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Experts discuss cutting-edge technology and research at annual … – University of Miami: News@theU

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

The Smart Cities MIAMI 2023 Conference, co-hosted by the University of Miami School of Architecture and the Institute for Data Science and Computing, partnered with the Climate Resilience Academy and Double C to discuss the impacts of climate change and its related stressors on South Florida.

Scientists, architects, and engineers, as well as leaders from government and business, came together last week at the University of Miami to discuss how they will use the influx of data coming from technology tools to better prepare local cities and towns for the impacts of climate change.

They were on the Coral Gables Campus for the sixth annual Smart Cities conference hosted by the University of Miamis School of Architecture and Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC). This year, Smart Cities also partnered with the Universitys Climate Resilience Academy, which launched last spring to foster new solutions to climate change.

The two-day conference featured lectures and panel discussions with experts in academia, government, and private industry who focus on climate resilience, primarily in the fields of architecture, engineering, and climate science. Most discussions explored how technology can help cities and counties improve their efficiency in the face of climate impacts, including a keynote address from Ben Kirtman, a climate scientist and professor of atmospheric science at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. In a panel about resilient ideas in technology, Yelena Yesha, a computer science professor, Knight chair in data science and artificial intelligence, and IDSCs innovation officer, spoke about the critical information that can be gleaned from data gathered in existing smart cities. Later Thursday, other panels highlighted climate innovations happening at Florida Power & Light, as well as in the City of Coral Gables, in Miami-Dade Countys transportation department, and in the Village of Key Biscayne.

We need real time information to prepare for all types of catastrophic events, said Yesha, who created the National Science Foundation Center for Accelerated Real-Time Analytics six years ago. Every crisis is an opportunity, and its our opportunity at the University of Miami to adapt to this environment and take it to the next level of computing.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava echoed Yesha. Levine Cava said that she is trying to seize upon the opportunities to improve South Floridas resilience, and to sustain its appeal to tourists by working to keep Biscayne Bay clean, supporting climate-focused innovation, and keeping an eye on equity, so that all residents can adapt to the warming temperatures and rising seas as safely as possible.

Particularly in Miami-Dade, the environment is our economy, she said. People are coming for the weather, the food, and our dynamism, but they are also coming for our national parks, for Biscayne Bay and our pristine environmentand thats why it is so critical that we continue to invest, address, maintain, and protect that.

In addition to a recent rapid population increase, Levine Cava and others mentioned the local technology boom. To harness the intellectual power of those flocking here, Levine Cava said, the county recently created a nonprofit called the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority to offer seed funding to businesses and academic institutions to scale up their ideas to improve the local environment.

We hope this nonprofit will work alongside government to solve these pressing problems with technological solutions, she said. Through this mechanism, we are looking for more places where we can partner with smart people, doing smart things to create smart solutions for our environment.

On Friday, Andrew Kudless, the Bill Kendall Memorial Endowed Professor at the University of Houston and the director of the construction robotics and fabrication technologies lab, delivered the closing keynote speech. His address, titled Five Points of Architecture and AI, focused on the early design phase and how technology is affecting that.

The five points Kudless discussed were: the challenging of bias; the cultivation of sensibility; the crisis of labor; the redefinition of authorship; and the freedom of incoherence. He explained how his personal approach to his design process has evolved as more and more artificial intelligent technologies become widely available.

As a designer, one of the things I learned from a series of projects is to give up control to these other forces, said Kudless, who works under the moniker, Matsys Design. I can create things that are beyond my inability. I find it more productive to think that I am the co-author with my tools.

Caterina Cafferata, a Miami native and second-year architecture graduate student, said Kudless keynote was eye-opening to her.

I feel like AI is something thats being introduced more and more in architecture and other areas of study, and I thought it was really interesting to hear from someone who has their own firm and is implementing it in their own work, said Cafferata.

Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp: The three … – Science Daily

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution touch sensing to accurately identify an object after grasping it just one time.

Many robotic hands pack all their powerful sensors into the fingertips, so an object must be in full contact with those fingertips to be identified, which can take multiple grasps. Other designs use lower-resolution sensors spread along the entire finger, but these don't capture as much detail, so multiple regrasps are often required.

Instead, the MIT team built a robotic finger with a rigid skeleton encased in a soft outer layer that has multiple high-resolution sensors incorporated under its transparent "skin." The sensors, which use a camera and LEDs to gather visual information about an object's shape, provide continuous sensing along the finger's entire length. Each finger captures rich data on many parts of an object simultaneously.

Using this design, the researchers built a three-fingered robotic hand that could identify objects after only one grasp, with about 85 percent accuracy. The rigid skeleton makes the fingers strong enough to pick up a heavy item, such as a drill, while the soft skin enables them to securely grasp a pliable item, like an empty plastic water bottle, without crushing it.

These soft-rigid fingers could be especially useful in an at-home-care robot designed to interact with an elderly individual. The robot could lift a heavy item off a shelf with the same hand it uses to help the individual take a bath.

