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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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Proposals Sought to Foster Best Practices for Supporting Postdocs
The Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium seeks proposals for ways to develop best practices in support of postdoctoral scholars.
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The Nsa Sponsors 'cyber Operations' Training at niversities. Here's What Students Learn.
Last week, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh became one of the latest—and most prestigious—schools to partner with the National Security Agency on a program...
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...
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Grassroots Groups Work to Inspire Women To Code
New organizations aim to introduce women to computing at the local level.
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The New Era of Toy Robotics
In olden times, the most an ambitious young tinkerer could hope for in a toy was to be able to stick one funny-shaped piece onto another. Kids built airplanes with...
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Terramechanics Research Aims to Keep Mars Rovers Rolling
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.
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The Smoke Alarm in Your Pocket and Other Winning Apps
One of the winners of Australia's Apps4Broadband competition is a Web-based app that enables tutors to teach students remotely.
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Teens Are Losing Interest in Science, Survey Finds
A new survey found the number of teenagers interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics dropped 15 percent this year.
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This Augmented-Reality Sandbox Turns Dirt Into a i
We've seen how kids take to touchscreens. To them, our unfathomably sophisticated smartphones and tablets are about as hard to figure out as a bucket full of blocks...
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Middle School Experiments With Humanoid Robot
Bullitt Lick Middle School in Shepherdsville, Ky., is offering a new robotics class that will teach students programming skills.
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Mystery of the Missing Women in Science
Although test scores prove that girls have science and math aptitude equal to that of boys, many girls choose not to pursue these fields.
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Gaming Improves Multitasking Skills
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.
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Neutron Stars in the Computer Cloud
Using the Einstein@Home project to analyze archival data from the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Australia, researchers have discovered 24 pulsars.
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Hack Attacks, Explained
Harvard University professor Jonathan L. Zittrain says recent cyberattacks on media outlets offer lessons on how institutions can guard against future incidents...
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Think You Can Drive a Bulldozer?
As he closed the door, leaving me alone at the controls of a 41,000-pound bulldozer with list price of nearly $432,000, a Komatsu Ltd. executive shouted, "No worries...
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How Scholars Hack the World of Academic Publishing Now
If you want to understand the modern academy, it wouldn't hurt to start at "impact factor."
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Why Video Games May Be Good For You
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.
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Can an AI Get Into the University of Tokyo?
Researchers are attempting to create an artificial intelligence (AI) program capable of passing school entrance exams.
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Computing Researchers Get 'schooled' on Science Policy at Lispi 2013
The Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium recently held its second Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) workshop.
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