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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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ACM Turing Award Goes to Pioneer Who Advanced Reliability and Consistency of Computing Systems
Microsoft's Lamport Contributed to Theory and Practice of Building Distributed Computing Systems that Work
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IBM Nurtures Mainframe Workforce With World Championship
IBM recently announced its first-ever "Master the Mainframe" world championship.
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.
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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.
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Researchers Exchange Mooc Results in Learning@scale Conference
Nearly 200 attendees from both computer science and learning science met to exchange research on MOOCs at the first annual ACM Learning@Scale Conference in Atlanta...
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Women of Color Nurture Minority Girls' Interest in STEM
Women represent a small fraction of those in science, technology, engineering, and math, and minority women even less, a National Science Foundation study finds...
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...
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Women in It: The Next Generation
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory is working to improve the image of computer science by training the next generation of STEM workers.
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Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Mastermind Behind Gravity, Talks Physics Lessons, Nasa Imagery, and Defining the Art of Cg 'weightlessness' in Space
Tim Webber is a visual effects supervisor who has worked on an array of critically acclaimed blockbusters.
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It's Cool to Be a Geek, Eu Tells Women
The European Commission has created a new campaign to attract women to the information and communications technology sector.
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Linux Foundation to Offer Introductory Linux Mooc on Edx
The Linux Foundation plans to offer a Linux development course on edX, the massive open online course platform developed by MIT and Harvard University.
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Successful Silicon Valley Women Star in Stanford Video Series Urging Young Women to Get Into Computing
A volunteer group of female undergraduates at Stanford University has created a series of motivational videos to encourage young women to enter computer science...
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The Quantified Computer Scientist: Larry Smarr on the Future of Medicine
A conversation with computer scientist Larry Smarr
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The First Woman to Get a Ph.d. in Computer Science From MIT
Irene Greif talks to The Atlantic about her life and legacy.
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Digital Ears in the Rainforest: Estimating Dynamics of Animal Populations By Using Sound Recordings and Computing
A team of researchers is developing a system to estimate the dynamics of animal populations by using sound recordings, statistics, and scientific computing.
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Interviewing the Algorithm
Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.
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Women Talk Tech and Careers in Computer Science
Women from 32 countries attended the womENcourage conference Saturday at Manchester University to encourage women in the field of computer science.
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New Report Presents Recommendations and Initiatives to Address CS Education Challenges
A new ACM report urges states to provide more opportunities for students to gain the skills and knowledge needed to compete for high-wage computing positions.
From ACM Opinion