"Having both soft and rigid elements is very important in any hand, but so is being able to perform great sensing over a really large area, especially if we want to consider doing very complicated manipulation tasks like what our own hands can do. Our goal with this work was to combine all the things that make our human hands so good into a robotic finger that can do tasks other robotic fingers can't currently do," says mechanical engineering graduate student Sandra Liu, co-lead author of a research paper on the robotic finger.

Liu wrote the paper with co-lead author and mechanical engineering undergraduate student Leonardo Zamora Yaez and her advisor, Edward Adelson, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The research will be presented at the RoboSoft Conference.

A human-inspired finger

The robotic finger is comprised of a rigid, 3D-printed endoskeleton that is placed in a mold and encased in a transparent silicone "skin." Making the finger in a mold removes the need for fasteners or adhesives to hold the silicone in place.

The researchers designed the mold with a curved shape so the robotic fingers are slightly curved when at rest, just like human fingers.

"Silicone will wrinkle when it bends, so we thought that if we have the finger molded in this curved position, when you curve it more to grasp an object, you won't induce as many wrinkles. Wrinkles are good in some ways -- they can help the finger slide along surfaces very smoothly and easily -- but we didn't want wrinkles that we couldn't control," Liu says.

The endoskeleton of each finger contains a pair of detailed touch sensors, known as GelSight sensors, embedded into the top and middle sections, underneath the transparent skin. The sensors are placed so the range of the cameras overlaps slightly, giving the finger continuous sensing along its entire length.

The GelSight sensor, based on technology pioneered in the Adelson group, is composed of a camera and three colored LEDs. When the finger grasps an object, the camera captures images as the colored LEDs illuminate the skin from the inside.

Using the illuminated contours that appear in the soft skin, an algorithm performs backward calculations to map the contours on the grasped object's surface. The researchers trained a machine-learning model to identify objects using raw camera image data.

As they fine-tuned the finger fabrication process, the researchers ran into several obstacles.

First, silicone has a tendency to peel off surfaces over time. Liu and her collaborators found they could limit this peeling by adding small curves along the hinges between the joints in the endoskeleton.

When the finger bends, the bending of the silicone is distributed along the tiny curves, which reduces stress and prevents peeling. They also added creases to the joints so the silicone is not squashed as much when the finger bends.

While troubleshooting their design, the researchers realized wrinkles in the silicone prevent the skin from ripping.

"The usefulness of the wrinkles was an accidental discovery on our part. When we synthesized them on the surface, we found that they actually made the finger more durable than we expected," she says.

Getting a good grasp

Once they had perfected the design, the researchers built a robotic hand using two fingers arranged in a Y pattern with a third finger as an opposing thumb. The hand captures six images when it grasps an object (two from each finger) and sends those images to a machine-learning algorithm which uses them as inputs to identify the object.

Because the hand has tactile sensing covering all of its fingers, it can gather rich tactile data from a single grasp.

"Although we have a lot of sensing in the fingers, maybe adding a palm with sensing would help it make tactile distinctions even better," Liu says.

In the future, the researchers also want to improve the hardware to reduce the amount of wear and tear in the silicone over time and add more actuation to the thumb so it can perform a wider variety of tasks.

This work was supported, in part, by the Toyota Research Institute, the Office of Naval Research, and the SINTEF BIFROST project.

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The next big thing in Big Tech career path is an AI-based ‘bilingual’ job skillset – CNBC

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

An attendee interacts with the AI-powered Microsoft Bing search engine and Edge browser during an event at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Microsoft unveiled new versions of its Bing internet-search engine and Edge browser powered by the newest technology from ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

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As a venture capitalist, Jim Breyer has invested in many breakthrough technology ideas in recent decades, names we all know and interact with on a daily basis like Meta and Spotify. But the biggest one of all may be next, he says, through the combination of artificial intelligence and branches of science involved in medicine.

Since 2017, Breyer says his No. 1 task as a venture investor has focused on finding the best disease and medical data from leading research hospitals such as Memorial Sloan Kettering, MD Anderson, and Johns Hopkins highly proprietary, significant data to license into startups Breyer Capital is backing.

"AI and medicine is perhaps the most attractive new investment opportunity I've ever seen," Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, said at last week's CNBC Healthy Returns virtual summit.

Breyer says he is not alone among tech leaders holding this view, citing a fireside chat he recently conducted with Michael Dell, during which the PC pioneer agreed, and private conversations he has had with tech CEOs. "Over the last 12 months, mega-cap companies, based on direct meetings with Satya [Nadella, Microsoft CEO] and Tim Cook [Apple CEO] and others are not just doubling, tripling down on health care and medicine, it's 10x, 50x," Breyer said.

But the opportunity won't translate into achievement without a new form of collaboration between the classic big tech talent and the medical field.

