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Lei Wang, Yousr Dhaouadi Take Awards in Three Minute Thesis … – Syracuse University News

Winners of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition have been announced by the Graduate School. 3MT is a research communication competition that challenges graduate and doctoral students to deliver a compelling oration on the nature, significance and interests of their dissertation or masters thesis research in three minutes or less.

Lei Wang

The 2023 Syracuse University Three-Minute Thesis champion is Lei Wang, a doctoral student in the instructional design, development and evaluation program in the School of Education. She presented Decision-Making Matters: A Learning Resources Tool to Prompt Deeper Learning at the 3MT finals on March 3 in Bird Library.

Wang spoke about an innovative tool she developed to address a significant gap in the field of instructional design. She paired the tool with a systematic and comprehensive study evaluating the features of learning resources that prompt deeper learning. The term deeper learning goes beyond rote memorization of facts. Through thorough and in-depth understanding of content, it helps students transfer and apply knowledge to tackle new problems from multiple perspectives.

The competition provided Wang the opportunity to share her research with a wider audience while building confidence in her public-speaking abilities, she says. As an international student from China, winning this has been an incredible achievement. The recognition has given me a newfound confidence in my abilities and strengthened my resolve to continue pursuing excellence in my field.

Wangs grand prize is a 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 computer. She also received a one-year membership in the American Educational Research Association. She will represent Syracuse University in the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools 3MT competition in April.

Yousr Dhaouadi

Attendees at the 3MT finals selected as peoples choice winner Yousr Dhaouadi, a chemical engineering doctoral student in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, who discussed Controlling Bacterial Stress Tolerance with Light. Her research seeks to understand bacterial persister cells that reside within biofilms. Persister cells are linked to resilience of chronic infections against antibiotics and to the rise of antimicrobial resistance.

Dhaouadi says that being selected for the peoples choice award is an incredible honor for me. Communicating research on drug-tolerant bacteria can be quite challenging. Condensing intricate scientific concepts and technical terms into a three-minute summary requires contemplating the overarching objective of our research. I am delighted that the message I conveyed resonated with the audience. I am grateful for the recognition and am motivated to continue my research to develop effective tools to help combat the global rise in drug tolerance and resistance.Her prize is a ReMarkable 2 tablet.

Also participating in the competition were:

Glenn Wright, executive director of career and professional development at the Graduate School, moderated the competition. Judges included Amanda Brown, associate professor of languages, literatures and linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences; Adam Cucchiara, doctoral student in public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School and the 2022 3MT champion; and Aaron Mohammed, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, with a joint appointment in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

The Three Minute Thesis competition was founded at the University of Queensland to celebrate graduate student research. The first competition was held in 2008. It grew in popularity and today takes place at more than 900 universities across more than 85 countries worldwide and in both virtual and in-person formats.

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During Associate Professor of Physics Adel Poynors time at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, there was only one womens restroom in the entire three-story physics building. To make matters worse, urinals took up most of the room.The differences in how Im treated as a woman in STEM is constant like the noise electricity makes, Poynor said. You dont notice it until its gone or you think about it. Im constantly having a little bit of a headache.In the United States, science, technology, engineering and math are fields that have historically been pursued by men. As a part of Womens History Month, STEM professors at Allegheny College shared their experiences navigating these male-dominated fields and gave advice to young women hoping to make their mark in these fields.Ive lost track of the number of times Ive had to file complaints or go with students when they file complaints against their professors and classmates for misogyny, Poyner said. I forget how many times Ive been called a b- in class and on assignments. I forget how many times I have had my poster thats about celebrate women in physics vandalized. Ive had people turn in assignments with boobs drawn on them.Similar treatment toward women in STEM is all too common. Both as students and professors, women in STEM fields often face discrimination in the classroom.For Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science Janyl Jumadinova, the discrimination began early on, back in high school, with her introduction to computer science in a programming class. In this course, her instructor would work with the boys and tell the girls to copy what they were doing. While she enjoyed the subject, this experience put Jumandinova off of the idea of computer science for a few years.Jumadinova began college with the thought of pursuing a career in marketing, not computer science. However, she was once again drawn to programming, finally finding a setting to engage with her passion.Despite being in this new environment, professors continued to be an issue for Jumadinova. She described classes as hit or miss depending on the instructor.I went to take one course called data structures and the instructor was just so horrible that the first week he was telling blatantly sexist jokes, Jumadinova said. It was just very inappropriate and me and the one other girl that was in the class couldnt sit through that.Much like Jumadinova, science was not always the plan for Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Biology Lauren French. Going into college, French had no idea what she wanted to do. Then, she took a biopsychology course.I was hooked right from there, French said.During graduate school, French worked with a male adviser in neuroscience who was known to be inclusive and even helped in founding the Women of Neuroscience Group as a part of the Society for Neuroscience Association. While French admired her male adviser, she could not help but notice the lack of female students and professors, only recalling one female professor who had passed away before French attended and another who was not offered a tenure track. In order to survive in her male-dominated field, French began to adopt the habits of several men around her.I realized if you want your voice to be heard for whatever reason whether its a personality or a gender thing you have to be prepared to dig in, even if youve been accustomed to taking your turn, French said. That sometimes you have to fight for that position.Although Poyner noted that the educational treatment of female-identifying students has improved in recent years, the electric buzz of misogyny still has not gone away.Theres just been sort of constant low-level assumptions that Im not good enough, Poyner said. When I first started, there was a professor who would say you couldnt be a physicist and a woman because when you wanted to have kids, you wouldnt be able to. I had two kids and I was an experimental physicist. He also said that women werent generally smart enough to be physicists. Now, instead of blatantly saying things like this, people just think it.As advice to students and especially those who identify as women in STEM, Jumadinova and French spoke about the importance of building confidence in ones learning ability and skill set. Speaking about ones thoughts is important for learning and cooperating, especially in college.Take up space, Poyner said. Take up space in your classes and in your study groups and whatnot. Its not going to make you friends, but it will at least help you go through. If you take up space, youre a lot harder to ignore. And thats what makes a big difference because for a lot of STEM, to do well, youre going to need to work with other people.

