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Study: People Pay More Attention to the pper Half of Field of Vision
People focus more on the upper half of their field of vision, according to a new study .
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Google Names Participants For 2014 Summer of Code Program
The 10th Annual Google Summer of Code program will involve 1,307 students working with 190 mentoring organizations to create open source code.
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High School Students Are All About Computers but Get Little Instruction in Computer Science
There is a significant gap between U.S. high school students' exposure to computer science and their use of computers and technology.
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Technology Confounds the Courts
Despite the need to make decisions relevant to technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court is not the most techno-savvy group.
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How Computers Are Changing Biology
Sophisticated computer models and simulations are replacing test tubes and beakers. This revolution in biology research is redefining medicine, agriculture, and...
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How America's Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future
Stories set in the future are often judged, as time passes, on whether they come true or not.
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Code Camp Empowers High School Girls With Computer Science Education
Stanford's Girls Teach Girls To Code program recently hosted more than 200 high school girls on campus for a "Code Camp."
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Call of Cyber Duty: Military Academies Take on Nsa
The U.S. National Security Agency's annual Cyber Defense Exercise determines which of the five U.S. military service academies can best withstand cyberthreats.
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Stanford Medical Technology Exposes Hidden Maladies of Sculptor Auguste Rodin's Celebrated Hands
One has a ganglion cyst.
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Call of Cyber Duty: Military Academies Take on Nsa
If Douglas MacArthur or Ulysses S. Grant went to the U.S. Military Academy today, they might be testing their defensive skills hunched in front of a computer screen...
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How a Ping-Pong-Playing Robot Is Revolutionizing Robotics
An Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student is developing a new way for robots to learn by using a ping-pong-playing robotic arm.
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U.s. Cyber Challenge Opens Registration For Cyber Quests Competition
Students and professionals have until April 29 to register for the Cyber Quests online contest that could yield an invitation to a week-long Cyber Camp this summer...
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To Create a Pipeline of STEM Workers in Virginia, Program Starts With Littlest Learners
SySTEMic Solutions aims to get young Northern Virginia students to become passionate about STEM in order to boost the region's future economy.
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Steve Matteson: Fonts in the Time of Wearables
As gadgets get smaller, and mobile manufacturers find new ways to shrink their devices to fit on a user's wrist, people like Steve Matteson are focused on keeping...
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Bu Prof Earns $450k Grant to Improve Computer Chips
Binghamton University professor Timothy Miller focuses on teaching computer chips how to be smarter about themselves.
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Earth and Computer Sciences Collaboration a Success
University of Waikato students have developed software that optimizes the manufacture of terrain models created by a three-dimensional printer.
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Google Glass Hackathon Spawns Bizarre No-Touch Apps
At a recent Google Glass hackathon, which developers used a new language called Wearscript to create a wide range of new applications for the wearable technology...
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Princeton Compsci Prof Wins Prestigious Award
An expert in machine learning and Bayesian statistics at Princeton University is the recipient of the 2013 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computer Sciences.
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Early STEM Education Will Lead to More Women in It
Girls Who Code says schools must develop mandatory computer science programs for K-12 if the technology industry wants more women in its workforce.
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