“It took 10 months to get it done, but the Granite State is now officially a Geeky State,” writes Concord Monitor science reporter David Brooks. “The latest New Hampshire Historical Highway Marker, celebrating the creation of the BASIC computer language at Dartmouth in 1964, has officially been installed. Everybody who has ever typed a GOTO command can feel proud…” Last August,…
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‘Apple Wants To Kill the Ad Industry. It’s Forcing Developers To Help.’
“As a consumer, the idea of Apple sign-in is genuinely an exciting one…” writes developer/tech journalist Owen Williams at Char.gd. “As a person in digital marketing, as well as a coder and startup founder, the feature terrifies me… I don’t have a choice. Apple plans to force developers using third-party signin features to add its signin along any competing ones, rather…
Penn’s Dr. Susan Davidson on Women in STEM and New Trajectories Into Computer Science
Over the past decade, computer science has gone from a topic for specialists to an essential tool for professionals in nearly every field. Dr. Susan Davidson of the University of Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of this sea change, including co-founding one of the first research centers for bioinformatics in the country. In this […]
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Mathematicians Edge Closer to Solving a ‘Million Dollar’ Math Problem
A new paper could end up being a big step toward solving one of the oldest unanswered puzzles in mathematics: Is the Riemann hypothesis correct? Source: https://www.livescience.com/65577-riemann-hypothesis-big-step-math.html
Why Are Some Wealthy Kids Getting Extra Time To Finish Their SAT Tests?
Students from wealthy high schools are more than twice as likely to qualify for extra time to finish their SAT or ACT college entrance tests than students from poor schools — and in some cases, they’re getting 50% more time. An anonymous reader quotes CBS News: About 4.2 percent of students at wealthy high schools qualified for a 504 designation, a…
EPA Plans To Get Thousands of Pollution Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule because it would result in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution, New York Times reported this week, citing five people with knowledge of the agency’s plans. From the report:…
Carbon Dioxide Soars to Record-Breaking Levels Not Seen in 800,000 Years
“If you do the math, well, it’s pretty sobering” Source: https://www.livescience.com/65469-highest-carbon-dioxide-levels.html
Carbon Dioxide Soars to Record-Breaking Levels Not Seen in at Least 800,000 Years
“If you do the math, well, it’s pretty sobering” Source: https://www.livescience.com/65469-highest-carbon-dioxide-levels.html
Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Japanese Chalk
Here’s the latest from Great Big Story: “Once upon a time, not long ago, the math world fell in love … with a chalk. But not just any chalk! This was Hagoromo: a Japanese brand so smooth, so perfect that some wondered if it was made from the tears of angels. Pencils down, please, as […]
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Why AI Will Never Replace Teachers
Today, on Teacher Appreciation Day, I want to firmly drive home one very important point: AI will never replace our amazing teachers – and I’m saying that as the CEO of the online learning platform edX and in the business of developing education technology. It’s common to think of technologies like AI as things that can easily be used to replace…