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Creating software that works for everyone

Futurum

Through a variety of creative approaches, John’s team is developing inclusive software that considers the unique needs and characteristics of today’s diverse populations. Smart parking app software architecture and key software structures. Software challenges. An example of the HumaniSE Lab’s smart parking app in use. © IEEE 2021.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

I started studying architecture, but after two weeks, I realised I didn’t want to study buildings. I wanted to study something living, so I switched to an animal science program. One of the things I love most about science, and GIS and ecology in particular, is that it’s a creative process.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

Futurum

Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

But just by systematic enumeration the computer was able to find what seemed to me like a very “creative” result. Perhaps even the architecture of the network can change. Probably it’s because neural nets capture the architectural essence of actual brains. and something like an LLM could “creatively” come up with these names.

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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And I just have a deep appreciation of culture and history and architecture. So welcome, Winnie.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

People might say: “Computers can never show creativity or originality”. Inevitably there has to be some underlying model for how to do that following—typically in practice just defined by “what a neural net with a certain architecture will do”. What X is supposed to be has changed—and narrowed—over the years. So what’s left?

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

When Ed arrived at BU he found he was assigned to an office with a certain Gerard ‘t Hooft —who happens to be one of the more creative and productive theoretical physicists of the past half-century (and would win a Nobel Prize in 1999 for his efforts).