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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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Tech vs. Trump War Over Immigration Intensifies
Shortly after his election victory, Donald Trump assembled executives from tech giants including Amazon, Apple and Google for a meeting at Trump Tower meant to...
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Army, Industry Computer Scientists Gather For 'hackathon'
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NSCTA) recently held the first hackathon at the Adelphi Laboratory...
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NCSES Publishes Latest Women, Minorities, and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering Report
The U.S. National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics has published a report quantifying the underrepresentation of women...
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CS Professor Starts Club to Combat Stereotypes Against Women in Computer Sciences
The computer science program at Colorado State University is making a concentrated effort to attract female students and create a more diverse and welcoming environment...
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nhappy Developers Lead to Bad Code and Bad Processes
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany have found unhappy developers adversely affect the development process and software products.
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Tech Scrambles After Trump Issues Immigration Order
President Donald Trump's broad executive order to restrict visas and refugees particularly from Muslim countries left tech giants like Apple, Facebook, Google and...
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It's Not the Algorithm, It's the Data
In risk assessment and predictive policing, biased data can yield biased results.
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What Better Way For the Marines to Prepare For Future Wars Than With Sci-Fi?
Lance Cpl. Steven West steps into a remote enemy hideout clad in a 350-pound exoskeleton, sensors piercing the darkness and displaying digital info on his helmet...
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In 2017, China Is Doubling Down on AI
This year, China looks set to make larger waves than ever in artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
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Rice Has Role in New $250m Robotics Manufacturing Institute
Rice University will be among 40 academic partners working to create, deploy robotic technology.
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Research Led By Clemson niversity Could Help Revolutionize Transportation
Researchers at Clemson University's new Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility aim to improve the mobility of people and goods and explore how the emerging Internet...
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Prisoner Programmers
One organization hopes teaching inmates to code can help keep them out of prison.
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Microsoft Thinks Machines Can Learn to Converse By Making Chat a Game
Microsoft is buying a deep learning startup based in Montreal, a global hub for deep learning research.
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Computer Models Help Fight Climate Change
Salt marsh modeling holds the potential to protect coastal locations from rising sea levels.
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Robots Will Take Jobs, but Not as Fast as Some Fear, New Report Says
The march of automation will displace jobs more gradually than some alarming forecasts suggest.
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Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs, and We're Not Ready For It
The McDonald's on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn/t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain's other locations...
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Innovators Wanted: Machine Learning, Iot Jobs on the Rise
The job market for machine learning and artificial intelligence-related positions is heating up.
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Attackers Can Make It Impossible to Dial 911
A new cyberattack strategy can block access to 911 emergency services by exploiting vulnerabilities in the system.
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Pcast Releases Report on Ensuring .s. Leadership in Semiconductors
The Computing Research Association has been involved in shaping public policy of relevance to computing research for more than two decades.
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