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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Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up.
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High Schools Not Meeting STEM Demand
There are more than 42,000 public and private high schools in the United States, but just 2,100 of them offered the Advanced Placement test in computer science...
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Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free
Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing...
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Most European Languages in Danger of Digital Extinction
META-NET recently completed a study that assessed language technology support for 30 European languages in four different areas, including automatic translation...
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Fostering Tech Talent in Schools
Microsoft recently launched the Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (Teals) program, an effort aimed at getting high school students interested in computer...
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Computers Match Humans in Understanding Art
Lawrence Technological University researchers have developed an algorithm that demonstrates computers can be made to understand art in a way very similar to how...
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On Waterfront, Rise of the Machines
In the rising light of a mid-September morning, the CSAV Pyrenees, a blue-water freighter sailing out of Suape Port in Brazil, was lashed to its lines at BerthPort...
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12 Technologies to Watch in STEM Education
The New Media Consortium has released a technology outlook to watch for in science, technology, engineering, and math education over the next five years.
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Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...
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Big Data Brings Big Academic Opportunities
Many colleges and universities are developing advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data.
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Digging For Drug Facts
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.
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Redesigning the Data Center
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
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Computer Science and the Three Rs
A growing sense of crisis prevails as computer science searches for its place in the K--12 curriculum.
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The Machines Are Taking Over
Giving computer programs the ability to educate students like a personal tutor is the goal of Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Neil Heffernan, whose efforts...
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Alan Turing at 100
Harvard University is celebrating Alan Turing's 100th birthday with a new exhibit titled, "Go Ask A.L.I.C.E., Turing Tests, Parlor Games, and ChatterBots," which...
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Europeana's Huge Cultural Dataset Opens For Reuse
The digital portal Europeana has made its dataset of more than 20 million cultural objects available to be used freely by developers, designers, and other digital...
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Online Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences
Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe recently launched the WitsOn project, which organizes hundreds of prominent women working in STEM industries to become...
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Open Source Education Software Unveiled By Google
Google has released Course Builder, open source software for creating online education courses.
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Collaborative STEM Programs at Rutgers-Camden Produce New Opportunities and Friendships
STEM students at Rutgers University-Camden have access to scholarship and academic support thanks to a $600,000 U.S. NSF grant that aims to support high-achieving...
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