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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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New Stanford Course Brings Silicon Valley to the Humanities Classroom
Stanford University's new Literature and Social Online Learning course brings computer science and humanities students together in one classroom.
From ACM Careers
A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.
From ACM TechNews
Predicting Superbugs' Countermoves to New Drugs
Researchers have developed software that can predict a constantly evolving infectious bacterium's countermoves to new drugs before the drug is tested on patients...
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Brain-Training For Baseball Robot
Researchers in Japan have developed a model of the part of the brain that is responsible for fine motor control.
From ACM TechNews
'the Imitation Game' Gives Girls a Computer Scientist Role Model
Actress Keira Knightley is providing young women with a role model that could help change the face of computer science and related fields.
From ACM TechNews
New Discovery Opens Door For Radical Reduction in Energy Consumed By Digital Devices
University of California, Berkeley researchers say they have made the first direct observation of a phenomenon known as "negative capacitance."
From Communications of the ACM
Google Boosts ACM's Turing Award Prize to $1 Million
The increase reflects the escalating impact of computing on daily life, through the innovations and technologies it enables.
From ACM TechNews
Big Data Analysis Reveals Gene Sharing in Mice
Scientists have identified at least three cases of cross-species mating in "old world" mice that likely had an impact on their evolutionary paths.
From ACM Careers
The Anti-Plagiarism Machine
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.
From ACM TechNews
.k. Government to Lead Review Into Computer Science Degrees
The U.K. government launched a £6 billion Science and Innovation strategy, including the funding of an independent review into computer science degree accreditation...
From ACM TechNews
Students' Raspberry Pi Computers to Run on International Space Station
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has partnered with the U.K. European Space Agency and U.K. space companies to offer an Astro Pi competition that will challenge students...
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Innovators of Intelligence Look to Past
Inside the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, known as AI2, everything is a gleaming architectural white.
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Material Question
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...
From ACM TechNews
Aiming For 1 Million 'girls Who Code'
Women are the majority in the workforce, in college, and as income earners, but they are being left out of innovating, says Reshma Saujani, who wants to introduce...
From ACM Opinion
Dumbing It Down in the Cockpit
Long gone are the leather jackets, goggles, and silk scarves flung over the shoulders of aviators who wrestled with flight controls, furiously scanned instruments...
From ACM Opinion
Boston Researcher Cynthia Breazeal Is Ready to Bring Robots Into the Home. Are You?
The MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group flanks the soaring atrium on the fourth floor of the Wiesner Building, a wall of metal panels along the southern edge...
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Print Thyself
In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month...
From ACM TechNews
How 'hour of Code' Sparked a Movement That Could Teach 100 Million People to Code
This week is Computer Science Education Week and Code.org hopes unprecedented numbers of students and ordinary people take part in its Hour of Code event.
From ACM Opinion
Baer's Odyssey: Meet the Serial Inventor Who Built the World's First Game Console
Even if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer.
From ACM TechNews