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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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Creating software that works for everyone

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Smart parking app software architecture and key software structures. Software engineering, or software development, is the branch of computer science that involves designing and developing software – the instructions and programs that enable computers to function. I was first exposed to computers in my mid-teens.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

Perhaps even the architecture of the network can change. Probably it’s because neural nets capture the architectural essence of actual brains. But what if we just set up neural nets with a given architecture, and pick their weights at random? Let’s say they’re neural nets that compute functions. So why does this work?

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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

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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. But I really was great at math.

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Can music be a tool for social transformation?

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“It may not change people’s social circumstances immediately,” he says, “but it can change the way they see themselves, which can bring increased well-being and potentially lead to positive changes.”. FIELD OF RESEARCH: Arts and Social Science. When I was younger, I loved medicine and architecture. MEET ANDREA.

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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. Just under 30 professors of computer science came down to IBM.