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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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Beyond Gaming, the Vr Boom Is Everywhere—from Classrooms to Therapy Couches
When Oculus almost single-handedly revived the idea of virtual reality from its '90s vaporware grave, it chose the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo as the place...
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Demystifying the Mooc
When massive open online courses first grabbed the spotlight in 2011, many saw in them promise of a revolutionary force that would disrupt traditional higher education...
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Maria Klawe: Esteemed Computer Scientist. Proud Mathematician. Watercolor Painter.
One of the chief goals of Maria Klawe as president of Harvey Mudd College has been to encourage women to enter computer science.
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This Guy's Quest to Track Every Shot in the Nba Changed Basketball Forever
As a kid, Kirk Goldsberry was a rabid basketball fan. But this was the 1980s, and living near Penn State meant his house wasn't quite close enough to Philadelphia...
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Indiana niversity Investing $7 Million For New Complexity Institute
Indiana University recently announced the establishment of the Indiana University Network Science Institute, a $7-million initiative to examine complex networks...
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Awards Data Science Grant to Carnegie Mellon Researcher
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has named Carnegie Mellon University professor Carl Kingsford a Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery.
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Is the City of the Future Finally Here?
A presentation during the Argonne OutLoud series considered how computer technologies can help mitigate challenges associated with increased urbanization.
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Keeping Online Reviews Honest
As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.
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What Happened to All the Women in Computer Science?
Ada Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer, but today computer science is overwhelmingly a male domain.
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.k. Child Coders Triumph in European Contest
Microsoft recently brought together young programmers from across Europe for a gaming competition based on Kodu, the company's visual programming language.
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How the World Came to Be Run By Computer Code
From the scythe to the steam engine, we've always used technology to control the world around us.
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This Incredible Oculus Sim Lets Soccer Players Relive Games
For many athletes, watching game film is a necessary chore.
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Making the world’s problem solvers 10% more efficient
Ten years after a Google engineer empowered researchers with Scholar, he can’t bear to leave it.
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More Training, Skills Development Needed For Analyzing Big Data, Experts Say
Big data training is a major challenge, according to a recently published study from the National Academies Press. The report notes the need for better educating...
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In Conversation Marc Andreessen
It's not hard to coax an opinion out of Marc Andreessen.
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To Siri, With Love
Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri.
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Hacking Their Way to Gender Equality
About 60 high school and college-age women participated in the 2014 International Women's Hackathon on the campus of California State University San Marcos.
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Nobel Prize: How English Beat German as Language of Science
Permafrost, oxygen, hydrogen; it all looks like science to me.
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