Teach Global Impact in CSP | Resources and Strategies

Why We Should Not Know Our Own Passwords

March 20, 2017March 20, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: The Conversation, 3/9/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Elon University Professor Megan Squire looks into possible methods for protecting the data on your smartphone and social media accounts. The article focuses on potential searches…

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Machine Learning Reveals Lack of Female Screen Time in Top Films

March 17, 2017March 17, 2017 by Anna Clark

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Published By: New Scientist, 3/8/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Shri Narayanan, from the University of Southern California, has developed a new program that runs facial recognition software and voice recognition software simultaneously to analyze…

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Virtual Reality Training for “Safety-Critical” Jobs

March 15, 2017March 15, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: University of Exeter, 3/6/2017 >> View the Article << Summary A virtual-reality training system currently in development by Exeter-based researchers and experts from the nuclear power industry could help prevent accidents in high-risk jobs.…

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Twitter Inches Forward in Fight Against Abuse

March 14, 2017March 14, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: The Huffington Post, 3/1/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Twitter is making efforts to crack down on harassment on their platform using several strategies: enhancing the Mute feature with new screening options, increasing…

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Robot Uses Social Feedback to Fetch Objects Intelligently

March 13, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Brown University, 3/6/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Brown's Humans to Robots Lab has developed an algorithm to reduce the errors a robot makes when it fetches an object. The robot asks questions and…

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Bridging a Digital Divide That Leaves Schoolchildren Behind

March 10, 2017March 10, 2017 by Anna Clark

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Published By: The New York Times, 2/22/2017 >> View the Article << Summary The federal government is attempting to bridge the growing digital divide in low-income families by expanding a subsidy program, Lifeline, to include broadband Internet…

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Scientists Reveal New Super-Fast Form of Computer That “Grows As It Computes”

March 8, 2017March 8, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: University of Manchester, 3/1/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from the University of Manchester have demonstrated that it is possible to build a super-fast self-replicating computer. Because it is composed of DNA…

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Machine-Learning Algorithms Can Predict Suicide Risk More Readily Than Clinicians, Study Finds

March 7, 2017March 6, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Newsweek, 2/27/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Human clinicians are known not to be very accurate at predicting suicides, so researchers are developing machine-learning algorithms that use multiple factors to identify short-term suicide risk.…

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Twitter Researchers Offer Clues for Why Trump Won

March 6, 2017March 14, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: University of Rochester, 2/20/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Jiebo Luo and Yu Wang are using Twitter data to develop models that would correctly predict the result of the 2016 presidential election. They are…

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AI Predicts Autism From Infant Brain Scans

March 3, 2017 by Anna Clark

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Published By: IEEE Spectrum, 2/15/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill have applied deep-learning algorithms to brain scans of children with a high risk of autism. Algorithms…

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Google Cousin Develops Technology to Flag Toxic Online Comments

March 2, 2017March 2, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: The New York Times, 2/23/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Google Alphabet has developed new software called Perspective that will flag potentially problematic user comments, for example so news sites can narrow down…

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Computer Crashes May Be Due to Forces Beyond Our Solar System

March 1, 2017March 14, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: Computer World, 2/17/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Interference from subatomic particles could be the cause of serious computer malfunctions at the hardware level. A single-event upset, or SEU, can disrupt microelectric circuitry,…

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