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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After Rutgers Spycam Case, niversities Grapple With Privacy Online
The conviction of Dharun Ravi in the Rutgers webcam spying trial last week raises difficult questions for universities when it comes to protecting students online...
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Preserving Digital Data
Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement...
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Open For Business
Should academic articles be available for free on the Web?
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Tech Industry Climbs Out of Silicon Valley, Moves Abroad
Washington, D.C., has replaced Silicon Valley as the locus for technology jobs as non-tech industries continue to add tech professionals, according to Dice.com....
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DARPA Director Bolts Pentagon For Google
Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google.
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Hail to the Geeks
Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...
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When Gaming Is Good For You
A growing body of university research suggests that gaming improves creativity, decision-making and perception.
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Better Living Through Video Gaming
From AI-designed games to realistic virtual worlds and social physics, gaming is changing our world view.
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Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World
Stanford University is introducing five free online classes in March as the next step in a university initiative to use new technologies to improve education....
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Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says
Cloud computing technologies will help create nearly 14 million technology-related jobs worldwide by 2015, resulting in $1.1 trillion in revenue annually, according...
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What Geography Can Teach S About Basketball
The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...
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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers
As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...
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New Computers Respond to Students' Emotions, Boredom
University of Notre Dame researchers have developed AutoTutor and Affective AutoTutor, intelligent tutoring programs that model and respond to students' cognitive...
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Educators, Innovators Call For Earlier Introduction to Computer Science
Many educators believe schools need to introduce computer science to students as early as kindergarten, while private companies are developing programs to mentor...
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Colleges Are rged to Cooperate to Bring More Women and Minorities Into Science
EducationCounsel and the American Association for the Advancement of Science recently offered a plan for producing more science and engineering graduates by bringing...
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Stem, Gender Parity, and Faculty Retention
Universities retain and promote men and women at similar rates in STEM departments, except for mathematics, according to a new study. However, the odds that any...
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Policing the Future
Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.
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Stanford Schooling - Gratis!
Stanford University's experiment with online classes could help transform computer science education.
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Computer Science Awards
Scientists worldwide are honored for their contributions to design, computing, science, and technology.
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