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2024 Spotlight: Women Leading the Way in STEM

STEM Sport

There is a constant, necessary push to ensure the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workforce has diverse representation across gender, socioeconomic status, and race. This diversity in the workforce is what allows this workforce to continue thinking innovatively and in the best interest of the public as a whole.

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

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To ease the pressure on our struggling healthcare systems, scientists and medical professionals are looking to innovative new technologies such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). These deep-learning algorithms aim to improve the accuracy, efficiency and personalisation of healthcare based on smart home sensor data.

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

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The accuracy of machine learning provides another limitation, though this is a rapidly advancing field. Recent progress in deep learning provides substantial potential benefits for neural networks, computer vision and BCI techniques,” says CT. Download the article. Reference [link]. Link to the activity sheet. CT’s top tips.

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National Laboratory dispatches scientists to engage community

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STEM Ambassadors join the Office of STEM Education in inspiring lifelong interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Together they have developed 11 table-top displays that are linked to chemistry, data analytics, deep learning, the energy grid, cybersecurity, nuclear energy and the ocean environment.

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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

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Deepfake — manipulation of existing digital media (image, video and/or audio) – e.g., by swapping faces and changing voices – or creation of new media, typically using machine learning-based techniques such as deep learning. For technical degrees and careers, subjects like computer science and mathematics can be useful.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

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New engineering efforts at the Iowa State and Kansas State Universities are creating buildings adept at withstanding the effects of wind – not just through designing stronger structural systems, but by enabling the buildings to change their shape to adapt to changing wind conditions. ENGINEERING – AN OVERVIEW. THE TROUBLE WITH WIND.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

I should say at the outset that I’m going to focus on the big picture of what’s going on—and while I’ll mention some engineering details, I won’t get deeply into them. Then we might make a mathematical guess, like that perhaps we should use a straight line as a model: We could pick different straight lines.

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