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Computer Science Students Honored for Humanizing Robots With Humor
Three Stanford computer science students developed a model that can detect humor in spoken language and predict when a conversational…
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How to Convert Your Wall into a Giant Touch Screen
The right paint can add pizazz to your walls—and now it can also make them smarter.
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The Most Important Inventor You've Never Heard Of
When The Economist called Stanford Ovshinsky "the Edison of our age," the name might have been unfamiliar to most people, but the comparison was apt.
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The Milky Way's Speediest Stars Could Solve a 50-Year-Old Mystery
Ken Shen was racing against the sun.
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How to Find a Woman Scientist
A new database is fighting the poor visibility of women in STEM by offering female professionals as speakers, panelists, experts, course leaders, and advocates...
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I Am a Roboticist in a Cheese Factory
Most people think about robots as autonomous machines guided by artificial intelligence.
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Fowl Language: AI Decodes the Nuances of Chicken 'speech'
How machine learning can translate chicken chatter and improve farming.
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Could the 'alzheimer's Gene' Finally Become a Drug Target?
Among hundreds of genes that might nudge your risk of Alzheimer's up or down, Apolipoprotein E (APOE) has the strongest effect.
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Exploring a Different Kind of Team Sport
Imagine that you wanted to get teens excited about a competitive, extracurricular team.
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What We Know About the Climate Change-Hurricane Connection
With Texas just beginning to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey and the Southeastern U.S. preparing for Hurricane Irma's iminent arrival, people...
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Floating Treasure: Space Law Needs to Catch Up with Asteroid Mining
The Outer Space Treaty (OST) turns 50 in October. The foundational 1967 pact establishes space as "the province of all mankind" and forbids the nearly 100 states...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop in the Classroom
Although computer use during class may create the illusion of enhanced engagement with course content, it more often reflects engagement with social media, YouTube...
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Quantum Computers Compete For 'supremacy'
Scientists have long dreamed of developing quantum computers, machines that rely on arcane laws of physics to perform tasks far beyond the capability of today's...
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New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing
People with Parkinson's disease may show hints of motor difficulty years before an official diagnosis, but current methods for catching early symptoms require clinic...
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
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When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...
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Hpe Debuts Its Next-Gen Computer--Sans Much-Anticipated Memristors
Three years ago HPE (formerly Hewlett–Packard) laid out its vision for a radical redesign of the computer that would deliver hitherto unimaginable performance in...
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World's First 'cybathlon' Pits High-Tech Prosthetics Against One Another
Bob Radocy finished screwing a light bulb into a lamp perched on the desk ... and the crowd went wild.
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Highlights from the 2016 World Maker Faire
The chill in the air last weekend was a reminder that fall has arrived in New York City.
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