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How can smart contact lenses monitor and treat eye conditions?

Futurum

At Purdue University , Dr Chi Hwan Lee is using his skills as a biomedical engineer to develop smart contact lenses that can both monitor the condition and deliver drugs to combat it. TALK LIKE A BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER. FIELD OF RESEARCH : Biomedical Engineering. ABOUT BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING. DR CHI HWAN LEE Leslie A.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

Then for each function (or other construct in the language) there are pages that explain the function, with extensive examples. And we’ve been steadily doing the engineering to let AIs call on Wolfram Language as easily as possible. So did that mean we were “finished” with calculus? And now that’s what the AIs can use as well.

Computer 102
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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ??????

Stephen Wolfram

we have a new symbolic construct, Threaded , that effectively allows you to easily generalize listability. Why is such a construct needed? Now “characters” could be 16-bit constructs, with nearly 65536 possible “glyphs” allocated across different languages and uses (including some mathematical symbols that we introduced).

Calculus 114
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy.

Energy 88
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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. Sometimes they have been based on constructing programs to reproduce behavior. Sometimes the models have been purely empirical (“Look, there’s a power law!”).

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

Stephen Wolfram

It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). He was going for what he saw as the big prize: using them to “construct the universe”. And the person he saw there was their “vice president of engineering psychology”—a certain J.

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Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics

Stephen Wolfram

And if we treat these as equivalent and merge them we now get: (The question of “state equivalence” is a subtle one, that ultimately depends on the operation of the observer, and how the observer constructs their perception of what’s going on. It’s a new kind of fundamentally multiway construct.

Physics 108