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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Teaching Programming to Preschoolers
Researchers are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by placing stickers on laminated sheets of paper.
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Just in Time: Tips For Computer Science Teachers When They Need It
Researchers are developing online professional development resources to provide "just-in-time" support for computer science teachers .
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Shortage of Security Pros Worsens
Cybersecurity job postings grew 74 percent from 2007 to 2013, more than twice the rate of all information technology jobs, according to a Burning Glass study.
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Mistrust and Meddling nsettles .s. Science Agency
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has had a tough couple of years.
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These Compsci Programs Deliver Most Bang For Buck, Report Finds
Computer science majors have the best 20-year net return on investment out of all of the degrees in the new College ROI Report. Stanford, UC-Berkeley, and MIT...
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Obama Seeks to Boost Training For High-Tech Jobs
President Barack Obama is embarking on a 20-city drive to intensify job-specific training in the high-tech sector. The administration aims to place 50,000 graduates...
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Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10.
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Engineering the Perfect Baby
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.
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Sc15 Chair on Hpc Transforms, Diversity Outreach, and Austin
In an interview, Jackie Kern, general chair of the SC15 conference, shares her agenda for the year and plans for the event.
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Facebook Invents an Intelligence Test For Machines
Artificial intelligence researchers want to develop more comprehensive exams to test their systems.
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Kids and Robots Learn to Write Together
Young children can use a new program to teach a humanoid robot how to write letters and improve their writing skills at the same time.
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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Oxford Celebrates 200th Birthday of Ada Lovelace
This year, the University of Oxford will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of computer visionary Ada Lovelace.
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...
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Google Wants to Rank Websites Based on Facts Not Links
The internet is stuffed with garbage.
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Pentagon Shops in Silicon Valley For Game Changers
A small group of high-ranking Pentagon officials made a quiet visit to Silicon Valley in December to solicit national security ideas from start-up firms with little...
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Changing the World One Hackathon at a Time
Sixty-six teens are taking part in the My Brother's Keeper Hackathon, a group coding competition spearheaded by Qeyno Labs CEO Kalimah Priforce.
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w Researches Ways to Draw Women Toward Science Majors
Female leaders at the University of Wisconsin are looking for ways to address the inequalities for women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields...
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Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans at Classic Arcade Games
A recent article recounts how a team of artificial intelligence researchers trained a computer to play, and in some cases beat, human players in several arcade...
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