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Professor in Computer Science job with ROYAL HOLLOWAY … – Times Higher Education

Department of Computer Science

Location: EghamSalary: 69,582 per annum pro rata - including London AllowanceThis is the expected starting salary for this post however appointment at a higher point may be made for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience relevant to the role.Post Type: Part TimeClosing Date: 23.59 hours BST on Monday 03 April 2023Reference: 0323-130

Part-Time (0.2FTE), Permanent

The School of Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences (EPMS) at Royal Holloway, University of London comprises the Departments of Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Information Security, Mathematics and Physics. We are pleased to announce that the School is embarking on an ambitious period of expansion in data science, artificial intelligence, computing, information security, digital engineering and physical science and, as part of this expansion, applications are invited for a Professorial post (0.2FTE) within the Department of Computer Science.

The Department of Computer Science has a record of outstanding research and was ranked 17th overall among UK computer science departments in the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021, Times Higher Education ranking). We have very strong research groups in the areas of Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, Algorithms and Complexity, and Programming Languages and Systems. There are also strong collaborations with the Department of Computer Science (which also is also currently recruiting for three new positions).

The Department of Computer Science is committed to delivering excellent teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and consistently achieves excellent results in graduate prospects metrics (92% graduates in employment or further study in 15 months, Guardian 2023). Our software engineering teaching has been hailed as a best practice example by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.

We are seeking to appoint a Professor in Computer Science (0.2FTE) in the field of Quantum Computing. The post-holder will contribute strongly to leadership in this area and bring together existing strengths across the departments of Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics. The post-holder would bring the ability to develop new research collaborations between Royal Holloway and other institutions, including other universities, national research institutions and industry. Applicants should have a record of high quality publications and attracting significant research funding. Applicants will have a track record demonstrated excellence, or will show the potential for excellence, in delivering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and the supervision of both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The post holder will be expected to contribute strongly to the development of research impact, and the successful applicant will have, or have the potential to have, a strong track record in this area.

The Department plays an active part in inter-disciplinary activities and benefits from a number of University led initiatives including the Transformative Digital Technologies, Security and Society, Advanced Quantum Science and Technologies and Living Sustainably research catalysts and the School will be leading the establishment of a new Centre of Applied AI. In addition to the opportunities with the Department of Computer Science, the post holder(s) will have the opportunity to play a full role in the growth of Applied AI within the School, and across the University more generally, with the opportunity to collaborate in development of new MSc programmes in this area.

The Department of Computer Science is committed to reducing gender inequality, as recognised by an Athena SWAN Bronze award, and strongly welcomes applications from groups under-represented in academic posts.

Royal Holloway recognises the importance of helping its employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements. We are happy to consider a request for flexible working for this post including part time, job share or compressed working hours.

