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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Tracking the Flow of Knowledge
Do scientists' job locations have any impact on the way their work spreads? Or, in today’s highly networked world, does research flow around the globe without...
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Calculating the Potential Return on Your Major
As the cost of college climbs ever higher each year, amid a national economic forecast that remains cloudy, questions about the value of a four-year degree are...
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Red Hot: The Computer Science Job Market
Across the United States, new computer science graduates from strong programs are receiving extraordinary job offers, with starting salaries as high as $105,000...
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Why Would-Be Engineers End Up As English Majors
Amenah Ibrahim vividly remembers her first introduction to thermodynamics.
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Awards Encourages Women to Break Tech Glass Ceiling
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology recently held its annual Women In Vision Awards honoring women who are challenging the male-dominated technology...
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Bin Laden Compound Now a Virtual Training Ground for Commandos
To passers-by, T.J., a fit 20-something, is running around a red felt carpet about half the size of a basketball court inside a convention center. In his mind...
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Pressure Mounts on Western Washington University to Preserve Computer Science Department
The Washington Technology Industry Association and the Technology Alliance—two of the largest technology member organizations in the state—have joined the fight...
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Parting with Privacy with a Quick Click
When Scott Fitzsimones turned 13, he got an iPhone, set up accounts for Facebook and Pandora and went on an apps downloading spree. At the same time, the new...
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Researchers Use Xbox Technology to Improve Programs
University of Texas at Arlington researchers are using Microsofte's Xbox Kinect technology to improve virtual sign language software.
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Engineering Universal Access For Learning
Bowie State University is promoting a universal design for learning to overcome the technological, social, and psychological barriers to equal education.
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Learning: No Longer a Textbook Case
Wake Forest University researchers are using emerging technologies to develop a new teaching method that better engages students who have learning disabilities...
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The Ph.d. Problem: Are We Giving Out Too Many Degrees?
In developed nations, the number of Ph.D.s given in the sciences each year has grown by almost 40% since 1998, reaching about 34,000 doctorates in 2008. This...
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Learning Science Through Gaming
An MIT-produced interactive game, "Vanished," now being played by thousands online, offers a novel experiment in alternative science education.
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Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science
Inside a darkened theater a viewer floats in a redwood forest displayed with Imax-like clarity on a cavernous overhead screen.
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Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.
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Deus Ex Machina
Computational metaphysics is helping philosophers answer age-old questions, such as whether God exists.
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Data Optimization in Developing Nations
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters...
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Computational Thinking 'vital For Child's Analytical Ability'
Computational thinking ought to be embedded within educational programs in order to cultivate children's analytical ability, says CMU professor Jeannette M. Wing...
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Creative, On-Line Learning Tool Helps Students Tackle Real-World Problems
Iowa State University researchers have developed ThinkSpace, a computer interface that helps students use what they have learned in horticulture classrooms and...
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