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Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent
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Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent

With artificial intelligence expertise in short supply, artificial intelligence talent is commanding huge salaries from the largest technology companies.

Making Big Data a Little Smaller
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Making Big Data a Little Smaller

Researchers  have validated the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma for reducing data dimensionality.

The Shape of Work to Come 
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The Shape of Work to Come 

Last year, entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun set out to augment his sales force with artificial intelligence.

AI Algorithms Are Starting to Teach AI Algorithms
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AI Algorithms Are Starting to Teach AI Algorithms

Artificial intelligence researchers and companies are applying machine learning to automate the more complicated aspects of AI algorithm development.

Study Finds Auto-Fix Tool Gets More Programmers to ­pgrade Code
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Study Finds Auto-Fix Tool Gets More Programmers to ­pgrade Code

Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that auto-fix tools are effective ways to get programmers to make relevant upgrades.

China's Xi Calls For More Technology Development
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China's Xi Calls For More Technology Development

President Xi Jinping called Wednesday for the ruling Communist Party to lead development of Chinese technology industries, an area fraught with trade tensions and...

Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
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Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords

When David Stinson finished high school, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1977, the first thing he did was get a job building houses.

Justices to Decide on Forcing Technology Firms to Provide Data Held Abroad
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Justices to Decide on Forcing Technology Firms to Provide Data Held Abroad

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether federal prosecutors can force technology companies to turn over data stored outside the United States. 

Put Humans at the Center of AI
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Put Humans at the Center of AI

Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab director Fei-Fei Li advocates for more human-centered AI and the benefits it can yield.

Johns Hopkins Scientists to Build Machine Translation System For Obscure Languages
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Johns Hopkins Scientists to Build Machine Translation System For Obscure Languages

A team of scientists has received a grant from the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence to create an information retrieval and translation system...

Driverless Cars Learn From Humans in Greenwich Project
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Driverless Cars Learn From Humans in Greenwich Project

Tests are underway in the London borough of Greenwich in the U.K. that could expedite the development of safer driverless vehicles under the government-funded Move_UK...

7 Ways to Get More Girls and Women Into STEM (and Encourage Them to Stay)
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7 Ways to Get More Girls and Women Into STEM (and Encourage Them to Stay)

A recent forum of industry and academic experts offered proposals for encouraging girls and women to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math careers. ...

Careers For Women in Technology Companies Are a Global Challenge
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Careers For Women in Technology Companies Are a Global Challenge

Gender bias in technology is a problem for women on both sides of the Atlantic, although the challenges and opportunities they face can differ due to political...

Shafi Goldwasser Appointed Director of the Simons Institute For the Theory of Computing
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Shafi Goldwasser Appointed Director of the Simons Institute For the Theory of Computing

The Turing laureate will become the new director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, on January 1, 2018...

Discovery and Innovation to Quicken With Supercomputer's $1-Million ­pgrade
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Discovery and Innovation to Quicken With Supercomputer's $1-Million ­pgrade

A $1-million grant will help Clemson University's Palmetto Cluster supercomputer aid researchers in accelerating the pace of scientific discovery and technological...

Google, Facebook and Twitter scramble to Hold Washington at Bay
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Google, Facebook and Twitter scramble to Hold Washington at Bay

Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company's size has made it too attractive as a target for government...

Scientists Store Miles Davis and Deep Purple Audio Recordings on Dna in a Historic First
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Scientists Store Miles Davis and Deep Purple Audio Recordings on Dna in a Historic First

Researchers say they have successfully encoded two high-quality audio recordings onto artificial DNA, the first time this has been accomplished for the purposes...

Filling the Pipeline For Computer Science Teachers
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Filling the Pipeline For Computer Science Teachers

A shortage of computer science teachers is impeding state and local educators' adoption of new computer science mandates for students.

'mind-Boggling' Math Could Make Blockchain Work For Wall Street
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'mind-Boggling' Math Could Make Blockchain Work For Wall Street

A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private...

USC Isi Researchers Poised to Crack the Code on Reducing Workplace Stress
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USC Isi Researchers Poised to Crack the Code on Reducing Workplace Stress

Researchers aim to relieve workplace stress by first understanding its causes.
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