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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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The Role of Mathematics in Education: What Professions You Can Get in the Future Have you ever found yourself pondering the real-world applications of those algebraic formulas or geometric theorems you spent hours trying to decipher in school? But what makes mathematics the lingua franca of computer science?

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

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TALK LIKE A … COMPUTER SCIENTIST. Artificial intelligence (AI) — computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence. Augmented reality (AR) — technology that superimposes computer-generated images onto a user’s view of the real world. Explore careers in computer science. •

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Bias, assumptions and emotions: why we think what we think

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© Gorodenkoff/shutterstock.com Thinking machines The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been heralded by some as the start of the age of ‘machines that think like us’, but Andy thinks we still have a way to go. According to Payscale, graduates of cognitive science degrees in Australia earn an average of AUS$129,000 per year.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

It’s a new paradigm—that actually seems to unlock things not only in fundamental physics, but also in the foundations of mathematics and computer science , and possibly in areas like biology and economics too. You know, I talked about building up the universe by repeatedly applying a computational rule.

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Can machine learning cope with the erratic and uncertain nature of the real world?

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However, in the last decade, the capabilities of artificial intelligence have been expanding at break-neck speed. ALGORITHM – a sequence of well-defined rules that allows computers to make calculations and solve problems. ALGORITHM – a sequence of well-defined rules that allows computers to make calculations and solve problems.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

But the computer let me discover just by systematic enumeration the 2-state, 3-color machine that in 2007 was proved universal (and, yes, it’s the simplest possible universal Turing machine). In 2000 I was interested in what the simplest possible axiom system for logic (Boolean algebra) might be.

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

Stephen Wolfram

. “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. It didn’t really come to light until he was at BBN, but while at Lincoln Lab Ed had made what would eventually become his first lasting contribution to computer science. Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra.