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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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Pentagon Digs In on Cyberwar Front
The U.S. military is accelerating its cyberwarfare training programs in an aggressive expansion of its preparations for conflict on an emerging battlefield.
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A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley
Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.
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The nified Theory of Wu
Virginia Tech Associate Professor at Wu-chun Feng, commonly known as "Wu," talks about productivity and his latest work on supercomputers.
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Computing Advances Vital to Sustainability Efforts
Advances in computing, such as those that help to understand complex systems and their connections, are crucial to solving sustainability problems, according to...
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Period of Transition: Stanford Computer Science Rethinks Core Curriculum
Stanford University's computer science faculty embarked on an initiative to reinvent its core curriculum about five years ago.
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Building an Army of Ones and Zeros and the Troops Who Know How to Wield Them
Intrinsic to the U.S. Pentagon's development of cyberarsenals is the challenge of staffing the Cyber Command.
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Department of Energy Creates Online-Learning Platform for Technical Training
The U.S. Department of Energy has unveiled the National Training and Education Resource, an open source online learning platform to facilitate technical training...
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Confusion Can Be Beneficial For Learning: Study
Confusion when learning can be beneficial if it is properly induced, effectively regulated, and ultimately resolved, according to a University of Notre Dame study...
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For Minority College Students, STEM Degrees Pay Big
USC researchers recently completed a study showing that minority college students who major in STEM fields earn at least 25 percent more than students who study...
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In This Online University, Students Do the Teaching as Well as the Learning
Although free online courses have been enticing students with the opportunity to learn from world-class professors at prestigious colleges, Peer 2 Peer University...
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Study: Wikipedia Perpetuates Political Bias
Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Southern California say the collective intelligence used to create Wikipedia articles generally produces...
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How to Fix the Gender Gap in Technology
Women currently hold 27 percent of all computer science jobs, down from 30 percent 10 years ago, and they account for just 20 percent of undergraduate computer...
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Degrees of Separation
Researchers now have the capability to look at the small-world problem from both the traditional algorithmic approach and the new topological approach.
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HTML5 Leads a Web Revolution
Propelled by a proliferation of mobile devices and social networks, an enhanced family of Web specifications is bringing new power to developers and new capabilities...
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Patently Inadequate
The biggest change to U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years brings many changes, but fails to solve the software industry's most vexing problems.
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Lost and Found
Researchers discover computer pioneer Konrad Zuse's long-forgotten Z9, the world's first program-controlled binary relay calculator using floating-point arithmetic...
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Why You Should Care About Robocup
This month, soccer fans are glued to Euro 2012. But another prestigious championship is about to kick off, too. The game is slower—much slower—and the players fall...
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New Grad Looking For a Job? Pentagon Contractors Post Openings For Black-Hat Hackers
Mikko Hypponen enjoys his position as the chief research officer at the Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure. He has no intention of leaving. But lately, he's...
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.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes
The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and...
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