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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Labs that Protect Against Online Warfare
Several months after the WannaCry cyber-attack, much of the world still seems to be asleep to the potential catastrophic effects of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure...
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It's Time to Weave Computational Thinking Into K-12
A new study stresses the need for computational thinking to be integrated across K-12 school curriculums.
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A 'stem' Parent Boosts Girls' Participation in Science Degrees
Researchers at the universities of Michigan and Arkansas recently conducted a study showing that having one parent or guardian work in a STEM field makes it more...
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The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming for his job...
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Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights
A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.
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The New Jobs
As automation takes on more and more tasks, what will human workers do?
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73 Percent of Developers Who Don't se AI Plan to Learn How in 2018
Although only 17 percent of software developers worked with artificial intelligence or machine learning this year, 73 percent of those who did not say they are...
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AI Tutoring: Genius on My Shoulder
Students are being given access to an incredibly smart digital friend with unlimited patience, programmed to sense the best way to impart knowledge.
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Is Peer Review Fair When It Is Not Blinded?
Researchers found that when reviewers know who did the work on a paper and where, it shaped their judgment.
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Estonia, the Digital Republic
Up the Estonian coast, a five-lane highway bends with the path of the sea, then breaks inland, leaving cars to follow a thin road toward the houses at the water's...
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Computerized Biology, or How to Control a Population of Cells With a Computer
Two studies from European researchers detail their use of hybrid experimental platforms to enable the production of new and reprogrammable behaviors of cell populations...
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Virtual Reality sers Must Learn to se What They See
A new study has found virtual reality users need training to effectively perceive and use virtual imagery.
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Robot Learning Improves Student Engagement
Online students who use innovative robots feel more engaged and connected to the instructor and students in the classroom.
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Google Missed Out on China. Can It Flourish in India?
Every month, about four million more Indians get online. They include people like Manju, a 35-year-old seamstress in this city of ancient palaces, who got her first...
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Demand For AI Talent Turns Once-Staid Conference Into Draft Day
Actors in robot costumes stood in the lobby of the Westin hotel in Long Beach, California on Sunday night, "Intel Inside" stickers displayed on their foam torsos...
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Taking a Second Look at the Learn-to-Code Craze
Over the past five years, the idea that computer programming–or "coding"–is the key to the future for both children and adults alike has become received wisdom...
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Schools Dive In to Computer Science Education Week
This year's Computer Science Education Week, which started Monday, continues an ongoing effort to encourage K-12 students to engage with coding and computer science...
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Future Wars May Depend as Much on Algorithms as on Ammunition, Report Says.
The Pentagon is increasingly focused on the notion that the might of U.S. forces will be measured as much by the advancement of their algorithms as by the ammunition...
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