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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

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Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Benchling Scores $14.5M to Grow Online Lab Notebook for Bio-Researchers

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New immunotherapy approaches to cancer treatment, and the CRISPR technology for editing genetic material in cells, are among the most sophisticated research strategies scientists are using in their quest to defeat disease. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

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Megan Palmer, a fellow and biosecurity researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, hoped DARPA’s program would encourage a more holistic approach to biosafety in a growing field where many people, such as software engineers, might not have thought much about biosafety and security risks.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

I myself have been involved with computational thinking for nearly 40 years now—building technology for it, applying it in lots of places, studying its basic science—and trying to understand its principles. And I’m trying to do everything I can with our technology to support the effort. The Wolfram Language is a programming language.

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How Will Apple Innovate Beyond the iPhone 7? With Next-Gen Siri

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Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter. What made the original iPhone so groundbreaking was a remarkable convergence of hardware and software innovation. But my bet is that the seeming slowdown in the iPhone iteration cycle isn’t primarily a hardware issue. Let me explain.