They were also discussed in 2015 in the Computing at School (CAS) framework and guide for teachers to enable teachers in the U.K. to incorporate computational thinking into their teaching work.10 CSTA/ISTE and CAS also provide pedagogical approaches to embed these capabilities across the curriculum in elementary and secondary classes. For example, CSTA/ISTE describes how the nine core computational thinking concepts and capabilities could be practiced in science classrooms by collecting and analyzing data from experiments (data collection and data analysis) and summarizing that data (data representation). Computational thinking is often mistakenly equated with using computer technology. Algorithms are central to both computer science and computational thinking.

The long AI winter is over. Instead of being a punchline, machine learning is one of the hottest skills in tech right now. Companies are scrambling to find enough programmers capable of coding for ML and deep learning. While no one programming language has won the dominant position, here are five of our top picks for ML libraries for Java. It comes as no surprise that Weka is our number one pick for the best Java machine learning library.

Drones are changing the ways in which scientists' investigate the footprints left behind by dinosaurs. Researchers in Australia have started using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to map prehistoric tracks in remote locations and are using the data to build 3D models of track sites. They're also using lidar, a laser scanning technology, and light aircraft to aid their research, which is detailed in a paper published at PeerJ. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.

Would your banking experience be more satisfying if you could gaze into the eyes of the bank's customer service chatbot and know it sees you frowning at your overdraft fees? Professor and entrepreneur Mark Sagar thinks so. Sagar won two Academy Awards for novel digital animation techniques for faces used on movies including Avatar and King Kong. He's now an associate professor at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, and CEO of a startup called Soul Machines, which is developing expressive digital faces for customer service chatbots. He says that will make them more useful and powerful, in the same way that meeting someone in person allows for richer communication than chatting via text.

A 4-year-old boy in the U.K. saved his mom's life after he used Siri to call an ambulance, telling emergency services that "she's closing her eyes and she's not breathing." The boy used his unconscious mother's iPhone to contact police, according to a statement released this week by London's Metropolitan Police. The 4-year-old unlocked the device by pressing her thumb to the phone and used Siri to call for help by dialing 999 for emergency services. Police also released part of the boy's heart-breaking call. "Can you go and get mummy?"

Imagine a robot stacking boxes in a warehouse when it suddenly sees that one box is in the wrong stack. It goes back and puts the container in the right place. How did the machine know it had made a mistake? The robot's human boss didn't punch any codes into a computer to have the robot correct its mistake. The boss didn't say a word.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Accenture's Second Quarter Fiscal 2017 Earnings Conference Call. During today's conference all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Instructions will be given at that time. I would now like to turn the conference over to Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations, Angie Park. Thank you, Shannon and thanks everyone for joining us today on our second quarter fiscal 2017 earnings announcement. As Shannon just mentioned, I'm Angie Park, Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations. With me today are Pierre Nanterme, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and David Rowland, our Chief Financial Officer. We hope you've had an opportunity to review the News Release we issued a short time ago. Let me quickly outline the agenda for today's call. Pierre will begin with an overview of our results. David will take you through the financial details, including the income statement and balance sheet for the second quarter. Pierre will then provide a brief update on our market positioning before David provides our business outlook for the third quarter and full fiscal year 2017. We will then take your questions before Pierre provides a wrap up at the end of the call. As a reminder, when we discuss revenues during today's call, we're talking about revenues before reimbursements or net revenues. Some of the matters we'll discuss on the call, including our business outlook are forward-looking and as such, are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those factors set forth in today's News Release and discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other SEC filings. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed on this call.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is simultaneously overhyped, misunderstood, and already hugely impactful, according to Pegasystems CTO Don Schuerman, who said many organisations were already successfully using the technology before it became an industry buzzword. Schuerman told ZDNet that he has been encouraging his clients to take a look at what pragmatic AI technologies they can employ to deliver real benefits to how they interact with customers, rather than succumbing to the hype. The best example is what the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is doing, he said. "They've got Pegasystems' product called the Customer Decision Hub, which uses predictive analytics and adaptive or self-learning analytics to figure out in real time what the best offer or service is, or recommendations are, to put in front of a customer either to improve their satisfaction rate and retention rate, for example," he explained. In implementing the technology, CBA has increased its branch sell rates by 13 percent, which Schuerman said is a significant impact to the business.

If all the would-be mothers are thinking of taking DHA supplements hoping to boost their child's IQ, they should keep the thought aside. In latest findings from a study published in Tuesday's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers found that providing DHA to a baby while it is in the mother's womb does not increase their IQ levels as compared to the babies who do not get the supplement. The study was originally conducted in 2010, 2011 and 2012 when researchers in Australia enlisted 2,399 pregnant women to participate in a clinical trial. The women were divided into two groups, one of which was given capsules that comprised of 800mg of DHA per day and the others were given a placebo that did not contain DHA but had vegetable oil in it. The results of the follow up IQ test -- the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence, Second Edition, was conducted to assess the benefits of DHA supplements on IQ levels of 7 year olds.

Researchers have some bad news for moms who used DHA supplements while they were pregnant in hopes of boosting their baby's brains: At age 7, kids whose mothers took DHA scored no higher on an IQ test than kids whose moms swallowed capsules that were DHA-free. The results are the latest findings from a study assessing the benefits -- if any -- of giving DHA to babies in utero. They appear in Tuesday's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. DHA, short for docosahexaenoic acid, is an omega-3 fatty acid that plays a key role in brain health. It's essential throughout our lives, and especially during infancy when the brain, eyes and nervous system are developing.