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CS Program Can't Keep Up With Demand From Undergrads
From ACM Careers Only 7% of direct admission students were offered a spot in the Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington… GeekWire | June 1, 2023
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Welcome to the Desktop Degree

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, in 1995 to be precise, a scholar named Eli Noam published an article in the prestigious journal Science under the titleElectronics... The Guardian
From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2012
Studying Butterfly Flight to Help Build Bug-Size Flying Robots
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Studying Butterfly Flight to Help Build Bug-Size Flying Robots

By figuring out how butterflies flutter among flowers with amazing grace and agility, researchers at Johns Hopkins University hope to help build small airborne... Johns Hopkins ­niversity
From ACM Careers | February 3, 2012
Running Robots
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Running Robots

University of Delaware professor Ioannis Poulakakis is using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop systematic control strategies for four-legged robots... ­niversity of Delaware
From ACM Careers | January 31, 2012
From ACM News

Sebastian Thrun Resigns from Stanford to Launch ­dacity

Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity—an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search... I Programmer
From ACM News | January 24, 2012
Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots
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Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots

Georgia Tech researchers have studied the movements of snakes to create more efficient search-and-rescue robots. Georgia Institute of Technology
From ACM Careers | January 19, 2012
Surgical Robots to Provide Open-Source Platform For Medical Robotics Research
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Surgical Robots to Provide Open-Source Platform For Medical Robotics Research

Seven identical robots created and built at the UW will be flown to campuses across the country, where they will provide the first common research platform to develop... ­niversity of Washington
From ACM Careers | January 13, 2012
Advanced Computational Tools to Help Doctors Make Sense of Their Patients' DNA
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Advanced Computational Tools to Help Doctors Make Sense of Their Patients' DNA

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University say advanced computational tools will be the key to a new research project that, if successful, could enable doctors... Carnegie Mellon ­niversity
From ACM Careers | January 10, 2012
Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations
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Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations

After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian... The Los Angeles Times
From ACM News | January 3, 2012
From ACM News

First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside Sri's Amazing R&d

Who invented Siri? Wired
From ACM News | January 2, 2012
Flight of the Warbots
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Flight of the Warbots

How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones. Bloomberg Businessweek
From ACM Careers | December 13, 2011
Medical Robotics Experts Advance Nasa 'satellite Surgery' Project
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Medical Robotics Experts Advance Nasa 'satellite Surgery' Project

Johns Hopkins University engineers are applying their expertise with medical robotics to show NASA how to fix valuable satellites that are breaking down or running... Johns Hopkins ­niversity
From ACM Careers | December 6, 2011
Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations
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Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations

Paleoanthropologist Glenn Conroy and colleagues have developed artificial neural network models that predict prime locations to search for fossils. Washington ­niversity in St. Louis
From ACM Careers | November 22, 2011
Reading, Writing and Robotics: Bringing Cultural Education to Texas School Districts
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Reading, Writing and Robotics: Bringing Cultural Education to Texas School Districts

VGo, a sleek white remotely-controlled robot , will soon be used by Baylor University Libraries to enrich cultural education for children in grades K-12 across... Baylor ­niversity
From ACM Careers | November 17, 2011
Students ­se Futuristic Technology to Dive Into the Past
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Students ­se Futuristic Technology to Dive Into the Past

A new partnership between the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Watermen's Museum in historic Yorktown Virginia lets schoolchildren use robotic subs... Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary
From ACM Careers | November 8, 2011
More Jobs Predicted For Machines, Not People
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More Jobs Predicted For Machines, Not People

A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, according to two researchers at the... The New York Times
From ACM Careers | October 24, 2011
Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges
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Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges

During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable... Scientific American
From ACM News | October 17, 2011
Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem from Scratch
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Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem from Scratch

A team of scientists has taken a major step toward developing robot biologists. They have shown that their system, the Automated Biology Explorer, can solve a complicated... Vanderbilt ­niversity
From ACM Careers | October 14, 2011
'thinking Machines' Will Guide Future Power Grids
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'thinking Machines' Will Guide Future Power Grids

Plans to develop the "smart" grid cannot succeed without the creation of new "thinking machines" that can learn and adapt to new situations, says Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy... Missouri ­niversity of Science and Technology
From ACM Careers | October 12, 2011
WPI's Robotics Engineering Program Receives Accreditation
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WPI's Robotics Engineering Program Receives Accreditation

Four years after the launching a robotics engineering program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute is the only university in the United States with bachelor's, master's... Worcester Polytechnic Institute
From ACM Careers | October 5, 2011
Ready For the Robot Revolution?
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Ready For the Robot Revolution?

Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists... BBC News
From ACM News | October 3, 2011
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