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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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Child-Proofing the Internet of Things
Researchers are studying how children can maintain their safety and privacy as they use the Internet of Things.
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Parallel Computational Thinking
Applications must be programmed to process instructions in parallel to take full advantage of the new multicore processors.
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Cultivating STEM Success
Harvard University's Pooja Chandrashekar founded the ProjectCSGIRLS coding competition, now the largest such competition for middle-school girls in the U.S.
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Virginia Becomes First State to Require Computer Science Instruction
Virginia has completed a series of computer science standards designed to configure the curriculum and what instructors are expected to teach at each grade level...
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This Inquisitive AI Will Kick Your Butt at Battleship
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can skillfully play a Battleship-like game by determining how to ask questions as efficiently as possible...
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As Silicon Valley Gets 'crazy,' Midwest Beckons Tech Investors
They seem an odd couple. J. D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy," his best-selling memoir of growing up in the postindustrial Midwest and his journey of escape...
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The Field of AI Research Is About to Get Way Bigger Than Code
The new AI Now Institute is a cross-disciplinary initiative that will research the impact of artificial intelligence on society.
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Supercomputing Speeds Up Deep Learning Training
A team led by Texas Advanced Computing Center researchers has published the results of an effort to use supercomputers to train a deep neural network for rapid...
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Robots Can Help S Better nderstand How Infants Learn
Johan Kwisthout of Radboud University in the Netherlands' discusses efforts to use robots to replicate the brains infants in order to better understand their learning...
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Only If It Serves the State: North Korea's Online Experience
Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
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Slac Knows How the niverse Works. Now It's Targeting Your Needs
You could be forgiven for thinking the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's glory days are long over.
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Nas Report Investigates the Growth of Computer Science ndergraduate Enrollments
The National Academy of Sciences recently released a report titled "Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments."
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China's Technology Ambitions Could pset the Global Trade Order
When President Trump arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, he will most likely complain about traditional areas of dispute like steel and cars.
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Broadening the CS Cohort
Innovative programs are drawing women and minority students to computer science, and giving them the support they need to succeed.
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The Disappearing American Grad Student
There are two very different pictures of the students roaming the hallways and labs at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering.
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Can AI Help to Detect and Cure Cancer?
University of Southern California Viterbi professor Fei Sha plans to focus her efforts on applying the findings of statistical machine learning to medical science...
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md Hosted Women Around the Country For Its Annual All-Female Hackathon
The University of Maryland recently hosted its third all-women hackathon.
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Bringing History to Life
Sankofa is a new immersive computer game that aims to bring the cultural history of Ghana to life via gameplay while providing a unique learning experience.
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