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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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Tardos to Receive von Neumann Medal
Tardos was cited "For contributions to the field of algorithms, including foundational new methods in optimization, approximation algorithms, and algorithmic game...
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China Expands Research Funding, Luring .S. Scientists And Students
In 2003, Jay Siegel was up for a new challenge. Siegel was a tenured professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, but he took a job at the...
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You Will Be Replaced. Here's How
Route 9 skims by Boston and cuts clear across Massachusetts to Pittsfield, a city of roughly 50,000, the largest in Berkshire County.
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Breaking the Code: Program Trains Young Adults for Computer Industry
A program sponsored by the Resilient Coders nonprofit is training young adults of color in the Boston area to break into the computer industry.
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Harvard Wants to School Congress About AI
Harvard Kennedy School's Dipayan Ghosh and former U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler have launched a new AI policy initiative aimed at educating U.S. politicians and...
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Technology for the Deaf
Why aren't better assistive technologies available for those communicating using ASL?
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AI Judges and Juries
Artificial intelligence is changing the legal industry.
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Playing Catch-p, Germany Throws Money at AI
Germany plans to invest more than 3 billion euros ($3.39 million) by 2025 to beef up its artificial intelligence capabilities and appoint 100 professors to lecture...
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FNecole: Social-Emotional Learning Meets Computer Science and Digital Literacy
A European company has combined social-emotional learning with computer science into an elementary education digital curriculum that may soon be offered to U.S....
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Computers + Collaboration = Student Learning, According to New Meta-Analysis
An international research team analyzed 425 studies conducted since 2000 and concluded computers that support student collaboration beneficially affect learning...
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Researchers Rev p Review of Peer Review
Although the global scientific community is becoming more diverse, developing ways to make certain peer reviewers are true "peers" is lagging behind.
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STEM Firms to Run .K. National Center for Computing Education
U.K. companies in the science, technology, engineering, and math sectors will work together to create and lead a U.K. National Center for Computing Education.
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Google in China: When 'Don't Be Evil' Met the Great Firewall
If you're planning on moving to China anytime soon, here's a piece of advice: Get yourself a WeChat account.
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A Robot Scientist Will Dream p New Materials to Advance Computing and Fight Pollution
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
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San Francisco Program Trains Homeless for Tech Jobs
A formerly homeless man has created a nonprofit organization to combat homelessness in San Francisco by teaching needy individuals the skills needed to work in...
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Can a Robot Learn a Language the Way a Child Does?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a method to train semantic parsers by mimicking the way a child learns language.
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Oregon Schools to Receive Federal Grant Funds to Boost Computer Science Education
Schools in three Oregon counties will use a federal grant to help high school students in Career Technical Education programs transition to post-secondary education...
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Colleges Grapple With Teaching the Technology, Ethics of AI
Many U.S. colleges and universities are investing in and expanding artificial intelligence education, confronting new challenges for teaching the discipline.
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English Has the Scientific Edge, for Now
For centuries, science was a multilingual affair, powered by French, German, English and other tongues. But since the early 1970s, English has become the undisputed...
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