Royal Holloway offers a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:

The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the College is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London. There will be also the opportunity to develop and deliver postgraduate programmes at our Central London campus, located in Bloomsbury.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact the Head of Department, Professor Carlos Matos Carlos.Matos@rhul.ac.uk

For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk

Please quote the reference: 0323-130

Closing Date: 23:59, 3 April 2023

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Please note that it will not be possible for the College to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for successful candidates as the pro-rata salary will not meet the minimum threshold set by UK Visas and Immigration. Successful candidates will therefore need to be eligible to work in the UK or have limited leave to remain in the UK and associated right to work for the duration of their employment with the College, in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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Futurist, author and computer scientist predicts human immortality … – Euro Weekly News

The American computer science expert and MIT graduate has a history of making correct estimations which, in their time, may have sounded quite unrealistic.

In 2010, Kurzweil reviewed his own predictions made since 1990 and found of 147 that hed made, a total of 115 were entirely correct, reports IFL Science.

A further 12 were essentially correct, and only three were entirely wrong.

Kurzweils incorrect predictions, include self-driving cars being implemented worldwide by 2009 was out by a number of years.

He said in 1990 that within 10 years a computer could beat the worlds best chess player. That happened.

He now says AI will reach human levels of intelligence by 2029 and a year later immortality will follow.

He toldFuturism: 2029 is the consistent date I have predicted for when an AI will pass a valid Turing test and therefore achieve human levels of intelligence.

Speaking to computer scientist Lex Fridman on a podcast, Kurzweil said humans will be able to advance human life expectancy by more than a year every year and I think we can get there by the end of this decade.

He also believes we will be kept healthy by devices that travel in our bloodstream and could eventually begin uploading our consciousness to the cloud.

Kurzwell says such advancements are not necessarily frightening and will make humans godlike.

Were going to be funnier. Were going to be sexier. Were going to be better at expressing loving sentiment, hetold NOEMAin 2015.

Reactions to Kurzwells predictions in the Mirror are sceptical: So where will all these eternals live. How will they be fed? Utter BS

And another: Immortality, no thank you, especially now my beloved father and mother have passed, dad in 85 and mother in 2021, I personally would prefer natural death over electronic life so no, I will pass on artificial living.

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We’ve witnessed campus cancellation campaigns. Elder Holland … – Deseret News

In the spring of 1844, the Latter-day Saints received a curious visitor to Nauvoo, Illinois.

Josiah Quincy, future mayor of Boston and the son of the president of Harvard, had traveled to Nauvoo with his cousin, Charles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, to tour the Mississippi River. During their stay in Nauvoo, the travelers met with Joseph Smith and toured the city. Some years later, Quincy published his observations of Smith and the Latter-day Saints for a literary magazine in New York. Among the many anecdotes he captured, one has particular salience today.

Quincy describes surveying a beautiful grove with Joseph Smith where there were seats and a platform for speaking. Smith explained that the Latter-day Saints held services in the grove at which point a Methodist minister traveling with the group said, I suppose none but Mormon preachers are allowed in Nauvoo.Joseph Smiths response was perhaps surprising: On the contrary, he replied, I shall be very happy to have you address my people next Sunday, and I will ensure you a most attentive congregation.

What! do you mean that I may say anything I please, and that you will make no reply?, the minister queried, according to Quincys account.

You may certainly say anything you please; but I must reserve the right of adding a word or two, if I judge best. I promise to speak of you in the most respectful manner.

What strikes us about this story is Joseph Smiths willingness to allow for the expression of differing opinions even potentially hostile opinions in an environment of respect.

In the past week a public campaign has gathered momentum, seeking to encourage Southern Utah University to rescind its invitation to Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to provide the keynote address for the Commencement ceremony in conjunction with the institutions 125th anniversary year. And just last month, two hours before the concert was scheduled to begin, Pensacola Christian College cancelled a performance of The Kings Singers because of concerns with the sexual identity of one or more of the groups members.

These kinds of cancellations and petitions have increased markedly in the last decade against professors and other speakers on campus, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and its work to compile episodes where somebody tries to block or prevent a speaker from being featured on a college or university campus. Their Disinvitation Database also confirms a pressure to cancel coming from both the left and the right, with 28% of commencement disinvitations in the last two decades coming from pressure on the right and 63% from pressure on the left (with another 9% from unspecified sources).

Among other examples, intimidation from the political right led to cancellations against Michael Moore, Jeremiah Wright, Richard Dawkins, and Chelsea Manning while intimidation from the political left led to cancellations of Ann Coulter, Ben Carson, Ben Shapiro and Ivanka Trump.

