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Best Academic Research Tools for Researchers and Educators

Educators Technology

While my academic background is in the social sciences and more specifically educational studies, I believe that regardless of your discipline, social sciences or natural sciences, the research process, structurally speaking, is more or less the same. What you need is access to academic search engines.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

Published: While art and science are often separated in academia, there is a lot to be learnt by considering them together. I was fascinated by the physical processes that underlie information processing, so studied physics and computer science initially. I want to tackle seemingly fuzzy problems with rigorous science.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

Futurum

The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says. Each time we make changes, we test what is and isn’t successful, and use that data to help improve designs until we can successfully engineer microbes to produce the desired product,” he says.

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

Futurum

Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential. TALK LIKE A RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science. billion lightyears.

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

Stephen Wolfram

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. How is it made?

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

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. But by the mid-1600s the idea was emerging that there could be more explicit and mechanical explanations for phenomena in the natural world.

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

Stephen Wolfram

So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this go? My goal here is to explore some of the science, technology—and philosophy—of what we can expect from AIs. The results (which ultimately rely on all sorts of specific engineering) are remarkably “human like”. What will AIs be able to do? And how will we humans fit in?

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