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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

Futurum

This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier. DATA SCIENCE – encompasses preparing data for analysis, including cleansing, aggregating and manipulating the data to perform advanced data analysis.

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Hard vs Soft Skills in STEM Education

STEM Sport

For instance, data analysis skills are crucial in identifying trends and making data-driven decisions, while mathematical reasoning is essential for solving intricate engineering problems. Hard skills directly apply in various STEM fields, from physics to computer science.

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Tynker Review

The Maker Mom

Tynker can serve as a complete computer science curriculum and includes all the tools and resources instructors need to succeed. Electives provide chances for advancement and certification after proficiency has been achieved. The target audience at Tynker is students, K-12, but they also offer their services to educators.

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Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence?

Futurum

This relies on the capacity for cognitive control — the ability to take an instruction (or internal intention) and use it to override a strongly learnt association or instinctive reflex to achieve a different goal (e.g., naming the colour or not worsening the inflammation causing the itch).

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Can we control the electrical activity in our brains?

Futurum

To do this, Adam taught the mouse to lick a waterspout to its left when he physically flicked its left whiskers and to lick a waterspout to its right when he physically flicked its right whiskers. If they can achieve this in mice, they will then turn their attention to the much greater challenge of applying this in humans. “It

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Creating software that works for everyone

Futurum

USER INTERFACE — the place where an end user interacts with a computer (e.g., They have different ages, languages, cultural backgrounds, personalities, and physical and mental characteristics. The field of software engineering is growing rapidly as computers are becoming integrated into all aspects of our lives.

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Modelling mines: how can a new 3D modelling platform make mining more sustainable and be part of the solution to climate change?

Futurum

They produce samples that reveal how an orebody is layered (its stratigraphy) and other aspects of its lithology and physical characteristics. Loop software combines these data to make predictions about the lithology and stratigraphy of an orebody. What are your proudest career achievements so far?

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