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Vector Institute Is Just the Latest in Canada's AI Expansion
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Vector Institute Is Just the Latest in Canada's AI Expansion

Canadian researchers have been behind some recent major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Now, the country is betting on becoming a big player in one of...

Stanford Researchers Adapt a Diy Robotics Kit to Give STEM Students Tools to Automate Biology Experiments
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Stanford Researchers Adapt a Diy Robotics Kit to Give STEM Students Tools to Automate Biology Experiments

Researchers have modified a commercially available do-it-yourself kit for building and programming robots capable of transferring exact amounts of fluids between...

I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into
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I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into

Chia-Chiunn Ho was eating lunch inside Facebook headquarters, at the Full Circle Cafe, when he saw the notice on his phone: Larry Zitnick, one of the leading figures...

Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race For American Jobs
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Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race For American Jobs

Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans?

Berkeley Lab Researchers Target Chem Code For Knights Landing
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Target Chem Code For Knights Landing

Researchers are helping computational chemists prepare to compute efficiently on next-generation exascale machines.

Google's AI Explosion in One Chart
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Google's AI Explosion in One Chart

Nature. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Silicon Valley's Quest to Live Forever
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Silicon Valley's Quest to Live Forever

On a velvety March evening in Mandeville Canyon, high above the rest of Los Angeles, Norman Lear's living room was jammed with powerful people eager to learn the...

What It Means to {codelikeagirl}
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What It Means to {codelikeagirl}

The University of Rochester has significantly increased the number of female students graduating with computer science degrees.

Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse
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Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse

It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with ...

'girls in Stem' Culture Is Failing Both Girls and STEM
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'girls in Stem' Culture Is Failing Both Girls and STEM

Cleoniki Kesidis writes that a culture that tries to encourage girls to enter science, technology, engineering, and math fields guilt-tripped her into pursuing...

Sensors on the Brain
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Sensors on the Brain

Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.

Digitizing the World
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Digitizing the World

Digital maps trawl for real-time updates.

Computing the Arts
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Computing the Arts

Artists can use software to create art, and some software creates art all on its own.

A Professor Built an AI Teaching Assistant For His Courses--and It Could Shape the Future of Education
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A Professor Built an AI Teaching Assistant For His Courses--and It Could Shape the Future of Education

Georgia Institute of Technology professor Ashok Goel has created an artificially intelligent teaching assistant.

How Aristotle Created the Computer
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How Aristotle Created the Computer

Modern computers would not exist without the influence of Aristotelean principles.

Sorry, a Robot Is Not About to Replace Your Lawyer
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Sorry, a Robot Is Not About to Replace Your Lawyer

Impressive advances in artificial intelligence technology tailored for legal work have led some lawyers to worry that their profession may be Silicon Valley's next...

Quantum Computer Learns to 'see' Trees
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Quantum Computer Learns to 'see' Trees

St. Mary's College researchers trained a quantum computer to recognize trees, a breakthrough they say could help scientists use other quantum systems for complicated...

Girls Now Outnumber Boys in High School Stem, but Still Lag in College and Career
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Girls Now Outnumber Boys in High School Stem, but Still Lag in College and Career

Although girls currently comprise about 50% of the enrollment in U.S. high school science and math classes, they still lag their male counterparts in college and...

Codella Aims to Teach Latina Girls Another Vital Language: Coding
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Codella Aims to Teach Latina Girls Another Vital Language: Coding

The Miami, FL-based CODeLLA project was launched in 2013 to encourage Latina girls ages 8-12 to explore careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

New Studies Illustrate How Gamers Get Good
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New Studies Illustrate How Gamers Get Good

A new study followed players of the computer games "Halo: Reach" and "StarCraft 2" to learn how they acquired and maintained their skill level.
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