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Computation & Data

Researchers have found clues about obesity by counting steps via smartphones. | Illustration/Stefani Billings

Jul 10, 2017

By counting steps, researchers discover ‘activity inequality’

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

Who will control the swarm? | iStock/Chesky_W

Jun 19, 2017

Who will control the swarm?

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Transportation & Robotics

Natural language processing is a key part of the artificial intelligence revolution. | Illustration by Stefani Billings

May 22, 2017

Chris Manning: How computers are learning to understand language

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

How do we responsibly prepare for artificial intelligence and smart machines? | Illustration by Farrah Yoo

May 15, 2017

Fei-Fei Li and Chris Gerdes: The future of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Transportation & Robotics

Researchers are developing quantum computers based on light rather than electricity, to solve problems too gnarly for electronics. | iStock/Pobytov

May 9, 2017

Taking a quantum leap from electronics to new computers based on light

Computation & Data

Using an algorithm to help set bail could keep many defendants out of jail without increasing the risk of flight to avoid trial. | Stocksy/Clique Images

May 3, 2017

Exploring the use of algorithms in the criminal justice system

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

The next level of data storage is 3D | iStock, Henrik5000

May 2, 2017

A breakthrough in digital storage, powered by data science

Computation & Data

Apr 28, 2017

What are the biggest trends in data science?

Computation & Data

A new way to verify the accuracy of computerized neural networks treats their structures like the branches of a tree. | iStock/trekandshoot

Apr 25, 2017

Finally, a peek inside the ‘black box’ of machine learning systems

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Data science will change the way business leaders look at problems. | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Apr 19, 2017

Sinead Kaiya: The marriage of data science and global enterprise

Computation & Data

“Not everyone that cares about data science understands what it is or how to use it. It’s up to us to educate.” | iStock/monsitj

Mar 22, 2017

Deborah Frincke: The data science of national security

Computation & Data

Insights on the overlap between health care, data science and artificial intelligence | Shutterstock/Bloomicon

Mar 22, 2017

Finale Doshi-Velez: Marrying data science and health care

Computation & Data

Predictive models have lead to tremendous advances, but they’re not without their pitfalls. | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Mar 15, 2017

Claudia Perlich: The secret life of predictive models

Computation & Data

Artificial intelligence now powers just a small fraction of the online interactions that will soon be possible. | Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Mar 14, 2017

Why AI could be as transformational as electricity

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

Margot Gerritsen at the second annual Women in Data Science Conference. | Photo by Ved Chirayath

Mar 9, 2017

Inspiring, connecting and educating women in data science

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Six expert views on different aspects of the data security conundrum. | iStock/mattjeacock

Mar 2, 2017

How can we keep data safe, secure and private in our wired world?

Computation & Data, Security

"We wanted to understand why trolling is so prevalent today," said Justin Cheng, a computer science researcher at Stanford. | Stocksy/Mosuno

Feb 9, 2017

Under the right circumstances, anyone can become an Internet troll

Computation & Data, Security

A starfish larva to the right of a vortex of water. | Image by Rebecca Konte/Prakash Lab

Dec 20, 2016

Starfish larvae create whorls of water that allow them to eat and run

Computation & Data, Environment

Swing voter? | Reuters/Brendan McDermid

Dec 5, 2016

Sharad Goel: How the presidential election flummoxed the pollsters

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Stocksy/Blai Baules

Dec 1, 2016

Balancing design and technology to tackle grand global challenges

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Stocksy/Catherine MacBride

Nov 17, 2016

How understanding probability helps us make better decisions

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Researchers find order in the seemingly random process of how droplets move through narrow spaces. | Image credit: Ella Maru

Oct 11, 2016

A team finds order in a process once thought to be random

Computation & Data

Can today's speech recognition software outperform a generation that grew up texting? | iStock/tamergunal

Aug 25, 2016

Smartphone speech recognition is faster and more accurate than typing

Computation & Data

Advances in computer science make it possible to map poverty by gleaning new insights from existing satellite images. | Photo courtesy of NASA

Aug 19, 2016

Machine learning uses satellite data to zero in on poverty pockets

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society