Educational researchers have long held that presenting students with clear outlines of the material covered in lectures improves their retention.
Computer Sciences
Feb 11, 2015
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Log on to Twitter, Facebook or other social media and you will find that much of the content shared with you comes in the form of images, not just words. Those images can convey a lot more than a sentence might, and will ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 6, 2015
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Every undergraduate computer-science major takes a course on data structures, which describes different ways of organizing data in a computer's memory. Every data structure has its own advantages: Some are good for fast retrieval, ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 30, 2015
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If Johnny has five apples and seven oranges, and he wants to share them with three of his friends, can a computer understand the text to figure out how many pieces of fruit each person gets?
Computer Sciences
Jan 21, 2015
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Computers are basically machines that process information in the form of electronic zeros and ones. But two MIT professors of materials science and engineering are trying to change that.
General Physics
Jan 8, 2015
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Communication protocols for digital devices are very efficient but also very brittle: They require information to be specified in a precise order with a precise number of bits. If sender and receiver—say, a computer and ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 12, 2014
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In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer beat chess wizard Gary Kasparov. This year, a computer system developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison achieved something far more complex. It equaled or bested scientists at the ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 1, 2014
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Many of the complex computer models which are used to predict climate change could be missing an important ozone 'feedback' factor in their calculations of future global warming, according to new research led by the University ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2014
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When a biologist who studies bats and a computer scientist cross paths, amazingly cool things can happen.
Engineering
Nov 14, 2014
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University of Utah computer scientists have developed software that not only detects and eradicates never-before-seen viruses and other malware, but also automatically repairs damage caused by them. The software then prevents ...
Software
Nov 13, 2014
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