Weve both had our own experiences with pressure campaigns including a recent university cancellation. New York Times JournalistThomas Edsall quotesJonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at Brookings, explaining some of the larger forces behind these growing instances of public outrage among students. Among other things, he notes: Universities are consumeristic these days and very image-conscious, and so they have trouble withstanding pressure from their customers, e.g., activist students.

Rauch, a respected writer who identifies as gay, also adds that activists have figured out that they can have disproportionate influence by claiming to be physically endangered and psychologically traumatized by speech that offends them. In the same article, Randall Kennedy, a law professor at Harvard recounts how activists have learned to deploy skillfully the language of hurt as in I dont care what the speakers intentions were, what the speaker said has hurt my feelings and ought therefore to be prohibited.

But intention really does matter. In the case of Elder Holland, his full remarks make clear that his intent was to call for more robust efforts to defend his faith tradition and teachings not to attack a particular community, and certainly not to justify physical violence.And as many know well, Elder Holland has gone out of his way over the years to cultivate friendship and build bridges across differences. Even so, some heard what he said as unsupportive of people who identify as LGBTQ. When meaningful differences in perspective like this exist, those disagreements should be an invitation for more dialogue and discussion, not less.

We know how it feels to express opinions, sometimes even controversial opinions, and be met with some version of cancellation or deplatforming, rather than further opportunities for dialogue and exchange. Tom recently had an invitation withdrawn to address a university audience. And organizations have been pressured to rescind invitations for Jacob to speak.

Identity disagreements can be especially challenging. As one professor shared with us recently, How do we deal with the fact that many people in our campus communities think that particular (usually conservative) viewpoints shouldnt be expressed because another person feels they are a threat to their identity?

Yet as weve learned in our own friendship, its possible to disagree about identity and other important questions, and still love, respect, admire and support each other. And we unitedly push back on the idea that disagreements about identity, marriage or politics means we cannot still hear each other with respect. That is simply not the case even if growing numbers insist it must be.

Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy went on to encourage leaders on campus to become much more skeptical and tough-minded when encountering the language of hurt so as to avoid incentivizing those who deploy the specters of bigotry, privilege and trauma to further diminish vital academic, intellectual and aesthetic freedoms. Its also worth noting that online petitions are open to widely disparate communities far removed from the local institution in question becoming a measure, perhaps, of a particular groups enthusiasm rather than broadly representative of those with an immediate stake in the question.

The good news is that in more than half of documented instances of public pressure campaigns to convince a university to cancel a speaker or event, universities stood firm and refused to cancel.Analyst Zachary Greenberg told us that once a school takes a strong stand against censorship and for free speech, it may deter attempts to persuade that school to disinvite speakers. Conversely, university acquiescence to disinvitation demands encourages more demands.

In our view, the point of a university education is not simply the essential engagement with conflicting ideas, but also regularly practicing the life skills necessary for individual growth at any age, in any setting.

Being willing to assume a speakers good intentions, and even good-heartedness, does not require a listener to agree with a given speaker.But it does require that we willingly expose ourselves to the discomfort of hearing our conclusions challenged.And it requires that we extend to those with whom we disagree the grace we ourselves hope to find.

This group of SUU students, much like Elder Holland expressed to BYU employees, rightly sees convocation as a visible demonstration of the core values of an educational institution.Yet by making space for a diversity of perspectives, we are walking the talk of inclusion and belonging.

We hope all institutions conservative or liberal, religious or secular will be more courageous, willing to trust the ability of those in the audience to weed out what is not valuable to them.We hope that SUU and its entire student body, faculty and staff will show the courage many other institutions lack and will listen with respect, if not agreement, to the insights of wise and wonderful people like a methodist minister in an open-air grove in 1844 or a Latter-day Saint apostle in a Southern Utah University auditorium in 2023.

Tom Christofferson is the author of That We May Be One and A Better Heart. Jacob Hess is the author of Youre Not as Crazy as I Thought (But Youre Still Wrong) with Phil Neisser and with Carrie Skarda, Kyle Anderson and Ty Mansfield, hes the author of The Power of Stillness: Mindful Living for Latter-day Saints.

Utah First Lady Abby Cox, from left, Sister Patricia Holland, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a member of the Hollands security team stand on stage as Jeffrey Holland is awarded the Rural Legacy Leader award at the One Utah Summit 2021 at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah on Tuesday, October 5, 2021.

Nick Adams, for the Deseret News

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Direct Elections Funding Bill Heard in House Committee – League of Minnesota Cities

A proposal to establish direct funding to cities and counties for elections administration was heard in the House Elections Finance and Policy Committee.

