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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas. Emil is using mathematical tools to develop models of education and labour markets, which allow him to definitively state how efficiency can be maximised to improve education and labour market policies. “For What has Emil discovered?

Economics 111
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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

But what I want to do here is to discuss what amount to deeper questions about AI in science. Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics. What if all we ever want to know about are things that align with computational reducibility?

Science 122
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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. Nowadays we’d call it the trie (or prefix tree) data structure.

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Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective

Computing Education Research Blog

My argument is that computer science was originally invented to be taught to everyone, but not for economic advantage. I see the LSA effort and our Teaspoon languages connected to the original goals for computer science. In 1961, the MIT Sloan School held a symposium on “Computers and the World of the Future.”