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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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What's Next For Digital Humanities?
New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.
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Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs
Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box.
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A Mathematical Proof Takes 200 Terabytes To State
The latest example of proof by computer enters a new realm: a proof 200 terabytes in size.
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Cybersecurity Sleuths Learn to Think Like Hackers
About 35 high-school students sit at neatly arranged rows of tables in the university's gym. Another 115 college-level contestants surround the high schoolers.
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Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence
In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...
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The Internet's Favorite Website
It's usually idle curiosity that drives me to Wikipedia.
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The Lack of Women in Tech Is More Than a Pipeline Problem
The dearth of women in technology runs much deeper than a simple pipeline problem, writes venture capitalist Swati Mylavarapu.
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Computer Science Teachers Need Cybersecurity Education, Says CSTA Industry Group
ACM's Computer Science Teachers Association is crafting a cybersecurity certification program for computer science teachers.
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Ais Are Starting to Learn Like Human Babies By Grasping and Poking Objects
A project at Carnegie Mellon University could enable artificial intelligences to learn in a more human way.
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Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot
Researchers at schools such as the Georgia Institute of Technology are testing artificial intelligence to relieve the burden of teaching assistants.
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Computer Gleans Chemical Insight from Lab Notebook Failures
Did your experiment fail? Don't bin the data just yet—they could be useful.
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New Tech Uses Hardware, Software to Train Dogs More Efficiently
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a customized suite of technologies that enables a computer to autonomously train a dog.
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Women in Tech Band Together to Track Diversity, After Hours
Eight prominent women activists from Silicon Valley have unveiled the Project employee diversity campaign.
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...
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Asc16 Student Supercomputer Challenge Results Are In
The top prize in the Asia Supercomputer Community's 2016 Student Supercomputer Challenge went to the Huazhong University of Science and Technology team.
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Q&a: Python Creator Guido Van Rossum on How He Got His Start in Programming
Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the world’s most popular programming languages.
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Does Learning Improve When Every Student Gets a Laptop?
Researchers have found "one-to-one" laptop programs that take a comprehensive approach were linked to higher test scores in English, math, science, and writing. ...
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AI Talent Grab Sparks Excitement and Concern
When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...
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Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?
Three studies have found tablet use effective in improving performance on standardized tests of reading preparedness by children in economically disadvantaged countries...
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