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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

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Dr Narges Armanfard, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University and Mila Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, has established iSMART Lab to develop new healthcare technologies. The AI revolution “AI has the potential to revolutionise our lives in numerous positive ways,” says Narges.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

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I experienced collaborations between biology, engineering and social sciences with a playful attitude. For my PhD, I switched to information processing in biological systems, and have been fascinated by how the brain interprets sensory information ever since. My PhD in computational and neural systems was a formational time.

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

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For example, as transportation networks play a key role in moving goods and materials from suppliers to customers, Zach hopes to integrate models of global transportation networks into his models of global supply chain networks. This will be a quantum leap forward in terms of realism,” 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?

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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. One area of research computing that is in high demand is research software engineering.

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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. There had been precursors of steam engines even in antiquity, but it was only in 1712 that the first practical steam engine was developed. Lazare Carnot died in 1823.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

And in this case, the origin of the way we sample the universe has deep roots in the nature of our consciousness, and our fundamental way of experiencing the universe, with our particular sensory apparatus, place in the universe, etc. What about the appearance of numbers in the history of science and engineering?