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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How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research
One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...
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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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Nmsu Professor Shows There's More to Computer Science Than Gaming Careers
New Mexico State University researchers recently used real and computer-generated data to develop a software system to study biological systems.
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Hundreds of Teens Attend Computer Science Education Day at Cal
The University of California, Berkeley held its annual Computer Science Education Day on Dec. 10, drawing hundreds of students from across the Bay Area.
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President Obama Talks About Teaching Everyone to Code. This Professor Does It.
On Monday, President Obama kicked off computer science education week, encouraging every young person to acquire computer programming skills, even if they have...
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For Steve Ballmer, a Lasting Touch on Microsoft
On the eve of his exit as chief executive officer of Microsoft, after more than a decade on the job, Steve Ballmer is more than ever a CEO whose image does not...
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Database Tracks Toxic Side Effects of Pharmaceuticals
Updates to an extensive toxicology database should make it easier to track information about the unintentional toxic effects of therapeutic drugs.
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Coding Kids
As the importance of programming as a life skill grows, parents are beginning to seek coding education for their children.
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Students Can Create Animations of Garfield the Cat With New Version of Carnegie Mellon's Alice Software
A new version has been released of the Alice Project, free educational programming software that enables beginners to create animations.
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Old School vs. New School As Academic Publishers Brawl Over Web
The competition for prominence in academic publishing heated up this week as a traditional company, Elsevier, tangled with a Digital Era rival, Academia.edu.
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Mit, Notre Dame, t San Antonio Help Build Hybrid Cloud Environment For Education
Internet2 is working to bring a hybrid cloud environment to its community of research and educational institutions.
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Study: Black Women Falling Behind in STEM Fields
Women of color, especially black women, are significantly underrepresented in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics positions
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Robotutor Marks the Homework of a Class of Thousands
Codewebs, an artificially intelligent tutor for online students that can analyze and assess submitted code, can give students fast, tailored feedback and guidance...
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Mission Possible: Simulation-Based Training and Experimentation on Display
The Fleet Integrated Synthetic Training/Testing Facility software and gaming technology offers an affordable, adaptive way to train sailors for combat scenarios...
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Something About STEM Drives Women Out
Women who have worked in STEM fields are more likely to leave their field for other careers than other professional women.
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Why the .s. May Lose the Race to Exascale
In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers—exascale—there is no guarantee the U.S. will finish first.
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Life Points the Way to a New Template For Chipmaking
While significant obstacles remain, researchers are optimistic about using DNA to guide graphene into complex circuit shapes on silicon.
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CS Enrollments Rise . . . at the Expense of the Humanities?
A growing proportion of U.S. college students are earning degrees in computer and information sciences, surprising some in academia.
From ACM Opinion