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Cyber security for the AI age

Futurum

Digitalisation is helping organisations to enhance communication and collaboration efforts, to innovate, and to stay competitive,” says Dr Burcu Bulgurcu, a cyber security researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University. Burcu studies cyber security, but not in the way that involves delving deep into computer code.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

How does economics combine mathematics and social science? On one hand, we build mathematical models, we conduct statistical analyses, and we run computer simulations,” says Emil. “On During my school years, I was always very interested in computers, video games and foreign languages.

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

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Scientific simulations — an advanced type of computational model that not only represents a real-world phenomenon, but aims to predict how the phenomenon might change under different conditions or parameters. Software — a set of instructions, scripts or programmes that are used to operate computers and perform specific tasks.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

ED Surge

By the end of the year, the Dhariwals had created a working prototype for CoCo Learn , which they describe as “a real-time, co-creative platform for young people.” One benefit of CoCo is its mild learning curve, says Tiffany Zides, a digital literacy and computer science teacher at Clarke Middle School in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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One of the things I love most about science, and GIS and ecology in particular, is that it’s a creative process. It requires the ability to ask questions and determine how to answer them, or how to depict or communicate them. There are always things in your community that can be assets.

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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 www.learnpython.org ).

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

And all I’ll be able to do here is give a snapshot of my current thinking—which will inevitably be incomplete—not least because, as I’ll discuss, trying to predict how history in an area like this will unfold is something that runs straight into an issue of basic science: the phenomenon of computational irreducibility.

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