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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In Silicon Valley, Coders Are Making More Room For Curators
It's been almost a decade since the debut of the Netflix Prize, a $1 million bounty for the person or group that could best improve the company’s movie suggestion...
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Researchers Open Repository For 'dark Data'
The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding an effort to develop a one-stop shop to house researchers' data sets after they publish their papers.
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The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
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Camp Gives Middle School Girls Hands-On Experience in Engineering
The University of California, Berkeley's Girls in Engineering summer camps are aimed at narrowing the gender gap in the science, technology, engineering, and math...
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Nfl Teams Train Qbs with Vr
The Dallas Cowboys is the first professional football team to use Virtual Reality in player training; others are following suit.
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The Unintended Consequences of Rationality
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences professor David C. Parkes contends rational models of economics are applicable to artificial intelligence.
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Nsa Summer Camp: More Hacking Than Hiking
The U.S. National Security Agency is seeking to cultivate middle- and high-school student interest and proficiency in cybersecurity in a new summer camp program...
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RoboCup World Championship: UNSW Student Engineers Take Robots to China to Defend Title
University of New South Wales student engineers are in Hefei, China, to defend their Standard Platform League title at the RoboCup World Championships.
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New Cyber Programs Debut in California, Louisiana
Louisiana Tech University and the University of San Diego are creating new cyber programs.
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Can the Apple Watch Enhance Student Achievement?
Pennsylvania State University researchers will test how the Apple Watch can enhance student achievement via self-regulation and learning strategy.
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Virtual Medical Training: Don’t Call It Virtual Reality
Medical professionals prefer to reference the technology with terms that are "less sci-fi."
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National Security Agency Funds c Berkeley Cybersecurity Summer Camp For High School Students
The University of California, Berkeley is hosting a camp called CY-BEAR to teach 22 high school students about cybersecurity.
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Study: Smartphone Use May Be Detrimental to Learning
A year-long study of first-time smartphone users by Rice University and the U.S. Air Force found users believed the devices were detrimental to their ability to...
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Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children
Excessive use of computer games among young people in China appears to be taking an alarming turn and may have particular relevance for American parents whose children...
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Here Are the 12 Most Influential Programmers Working Today
The apps and games you use every day don't exist in a vacuum—someone, somewhere, wrote the code.
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Survey: Moocs Supplement Traditional Higher Ed
Youngsters, retirees, and other non-traditional student populations have embraced massive open online courses (MOOCs), according to a new survey. Students reported...
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Bbc Offers Free Tiny Computers to .k. Students
The BBC is partnering with more than two dozen companies and organizations to provide at least 1 million British school children with a free pocket-sized computer...
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No Internet? No Problem. Inside Cuba's Tech Revolution
Robin Pedraja, a lanky 28-year-old former design student from Havana, walked into the Cuban government’s office of periodicals and publications early last year...
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How Computer Science Education Has Changed
The rapid advancement of technology has supported changes in many aspects of computer science education, while other aspects have remained consistent.
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