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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White House Office Studies Benefits of Video Games
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has assigned senior policy analyst Constance Steinkuehler to study video games for 18 months to determine...
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No More R
Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst.
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Sebastian Thrun Resigns from Stanford to Launch dacity
Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity—an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search...
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Nyc Opens First High School For Software Engineering
New York City will create its first public high school dedicated to training students in software development.
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ACM Fellows Inducted
Forty-six men and women are recognized as 2011 ACM Fellows.
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The War Against Botnets
Increasingly sophisticated botnets have emerged during the last several years. However, security researchers, businesses, and governments are attacking botnets...
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The Science of Better Science
Researchers are exploring networked computational analysis, formal classification, and topic modeling to better identify relevant scientists, ideas, and trends.
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Engage: Apple's New Tools For Interactive Books on Ipad
Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It's one of the few psychological terms in education that...
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U.s. Losing High-Tech Jobs, R&d Dominance to Asia
U.S. companies are locating more of their research and development operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science...
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Apple Makes Push Into Ipad Textbooks
Apple Inc. on Thursday introduced tools designed to spur the development of textbooks and other classroom materials for devices like the iPad, in the company's...
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.s. Loses High-Tech Jobs as R&d Shifts Toward Asia
The U.S. is losing high-tech jobs as American companies expand their research and development (R&D) labs in Asia, according to the U.S. National Science Board....
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Class of 2011 Scores Higher-Paying Jobs
Engineering students secured the highest-paying jobs among 2011 graduates, according to a new survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
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Nyc to Open Its First Software Engineering High School
New York City is taking another step toward becoming Silicon Alley—the East Coast’s own tech hub—with the grand opening of the city's first software engineering...
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Making It in America
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction.
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What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell S About the Future of Education
Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the past few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup Codecademy)...
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How Research Goes Viral
Scores of interesting new findings from the biosciences may speed around the globe at the click of a mouse, but one thing particularly encourages other researchers...
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It Security Pros Go Full Year With No Joblessness
The Information Security Media Group reports that an analysis of new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that there was no joblessness for information...
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.S. Report Sees Perils to America's Tech Future
A Department of Commerce report warns that certain aspects of the U.S. economy are losing their competitive edge. "Our ability to innovate as a nation will determine...
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Wanted: Supercomputer Programmers
The U.S.'s supercomputing labs are having difficulty finding software developers who can program state-of-the-art machines, according to a recent Daily Beast article...
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