Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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What 6.9 Million Clicks Tell S About How to Fix Online Education
Researchers at the MIT have analyzed data from Harvard University and MIT's shared online learning platform to gain a richer understanding of what makes massively...
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Finally, a Way to Teach Coding to the Touchscreen Generation
First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation.
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Why Many Programmers Don't Bother Joining the ACM
Earlier this month Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol and current Google vice president, openly asked professional programmers for feedback regarding...
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If You Want to Be Rich and Powerful, Majoring in STEM Is a Good Place to Start
Early education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics builds some of the key competencies necessary for success.
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Specialists Gather in Praise of Logic
The Vienna Summer of Logic combined a number of conferences into a scientific and cultural mega-event.
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The Need For Speed
Researchers are using high-performance computers to achieve new breakthroughs in science and engineering.
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Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body
Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
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Cloud Provides Chip Design Education to Developing Countries
Semiconductor Research Corp. and Silicon Cloud International are deploying EDA hardware and software in a private cloud with the goal of educating and training...
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No Guts, All Glory at Robot Soccer World Cup
Spectacular falls, miraculous goals, and footwork that would put the Premier League to shame—RoboCup 2014 has seen it all.
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Researchers Probe Security Through Obscurity
Obfuscation protects code by making it so impenetrable that access to it won't help a hacker understand how it works.
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Iran's Liberals and Conservatives Argue Over Internet Restrictions
When Iran's authorities started to block websites such as YouTube and Wikipedia in 2006, only a tenth of the population used the Internet.
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People in Leadership Positions May Sacrifice Privacy For Security
Researchers are examining how people with high-status job assignments assess security and privacy, and how impulsive or patient they are in making decisions.
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Virtual Finger Takes Scientists Through 3D Landscapes
Scientists will be able to use software called the Virtual Finger to navigate three-dimensional images of biological structures on computer screens.
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Some niversities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science
Just 18 percent of the computer science graduates from colleges and universities across the U.S. are women, down from 37 percent in 1985, but some schools are reporting...
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Electric Vehicles Drive Iot Research at Four Universities
Internet2 announced that it will provide four U.S. universities with an all-electric micro vehicle which will be used in a variety of research projects in Internet...
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Nsa Recruits College Students For Cyber-Operations Program
The U.S. National Security Agency has selected five more schools for its Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program.
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The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
The robots are coming, and they're getting smarter.
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Vancouver Coding Camp Seeks Young Women
Be Like Ada is a Vancouver, Canada-based coding boot camp for girls designed to inspire more women to pursue coding in engineering and computer science.
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