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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educators Technology

SpringerOpen SpringerOpen features research a wide variety of peer-reviewed research articles spanning different disciplines including social sciences, humanities, science, technology, medicine, economics, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, psychology, and many more.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

But that certainly doesn’t mean AI can’t importantly help the progress of science. At a very practical level, for example, LLMs provide a new kind of linguistic interface to the computational capabilities that we’ve spent so long building in the Wolfram Language. The system is doing a computation to determine its behavior.

Science 122
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What lessons can we learn from past pandemics?

Futurum

In light of the social inequalities highlighted by COVID-19, this knowledge has never been more important. The social sciences have a very important role to play in uncovering the causes and consequences of pandemics, past and present, and preparing us for pandemics of the future.

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STEM Statistics For 2023 (Education, Diversity, Careers)

The Maker Mom

Technological positions are leading the charge for growth, and people who choose to specialize in computer and mathematical degrees will stand to gain a unique advantage. Women in computer and mathematics careers only account for 25.2% For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce.

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The secret life of fonts

Futurum

The term font also refers to the piece of software that allows text to appear and function properly on a computer or smartphone screen. When desktop computers first entered mainstream use in the 90s, many people felt too intimidated to get onboard with the new technology. We can also use fonts to strengthen communities.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But at a personal and social level it was still always a lot of fun being around Ed and being exposed to his unique intense opportunistic energy—with its repeating themes but ever-changing directions. And there was one way in which Ed and I were very much aligned: both of our lives were deeply influenced by computers and computing.

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

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I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences. At school, I gravitated towards the social sciences. I was interested in geography, sociology, history, psychology and political science. Remember, there is always value in your personal background.