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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Sarita Adve Named Recipient of ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
The University of Illinois professor helped develop memory consistency models.
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Japan Preschools sing Tablets to Prep Tots for Digital Age
Almost 400 kindergartens and nursery schools in Japan are using smartphone software applications on tablet computers to enable "digital play" among preschoolers...
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A New Movement in Seismology
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.
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What Comes After the Roomba?
It has been 16 years since the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner was introduced by iRobot.
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Robot 'Talks' to MPs About Future of AI in the Classroom
A robot recently addressed the U.K.'s Parliament on the future role of artificial intelligence in British education.
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MIT Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced a plan to establish a new artificial intelligence college.
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Mozilla's Ambitious Plan to Teach Coders Not to Be Evil
Several organizations last week jointly launched an academic contest to incorporate ethics into undergraduate computer science education.
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As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market
Dozens of employers looking to hire the next generation of tech employees descended on the University of California, Berkeley in September to meet students at an...
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Just 36 Teachers Across .S. Graduated in 2016 Ready to Teach CS
U.S. universities graduated only 36 new teachers prepared to teach computer science in 2016, and only 35% of U.S. high schools teach the subject.
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These Scientists May Be Your Next Members of Congress
A growing number of aspiring candidates for U.S. congressional offices have a background in science.
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Lynn Conway and the VLSI Revolution in Microchip Design
Although struggling with personal life, Conway made a breakthrough discovery that rewrote what engineers thought single-stream computer architecture might achieve...
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Scientists se AI to Predict Why Children Struggle at School
Scientists have used machine learning to determine why some children struggle at school.
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Pushing the Boundaries of Learning With AI
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM are collaborating on a project to teach students Mandarin in virtual environments.
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There Are Many More Female STEM Teachers Now Than 20 Years Ago
The population of female instructors in U.S. science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) public schools has grown significantly in the past 20 years.
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AS Team Wins AI Commentator Track of the KAIST World Cup 2018
Arizona State University's team won the artificial intelligence commentator track of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology AI World Cup 2018 competition...
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Software Helps Analyze Writing Disabilities
Researchers have developed a software program that can analyze children's writing disabilities and their causes.
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State-Level Policy for Computer Science Education Continues to Grow
A report by Code.org found many U.S. states are aggressively implementing policies in support of computer science education across K-12 curriculums.
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'Optical Tweezers' and Tools sed for Laser Eye Surgery Snag Physics Nobel
Optical physicists Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking inventions in the field of...
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