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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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In the Afghan War, a Little Robot Can Be a Soldier's Best Friend
The 310 SUGV is a distant cousin of the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner currently being promoted as a Father's Day gift. In Afghanistan, the Marines call him...
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H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B
For Silicon Valley, a day of ritual disappointment came on June 12: The U.S. announced that the slots for 2013 H-1B visas had all been filled.
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Online Classes See Cheating Go High-Tech
As online classes grow in popularity, the issue of online cheating also may grow in prominence unless courses are designed carefully.
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The Algorithm Didn't Like My Essay
As a professor and a parent, I have long dreamed of finding a software program that helps every student learn to write well.
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China Strives to Create Its Own Silicon Valley
Now at a critical juncture in its quest to become a superpower, China is turning to Western regions like the Silicon Valley for help with its next technical leap...
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Virtual Patient Under the Knife on Hi-Tech Operating Table
At St Mary's Hospital in London, surgeon Aimee Di Marco is about to cut up a body.
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Mind-Reading Robot Teachers Keep Students Focused
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a robotic teacher that monitors students' attention levels and mimics the techniques human teachers use...
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Coolest Jobs in Tech: Decoding Life, Touring Solar Systems
Managing hardware and storage needs; building custom, in-house applications; making information accessible via the Web—such tasks are the mainstays of IT work,...
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Silicon Valley Foreign Worker Search Speeds p After Lull
Technology firms have tripled their recruitment of foreign workers this spring after a hiring lull of several years—a development that is reigniting the debate...
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Data Mining Meets City Hall
Local and national governments are turning to open data to cut their costs, increase transparency and efficiency, and respond to the needs of citizens.
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Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
When scientists publish their research, they also make the underlying data available so the results can be verified by other scientists.
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Russian Whizzes Win Global Collegiate It Contest
The St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics has won this year's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, besting 111 other teams from...
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Intel Futurist on Why We Should Not Fear the Future
Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...
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niversity of Florida Endangers CS Department
Four weeks into the academic tussle between computer science students and the administration of the University of Florida, the controversy surrounding a drastic...
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Coolest Jobs in Tech: From the Pits of Le Mans to the Dugouts of Fenway Park
When race cars whiz around a track at 200 miles per hour, driving ability isn't the only factor that determines who wins the race.
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The Man Who Started the Hacker Wars
In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a...
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Struggle Continues to Plug Embedded Programming Gap
Critics say the growing embedded programming gap can be attributed to university curriculums for introductory computer science courses, which recently have focused...
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Tempering the Rise of the Machines
A report written by former Tufts University president Lawrence S. Bacow and former Princeton University president William G. Bowen analyzes the state of online...
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