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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Want to Be a Professor? Choose Math
Are you an aspiring scientist with quantitative chops and a strong desire for a faculty career?
From Communications of the ACM
Patient, Heal Thyself
New handheld medical diagnostic tools promise more efficient, lower-cost healthcare — but at what price?
From ACM TechNews
World's Cheapest Computer Gets Millions Tinkering
The Raspberry Pi was designed to help children learn to code; nearly 1.5 million of the Linux-based devices have sold in 18 months.
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Education Tech: What's Trending?
Educators and industry experts will gather July 25 at the Education Technology Innovation Summit to discuss new ideas and products in education technology.
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Are Schools Getting Enough Bang For Their Technology Buck?
Public schools in the United States have a lot to learn about integrating technology into education.
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Study Finds Clues on How to Keep Kids Engaged With Educational Games
A game-based curriculum currently under development teaches middle-school students about computer science principles.
From ACM Opinion
Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...
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Hugh Herr and the Liberating Age of Bionics
"It's extraordinary that we live in this day and age with all our wonderful modern technology, and still we have shoes that give us blisters," says Hugh Herr, with...
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Censoring the News Before It Happens
Every day in China, hundreds of messages are sent from government offices to website editors around the country that say things like, "Report on the new provincial...
From ACM TechNews
Cern's Hadron Collider Research Fueled By Openstack
CERN is rebuilding its Large Hadron Collider and re-architecting its data center infrastructure based on OpenStack Grizzly.
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Five-Year-Olds to Learn Programming and Algorithms in Major Computing Curriculum Shake-p
The U.K. Department for Education has added programming and algorithm teaching for children as young as five years old to that nation's computing curriculum.
From ACM Careers
In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
Q. How is Big Data being used more in the leadership and management field?
From ACM Careers
This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
There was a time when Melody Meckfessel juggled two wardrobes: one for one Google, and one for the rest of her life.
From ACM Careers
The Only Thing Programmers Have to Fear Is... All of These Things
Software developer is generally considered a pretty good job, and with good reason.
From ACM TechNews
Colleges Work to Retain Women in STEM Majors
Higher education institutions are working to encourage women to pursue majors in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Indiana niversity Launches Data Capacitor Ii
Indiana University's new five-petabyte Data Capacitor "will accommodate our storage requirements for a while."
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A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg
The technological limits of surveillance during the American Civil War dictated that commanders often decided where to deploy their troops based largely on what...
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The Quest For Seamless, High-Quality Virtual Reality
New virtual-reality peripherals are garnering attention as they enable users to feel truly present in a VR environment by addressing the challenge of movement.
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Coding Camps For Kids Rise in Popularity
Coding camps for children are becoming increasingly popular amid an expanding initiative to inspire more youths to seek computer science degrees.
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