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College Degrees, Designed By the Numbers
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College Degrees, Designed By the Numbers

Colleges are starting to tap opportunities inherent in big data, using insights mined from information about students' performance to tailor courses and degrees...

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The Public, Playing a Molecule-Building Game, Outperforms Scientists

A Web-based game that uses the brainpower of biology novices to understand molecules key to life and disease is producing working designs of those molecules in...

Gaming the Archives
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Gaming the Archives

Dartmouth College researchers have developed Metadata Games, an experiment that uses crowdsourcing to create archival metadata. 

'augmented Reality' on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth
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'augmented Reality' on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth

University of Wisconsin at Madison researchers are developing an open source tool that lets designers link text, images, video, and audio into a physical location...

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Supercomputers Often Run Outdated Software

Supercomputing experts discussed the issue of supercomputing software during a recent conference in Washington, D.C., celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Coalition...
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