Jaden Lender, 3, sings along softly with the "Five Little Monkeys" app on the family iPad, and waggles his index finger along with the monkey doctor at the warning...
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Two Top Suitors Are Emerging for New Graduate School of Engineering
With less than two weeks left to apply in the competition for $400 million in land and subsidies to build a science and engineering graduate school in New York...
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In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As...
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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course
A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...
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Colleges Join Plan For Faster Computer Networks
A coalition of 29 American universities is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks—with Internet service several hundred...
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Post-9/11 Security: A Rational Student Debate
The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is approaching, and you can count on the flow of remembrances and where-are-we-now updates swelling...
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Computer Studies Made Cool, on Film and Now on Campus
When Keila Fong arrived at Yale, she had never given much thought to computer science. But then last year everyone on campus started talking about the film "The...
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The First Computer Musician
In 1957 a 30-year-old engineer named Max Mathews got an I.B.M. 704 mainframe computer at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, to generate 17 seconds...
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Brain Calisthenics For Abstract Ideas
Like any other high school junior, Wynn Haimer has a few holes in his academic game. Graphs and equations, for instance: He gets the idea, fine—one is a linear...
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Calculating the Potential Return on Your Major
As the cost of college climbs ever higher each year, amid a national economic forecast that remains cloudy, questions about the value of a four-year degree are...
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Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science
Inside a darkened theater a viewer floats in a redwood forest displayed with Imax-like clarity on a cavernous overhead screen.
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.s. Lagging in sing Technology, Study Shows
The World Economic Forum's annual study on national computing and communications technology use found that the United States ranked fifth out of 138 countries for...
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More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality
Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London...
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Promoting Science, and Google, to Students
Google is synonymous with "search engine," and now, for students, it wants to be synonymous with "science."
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E-Textbooks Get a Lift From Publishers
Over the years, publishers have tried a variety of strategies to sell digital textbooks but with limited success. Two major publishers, Pearson and McGraw-Hill,...
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On 'jeopardy,' Watson's a Natural
In the end, the humans on "Jeopardy!" surrendered meekly.
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