The House Elections Finance and Policy Committee on March 17 considered HF 2765 (Rep. Nathan Coulter, DFL-Bloomington), a bill to provide ongoing direct funding to cities and counties for elections administration.

The bill establishes a voting operations, technology, and election resource (VOTER) account within the Office of the Secretary of State. Local governments would be required to report use of the funds annually by Dec. 31 to the Office of the Secretary of State.

The funds would be distributed by July 20 each year to counties, with 20% of the total balance going to counties in equal amounts and 80% allocated to each county in proportion to its share of registered voters.

Counties and their respective local governments would have to agree on a distribution plan for allocating funds from the account, similar to the process used for funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

If the county and a local unit of government do not agree on a distribution plan, the county would be required to allocate the funds to that unit of government as follows:

These funds would be required to be segregated into an election funding account.

A local unit of government would be able to use the funds for the following purposes, provided that they are directly related to elections administration:

The bill received support from county representatives, city representatives, and Secretary of State Steve Simon. New Brighton City Clerk Terri Spangrud testified in support of the bill on behalf of the League.

View a video of the March 17 House Elections Committee hearing.

The bills companion, SF 1548(Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope), was heard in the Senate Elections Committeeon March 7. SF 1548 differs from the House bill by establishing an ongoing reimbursement and grant program for certain elections expenses, rather than providing direct funding.

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BSC Leads Multi-Partner Consortium in Innovative Data Mining … – HPCwire

March 22, 2023 The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is the coordinator of the EU-funded EXTRACT project which began on January 1, 2023, bringing together a 10-partner consortium from Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Israel and Switzerland.

This three-year project will work to provide a distributed data-mining software platform for extreme data across the compute continuum. It pursues an innovative and holistic approach to data mining workflows across edge, cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) environments and will be validated through two use cases that require extreme data: crisis management in the City of Venice and an astrophysics use case.

Data has become one of the most valuable assets worldwide due to its ubiquity in the thriving technologies of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). While these technologies provide vast data for a variety of applications, deriving value from this raw data requires the ability to extract relevant and secure knowledge that can be used to form advanced decision-making strategies.

The BSC researchers will play a critical role in the project by developing data-driven deployment and scheduling methods required to select the most appropriate computing resource. They will also develop a distributed monitoring architecture capable of securely observing the performance, security, and energy consumption of data-mining workflow execution. Moreover, the BSC will explore various strategies, including AI-based orchestration for deploying and scheduling workflows, to ensure that the various goals are optimized holistically while respecting the constraints imposed by extreme data characteristics.

Current practices and technologies are only able to cope with some data characteristics independently and uniformly. EXTRACT will create a complete edge-cloud-HPC continuum by integrating multiple computing technologies into a unified secure compute-continuum. It will do so by considering the entire data lifecycle, including the collection of data across sources, the mining of accurate and useful knowledge and its consumption.

The EXTRACT platform will be validated in two real-world use-cases, each having distinct extreme data and computing requirements.

BSC researchers will develop the data-driven deployment and scheduling methods needed to select the most appropriate computing resource. This task will address the hereto unaddressed challenge of orchestration on the edge-cloud-HPC continuum. It will include ensuring that orchestration technologies are explicitly aware of extreme data characteristics and workflow description.

The BSC will also develop a distributed monitoring architecture that will be capable of securely observing the performance, security, and energy consumption of data-mining workflow execution. To ensure that various goals are optimised holistically while respecting constraints imposed by extreme data characteristics, BSC will explore various strategies including AI-based orchestration for deploying and scheduling workflows.

Eduardo Quiones, established researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and EXTRACT coordinator, is confident that:By seamlessly integrating major open-source AI and Big Data frameworks, EXTRACT technology will contribute to providing the technological solutions Europe needs to effectively deal with extreme data. It will go beyond facilitating the wider and more effective use of data to reinforce Europes ability to manage urgent societal challenges.

About EXTRACT

The EXTRACT project (A distributed data-mining software platform for extreme data across the compute continuum) is funded under Horizon Research and Innovation Action number 101093110. The project began on 1 January 2023 and will end 31 December 2025. The consortium, formed of 10 partners, is coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Consortium members include: Ikerlan (Spain), Universitat Rovira I Virgili (Spain), Observatoire de Paris (France), the Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique (France), Universit Paris Cit (France), Logos Ricerca e Innovazione (Italy), City of Venice (Italy), Binare (Finland), Mathema srl (Italy), IBM Israel (Israel), sixsq (Switzerland).

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