Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Control System Simulator Helps Operators Learn to Fight Hackers
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a simulator that helps to secure industrial control systems against hackers.
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Female, Minority Students Took AP Computer Science in Record Numbers
Participation by female, African-American, and Latino students in Advanced Placement computer science courses boomed this year.
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Chicago-Area Schools Look to Shrink the Gender Gap in STEM Classes
Chicago-area educators are striving to close the gender gap among students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) classes.
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Kids Connect With Robot Reading Partners
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a robot to serve as a reading partner for middle school students.
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Robotic Implants
Scientists are developing tiny medical machines that stretch the definition of the term "robot."
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AI Has a Racial Bias Problem. Google Is Funding Summer Camps to Try to Change That
The Oakland, CA-based nonprofit AI4All will use a $1-million grant from Google.org to broaden its outreach to young underrepresented minorities and women.
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Researchers Study Disparities in STEM Career Aspirations for nderrepresented Students
Researchers measured the sociodemographic disparities and changes in career aspirations in STEM fields among U.S. high school students.
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How npaywall Is Transforming Open Science
After being kicked out of a hotel conference room where they had participated in a three-day open-science workshop and hackathon, a group of computer scientists...
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Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master's Degree Online for Less Than $10,000
The Georgia Institute of Technology will offer an online cybersecurity master's degree that will cost students less than $10,000, in collaboration with edX.
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RPI Scientists Develop VR Surgery to Feel Real
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have developed a virtual reality system to add realism to virtual surgical training.
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AI for Social Good: Addressing the Need for Women in Tech
May's AI for Social Good Lab initiative provided 30 undergraduate women from across Canada the opportunity to use artificial intelligence to address a social issue...
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Alexa, Be My Friend: Children Talk to Technology, But How Does It Respond?
Voice interfaces that repeat or prompt users to communicate could be more useful to children than currently available technologies.
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Decoding the Pipeline for Tech's 'Hidden Figures'
Researchers are working to acknowledge and understand the "double-bind" for women of color in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
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A Generation Grows p in China Without Google, Facebook or Twitter
Wei Dilong, 18, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, likes basketball, hip-hop music and Hollywood superhero movies. He plans to study chemistry in...
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Programmers Need Ethics When Designing the Technologies that Influence People's Lives
Computing professionals are on the front lines of almost every aspect of the modern world.
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Adopting a Culture of Transparency
Software is used increasingly to determine the existence of scientific fraud in published studies.
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of T Launches Canada's First Engineering ndergraduate Program in Machine Intelligence
The University of Toronto has unveiled Canada's first undergraduate engineering science program in machine intelligence.
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The 2018 Top Programming Languages
IEEE Spectrum's fifth annual interactive ranking of the top programming languages draws on metrics from multiple sources to rank 47 languages.
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Open Source Software Creates Powerful, Accurate Simulations for Movement Research
Researchers have expanded and enhanced an open source movement simulator that addresses problems in medicine, paleontology, and animal locomotion.
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