Computing
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ComputingExplainer: What is a computer model?
Computer models use data, math and computer instructions to predict events in the real world.
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ComputingModels: How computers make predictions
They use numbers to model real-world activities. And new insights in math are streamlining models’ design.
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Computing3-D printers are making cars!
3-D printing technology makes it possible to print anything — even a car. A team of engineers designed the Strati and then printed the electric cars at events in Chicago and New York.
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ComputingElectricity: Cutting the cords
Engineers are working to charge more wireless gadgets — without relying on cords and plugs.
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ComputingIntel STS finalist’s computer program models social life
Ajay Saini has brought together math and computer science to show how habits spread within social groups. His new computer program could help promote healthy habits.
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ComputingTeen wins $100,000 for flu advance
Forty talented high-school seniors competed in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search this week, sharing $630,000 in prizes. Top prize went to a teen for his new approach to fighting flu.
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FossilsReviving dinosaurs
With the help of computers, researchers are getting a pretty good idea of how these ancient creatures moved, walked and ate.
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ComputingWheelies: Computers help electric cars turn
Electric-car designers think they’ve found a way to replace the differential. Computer-controlled wheels and a bevy of electronic sensors now help take the place of old-school gears.
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ComputingCool Jobs: Paid to dream
Some visionaries use science and engineering to see what our world could — and should — become
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ComputingThe data flood
Mountains of data drive advances in science, medicine and other fields. Here’s how they might affect you.
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ComputingExplainer: Data — waiting to become information
People want information. To get it, experts must sift through facts to find trends and other types of useful knowledge that has value.
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ComputingExplainer: Understanding the size of data
Data are beginning to accumulate in quantities of mammoth size.