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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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Professors se Twitter in Foreign Language Teaching
Two professors at the University of South Carolina are using Twitter as a tool in teaching foreign languages.
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In Class, Texting Is the New Doodling
Top classroom distraction surpasses doodling, daydreaming and note-passing.
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A Matter of Privacy
Do consumers have enough control over their personal information or is more government regulation needed?
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The New Face of War
With the introduction of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, the stakes of cyberwarfare have increased immeasurably.
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CSEdWeek Expands Its Reach
The second Computer Science Education Week is showing students, parents, and educators why computer science is important.
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The Eyes Have It
Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.
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Effort Seeks to Diversify Cyber-Security Field
In an effort to increase the number of women and minorities in the field of cyber security, Missouri University of Science and Technology is working with the University...
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Where Cinema and Biology Meet
When Robert A. Lue considers the "Star Wars" Death Star, his first thought is not of outer space, but inner space.
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In Search of More Than a Few Good Geeks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity division has multiplied its employees by six in the past two years, but the agency is still understaffed...
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Openstudy Aims to Create Worldwide Study Group
OpenStudy is a social media site that hooks up students from all across the globe, making the entire world a study group.
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Illinois Students Build 33-Teraflop Cluster From Gpus
Students at the University of Illinois have built a supercomputer out of GPUs as part of a hands-on class. They expect the cluster to be ranked on the Green500...
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Twitter Can Increase Student Engagement, Boost Grades
Using a social networking platform such as Twitter as a tool in university courses can increase student engagement and boost grades. That's the conclusion of a...
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niversities May Be Failing to Sufficiently Teach Basic Research Skills
Colleges and universities may be failing to prepare students for today's information-driven workplace where research skills and collaborative learning are becoming...
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Wising p on STEM Completion
Arizona State University researchers recently unveiled CareerWISE, a website designed to increase the retention of women pursuing degrees and careers in science...
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Taking Movies Beyond Avatar
University of Abertay Dundee researchers have developed a technique that builds on the virtual cameras used in the movie "Avatar" by using home computers and motion...
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Video Game Design Program Boosts Interest in Science Careers
Funded by a U.S. National Science Foundation grant, a George Mason University program is using video game design as a way to increase student interest in science...
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DARPA-Funded Project to Spark Computer Science Education
DARPA recently awarded TopCoder a contract to develop a virtual community featuring competitions and educational resources in order to boost computer science education...
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Strengthening the Voice of ndergraduate Research
The Council on Undergraduate Research and the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research have joined forces to form a new organization to strengthen and promote...
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Teaching Real-World Programming
In an innovative software-engineering class, students meet for regular "code reviews" with senior programmers from Boston-area companies.
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