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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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Remembering Mit, When There Were Just 50 Women in a Class of 1,000
When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000.
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University of Leicester Student Helps Develop Innovative Food Safety Management System
Researchers working with the European Safety Bureau have developed the Navitas online food safety management system.
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Computer Models Help nravel Mystery of Puebloans' Disappearance
Remember playing "The Oregon Trail" computer game in middle school?
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Hp Launching New Scholarship Program For Women in Information Security
Women interested in the theory and practice of cybersecurity can now turn to a new scholarship program launched by Hewlett-Packard to support their studies.
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Publishers Withdraw More Than 120 Gibberish Papers
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer...
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Self-Completing Programs
The Sketch programming language enables programmers to leave out some coding details, with Sketch filling in the blanks.
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Consortium Aims to Boost Minority Faculty in STEM Fields
The California Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate is trying to solve the problem of having too few minority Ph.D. students in STEM fields.
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Playing at Health
Developers try to tap the beneficial effects of video games.
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Reading Brains
The first steps have been taken toward enabling a computer to perceive one's thoughts.
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Self-Completing Programs
Since he was a graduate student, Armando Solar-Lezama, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been working...
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The Special Effects Firms Transforming the Film Industry
If you are looking for a sure thing at this year's Oscars look no further than Gravity to win the best visual effects category.
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Internationalizing STEM
There is growing interest in programs that allow students to double-major in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field and a foreign language...
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The Joy of Teaching Computer Science in the Age of Facebook
Stanford University professor Mehran Sahami says students today understand computing's potential and are technology consumers.
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How Hackathons Can Become More Female-Friendly
Anecdotal evidence suggests women sometimes feel they do not fit in at hackathons.
From ACM Opinion
Starman
It was a mild October day in Hollywood, but a trace of artificial snow remained on the ground as Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, at...
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Hackathons on the Rise
This year a record 1,500 hackathons are planned around the world, up from just a handful in 2010.
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Revamped Computer Science Classes Attracting More Girls
A growing number of universities are overhauling their computer science courses to attract more women, and the efforts appear to be working.
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The Last Places on Earth Without the Internet
It can be easy to forget what life was like before the Internet.
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