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Cyber security for the AI age

Futurum

Burcu believes that it is vital for tomorrow’s cyber security professionals to understand not only the technical side of the challenge, but also human behaviour and social sciences. Pathway from school to cyber security • At school, Burcu recommends studying computer science, information technologies (IT), mathematics, and programming.

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STEM Statistics For 2023 (Education, Diversity, Careers)

The Maker Mom

For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. There is still room for improvement in computer and engineering occupations, but the overall trend is upward toward equality. Women have gained a substantial foothold within certain categories of STEM careers.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. How does economics combine mathematics and social science?

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Creating software that works for everyone

Futurum

A key concept of the Living Lab is that all participants, both developers and users of software, are fully involved and treated as equals throughout the software development process, ensuring the needs and opinions of the users and developers are always considered. “We I was first exposed to computers in my mid-teens.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

If we want to find a rule that “lives” for exactly 50 steps, we define “best” to be the one that minimizes a “loss function” equal to the distance from 50 of the number of steps a rule actually “lives”. So might AI change that?

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