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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The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out of STEM
Gender bias appears to be a key contributor to the scarcity of U.S. women in science, technology, engineering, and math, according to new studies.
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So, Arkansas Is Leading the Learn to Code Movement
Arkansas took the lead in pushing computer science in schools last month when it passed a law requiring all public and charter schools to offer computer science...
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Carnegie Mellon's Snake Robots Learn to Turn By Following the Lead of Real Sidewinders
Researchers analyzed the motions of sidewinder rattlesnakes and tested their observations on snake robots.
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Learning to See Data
For the past year or so genetic scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been collaborating with a specialist from another universe...
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Supercomputers Give niversities a Competitive Edge, Researchers Find
Clemson University researchers found universities with locally available supercomputers are more efficient in producing research in critical fields than universities...
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Why Organism Engineering Could Be a Foodie's Dream Come True
Thanks to recent advances in synthetic biology—a hybrid discipline of engineering and biology that makes possible the manipulation of DNA of microorganisms such...
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Computer Science Surge Sparks Campus Building Boom
Colleges and universities across the U.S. have been building new facilities to keep up with expanding science, technology, engineering, and math programs.
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Obama, Wowed By Young Scientists, Announces New STEM Pledges
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday announced more than $240 million in pledges to boost the study of science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Stonebraker Receives 2014 ACM A.m. Turing Award
MIT’s Stonebraker brought relational database systems from concept to commercial success.
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Voice Control Will Force an Overhaul of the Whole Internet
Jason Mars built his own Siri and then he gave it away.
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Next in Live Entertainment: Watching People Code
Streaming video of developers as they code is gaining a growing audience.
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What's the Price Now?
Dynamic pricing finds its way into a growing number of industries.
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Secure-System Designers Strive to STEM Data Leaks
Attackers using side-channel analysis require little knowledge of how an implementation operates.
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Molecular Moonshots
Synthetic biologists may be closing in on potentially world-changing breakthroughs, but they are often hamstrung by a shortage of software tools.
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'space Lawyers' Help Startups Navigate the Final Legal Frontier
When Sagi Kfir meets people and tells them he is a "space attorney," they usually think he has a strange way of saying he is in real estate.
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The Simple, Elegant Algorithm That Makes Google Maps Possible
Programming pioneer Edsger W. Dijkstra's namesake algorithm remains one of the cleverest things in computer science.
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Cyborg Beetle Research Allows Free-Flight Study of Insects
University of California, Berkeley researchers are studying cyborg insects to learn more about a muscle used by beetles for finely graded turns.
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Seven Strategies For Keeping Women in STEM Fields
The 28-member Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering Working Group has developed a seven-point plan for achieving gender equity in science, technology,...
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Bbc Unveils Micro Bit Coding Device For Make It Digital Initiative
The BBC plans to offer a coding device to more than 1 million U.K. schoolchildren as part of its Make it Digital Initiative.
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