Congress should go further, however, and increase financial and technical assistance to centers that train computer scientists in advanced techniques.
A large corpus of images is needed to train computer vision algorithms to distinguish between cats, dogs, and houseplants.
The police in central China have arrested three people and seized money and equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in a crackdown on the country's biggest commercial operation to train computer hackers, state media reported Sunday and Monday.
Lawmakers passed Republican amendments on Thursday, including one that would guarantee that the federal government would not dictate curriculum standards, as well as bipartisan amendments allowing federal money to be used to train computer science teachers.
Some of the new workers will come from I.B.M.'s close relationships with programs that train computer researchers at the State University of New York and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The neat thing about this sort of analysis is that you can use this information to train computer algorithms, called classifiers, to learn the associations between patterns of activity and real stimuli.
