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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Ursi Project Pushes Bounds of Artificial Intelligence
Professor Ken Livingston and his team at Vassar College's Undergraduate Research Summer Institute explored ways to optimize a robot's processing speed and allow...
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Students Create Virtual Realities in Campus Lab
The University of Maine's Virtual Environment and Multimodal Integration Lab has given undergraduate students the opportunity to explore their interests in human...
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Chinese Students Are Storming .s. Grad Schools: They Have the Money and the Brains
If you build it, they will come. No, I'm not talking about a baseball field amidst stalks of corn but the educational institutions dotting the U.S. landscape...
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In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As...
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Why They Chose STEM
Although most U.S. college students pursuing STEM degrees decided to do so in high school, just 20 percent said that their pre-college education prepared them "extremely...
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Nasa Gives Public New Internet Tool to Explore the Solar System
NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool.
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Robot Teaches English as Second Language
Pasadena City College professor Ron Chang Lee has developed interactive robots that help students learn English as a second language.
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Six Computer Labs that Gave Birth to the Digital World
Throughout history there is a recurring theme of like-minded individuals coming together to create a shared "hive mind" intelligence that is greater than its...
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Free Computer Science Courses, New Teaching Technology Reinvent Online Education
Stanford professors will offer popular computer science courses online for free in the autumn, and are launching an experiment that could radically change the delivery...
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Intel Recruits Sci-Fi Writers to Dream Up Future Tech
Chip maker Intel has commissioned leading science fiction authors to pen short stories that imagine future uses for the firm's technology.
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Nasa and Tor-Forge Books Partner in Themed Science Fiction Works
In an effort to introduce, inform, and inspire readers about NASA, the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, has partnered with Tor-Forge Books...
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Romance vs. STEM
State University of New York at Buffalo professor Lora Park recently completed a series of research projects, the results of which suggest that when college-age...
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Remaking American Medicine
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Invasion of the Mobile Apps
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course
A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...
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Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller
On Thursday, Aug. 4, the MIT Press held a party in MIT's Stata Center to celebrate the sale of the 500,000th copy of the textbook Introduction to Algorithms....
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10 Award-Winning Scientific Simulation Videos
Thanks to increasingly cheap, fast, efficient computing power, scientific simulations are now a crucial tool for researchers who want to ask once impractical...
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Nmsu Las Cruces Program Helps Women Break Into Computer Science
New Mexico State University's Young Women in Computing program is designed to cultivate interest in computer science among middle and high school girls and to...
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Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?
It happens every summer. In the weeks after the annual National College Entrance Examination, new high school graduates wait for the list. For years, who gets...
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