Remove Biology Remove Communications Remove Computer Science Remove Natural Sciences
article thumbnail

From Scientist to Shareholder: Why do it?

Scientix

It is therefore vital that students see the benefits – for themselves and their societies – of learning national sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics. As John Doerr, successful venture capitalist and early investor in Google, recently phrased it: “Sustainability is the next computer science”.

article thumbnail

Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

a line) Quantify — to measure the number or amount of something To what extent can art be used to communicate specific emotions? We explored how people use associations with colours and line properties to communicate emotions,” says Dr Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychology. “In

Biology 89
educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

As a result, a new discipline, known as research computing, has emerged to apply computers, not just software, to research including to help scientists capture images, construct models, which are turned into simulations, and analyse results. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science.

article thumbnail

Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

Could it really be that this was the secret that nature had been using all along to make complexity? It wasn’t long before I realized something fundamental: that this was at its core a computational phenomenon. But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field.

article thumbnail

The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

The global structures of metamathematics , economics , linguistics and evolutionary biology seem likely to provide examples—and in each case we can expect that at the core is the ruliad, with its unique structure. Communicating across Rulial Space. But there are certain similar human-based features that still seem to apply.

Physics 121
article thumbnail

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

But while this might be a convenient setup for biology, it’s not at all clear that it’s even close to the best way to achieve the functionality we need. Of course, that’s not much different from how we might describe our brains as having been produced through the process of biological evolution.)

Computer 145