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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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The Uncertain Future For Social Robots
Being hacked by a robot requires much less hardware than I expected. There’s no need for virtual-reality goggles or 3D holograms. There are no skullcaps studded...
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Survey Reveals Ways to Enhance Teens' Interest in STEM
A recent Lemelson-MIT Invention Index survey found that teens are enthusiastic about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), with 77 percent interested...
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Educators Seek New Ways to Steer Kids Toward Technical Fields
School systems across the United States are pushing students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by providing joint programs with...
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Game Changers: How Videogames Trained a Generation of Athletes
The situation was desperate for the Denver Broncos. On the first Sunday of the National Football League’s 2009 season, with only 28 seconds left in the game, they...
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Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We
In computing, the vision always precedes the reality by a decade or more. The pattern has held true from the personal computer to the Internet, as it takes time...
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Supercomputer Breakthrough Allows Astronomers to Share niverse Simulations
Supercomputing has helped astrophysicists create massive models of the universe, but such simulations remain out of reach for many in the United States and around...
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Female Teachers Can Transfer Fear of Math and ndermine Girls' Math Performance
University of Chicago researchers have found that female elementary school teachers can pass on their anxiety and stereotypes about math to female students.
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The Web Way to Learn a Language
The young woman seated next to us at the sushi bar exuded a vaguely exotic air; her looks and style, we thought, made it likely that she was not American born. ...
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Eff Reveals How Your Digital Fingerprint Makes You Easy to Track
Think that turning off cookies and turning on private browsing makes you invisible on the web? Think again. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched...
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Quantum Computer Simulates Hydrogen Molecule Just Right
Almost three decades ago, Richard Feynman — known popularly as much for his bongo drumming and pranks as for his brilliant insights into physics — told an electrified...
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Forty Students Named Finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search 2010
Forty high school seniors from across the United States were named finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search 2010, a program of Society for Science & the Public...
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China Set For Global Lead in Scientific Research
China has demonstrated the most growth in scientific research of any country in the past three decades and is on pace to overtake the United States as the world's...
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Colleges Look For New Ways to Help Women in Science
Colleges have developed programs to support women in science and engineering through the use of federal grants such as those offered under the U.S. National Science...
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Apple Wins Patent For "proximity Sensing" Multi-Touch Display
Apple has been granted a patent for a multi-touch display that can sense when and where a finger is near the screen. The patent was one of 13 granted to Apple,U...
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U.s. Keeps Foreign Ph.d.s
Most foreigners who came to the U.S. to earn doctorate degrees in science and engineering stayed on after graduation — at least until the recession began — refuting...
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ACM Fellows Honored
Forty-seven men and women are inducted as 2009 ACM Fellows.
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Teaching Computer Games
Rapid computer game creation (RCGC) could be used to close the digital divide, according to Nikunj Dalal and colleagues at Oklahoma State University. Schools and...
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Touchscreen Merges the Real and Digital Worlds
For all the advances in table-top and tablet computing, some design professionals will always prefer the feel of pen on paper to stylus on glass. A new device could...
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Engineering Firm Awards Contract To Rowan niversity Computer Science Team
Mission Solutions Engineering has awarded a $100,000 one-year contract to Rowan University to help the firm improve the capabilities of a software system called...
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