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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Courses Charge Up Future Electric-Vehicle Engineers
When Professor Mehdi Ferdowsi and Ph.D. student Andrew Meintz offered the inaugural class on electric and hybrid vehicles at Missouri University of Science and...
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Senator Schumer: H-1b se ndercuts Pay, Discourages Tech Enrollments
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says the H-1B visa program has created "multinational temp agencies" that undercut U.S. wages and discourage students from entering...
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Simplifying Computer Power Behind Phones, Medical Devices
University of Houston researchers are collaborating with chipmaker Texas Instruments to simplify the development of programmable multicore processors.
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New Paradigm For Scientific Publication and Peer Review
Scientific knowledge has been shared in the same way for centuries. A European research project advocates replacing papers and peer reviews with a new process inspired...
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Wanted: Cybersecurity Pros
Demand for a cybersecurity workforce is heavy, as U.S. federal agencies, contractors, and technology companies vie for a limited pool of qualified employees.
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In a Video Game, Tackling the Complexities of Protein Folding
In a match that pitted video game players against the best known computer program designed for the task, the gamers outperformed the software in figuring out...
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Are Female It Graduates Still nderrepresented?
The U.K.'s Higher Education Statistics Agency reports that the number of women studying computer science has fallen over the past five years, from 24 percent to...
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Customizing Science Instruction With Digital Libraries
Middle and high school teachers participating in the Curriculum Customization Service program use animations, images and interactive media to help engage Denver...
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Personal Robots: Newest Cs1 Teaching Tool
The Institute for Personal Robots in Education has developed a curriculum, software, and plug-in board for an off-the-shelf personal robot that it hopes will...
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Celebrating the Legacy of Plato
The PLATO@50 Conference marked the semicentennial of the computer system that was the forerunner of today's social media and interactive education.
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Making Sense of Real-Time Behavior
Data captured by sensors worn on the human body and analyzed in near real-time could transform our understanding of human behavior, health, and society.
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Building Skills That Count
The Texas Advanced Computing Center has created a supercomputing curriculum designed to teach advanced computing skills to undergraduate and graduate students at...
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DARPA
Darpa’s leading advocate for crowdsourcing and other ways of tapping new talent is leaving to join Microsoft—after only a year at the Defense Department’s top R&D...
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CMU Launches Initiative Using Robots to Boost Science, Technology Majors
Carnegie Mellon University has launched Fostering Innovation through Robotics Exploration (FIRE), a new initiative that will leverage students' interest in robots...
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ECS Releases All Public Data in Open Linked Data Format
The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) recently became the United Kingdom's first university department to release all...
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U.S. DOE Awards $2.04 Million to Rensselaer Nuclear Engineering Program
More than $2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy will strengthen nuclear research and education, and help develop the next generation of nuclear...
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Microsoft and Nasa Bring Mars Down to Earth Through the Worldwide Telescope
Today, Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and...
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The Speech That Inspired the Studsat Satellite Project
Studsat, a tiny satellite that was built by 35 students belonging to four engineering colleges in Bangalore and three in Hyderabad, was put in orbit on Monday...
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Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality
Middleshcool students are champion time-wasters. And the personal computer may be the ultimate time-wasting appliance. Put the two together at home, without hovering...
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