"Bringing together the brilliant 32 or 35-year-old machine learning people out of Amazon or Google or Microsoft and having them work closely with Nobel-winning doctors and great hospitals and great medical specialists is really challenging, but that's where breakthrough investment returns will be in both public and private companies," Breyer said.

Dr. Sanjiv Patel, president &CEO of Relay Therapeutics, which works at the intersection of new experimental techniques for drug discovery and computational science, says unlike the "false dawns" over the past few decades, it is for real this time. "It's no longer science fiction, we have three in clinical trials," Patel said.

But he cautioned that change will face many obstacles and an uncertain timeline. "There is a lot of hype. People say you push a button in the metaverse and get a life-changing medicine, and I just don't think were there," Patel said. "We are looking at incremental change over time ... and there are some significant challenges to overcome."

Some of those challenges will be case-specific as AI attempts to transform healthcare across the entire value chain; some will relate to the general problem of high quality, clean data sets "that's not easy to get," he says; and a third will be the bridging of the scientific talents cited by Breyer.

"The availability of bilingual scientists is going to be a rate limitation for us," Patel said, defining this as scientists well versed in computation research and one of the core sciences important to medicine physics, biology or chemistry. "That's a big one," he said.

All knowledge industry workers should assume they will need AI technology and remain open-minded about its use, says Dr. Vineeta Agarwala, Andreessen Horowitzgeneral partner. One of her portfolio companies, Insitro, was founded by Stanford AI researcher Daphne Koller (Koller co-founder edtech company Coursera). She cited an example Koller has been using of workers 30 years ago who said they didn't need personal computing technology when it was becoming more mainstream. "It would have been crazy for the knowledge industries to say 'We're okay. We're doing okay the way we are,'" Agarwala said at CNBC Healthy Returns.

Her VC is "on the prowl," she says, for founders who say they want to use AI to augment what they can do, so they can do more. "That's how we look at it, the companies and the researchers and the entrepreneurs," Agarwala said. "Embracing AI should look a little like those that embraced computers a few decades ago ... it will be inconceivable in the future to not be embracing this."

Unlike the evolution of the PC, which took three decades, she expects in the case of AI this will be "obvious" within five to ten years.

As a doctor, Agarwala says the amount of medical information she needs to stay on top of is already at "fever pitch," from medical literature to clinical trials and learnings from large sets of patient data. And she noted Microsoft already has integrated ChatGPT with its medical dictation software for doctors. These kinds of AI bridges will help with immediate workflow issues which contribute to physician burnout. "Just in the workflow of seeing patients and interfacing with the payer ecosystem, there may be a way for large language models to contribute to a reduction in burnout," she said.

After that, comes the "real biology," she says.

Already, AI is being applied to make better decisions for medicinal chemistry teams to pick better molecules or predict in advance toxicity of certain molecules, and over the next five to 10 years, expect talent that chooses to use AI to augment their role to have this "super power," Agarwala said.

"It's not can AI do what a human expert is doing but relentless focus on where AI can give me insight no human could have had," she said. "There is lots of exciting big talent opportunities coming from big tech and big cap pharma," she said. "Both need to come together to create companies."

Cloud services run by big tech companies including Microsoft and Amazon (Amazon Web Services) will be beneficiaries in the immediate years ahead, but for workers already at these companies which have made steep job cuts over the past year, including some job cuts reaching nascent health science efforts Breyer is focused on the mid-career talent that see where AI and medicine are going together.

"The single biggest challenge, day to day, week to week, for me is to bring the interdisciplinary individuals and teams together ... biotech, computation, specialized chemistry ... and have them all working together," Breyer said.

"The talent I see are the 30 to 35-year-old alumni of these companies, Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet, that want to go into this field on a mission, either through personal family history or view of the opportunity, this is where they want to spend the rest of their careers," Breyer said. "And rarely have I seen the 10-year alums of these mega caps saying this."

As Breyer goes out to speak with the next generation of professionals, students at schools including UT Austin, Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia, his message is clear: "This is the single biggest opportunity I've seen. However, make sure you are studying linear algebra and computation and chemistry and biology, because all of the fundamental opportunities are about these technologies that sit at the intersection of computation and science."

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Science fair brings brightest students from across the region – Rome Sentinel

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

UTICA Utica University held its 44th annual Regional Science Fair on Saturday, April 1, bringing together some of the brightest students from the Mohawk Valley.

Students from Clinton, Poland, Remsen, Rome, Utica and Whitesboro school districts, along with the Utica Academy of Science Charter School had their science projects on display in the Donahue Concourse, underneath the Frank E. Gannett Memorial Library.

Since 1978, the science fair has taken place with a mission to bolster math and science programs across the Mohawk Valley and to encourage students to pursue their academic interests in STEM education.

Student projects were categorized by grades 7 and 8 in the junior level and grades 9 through 12 in the senior level. Student projects were also categorized under three topics: physical science, natural science, and math, engineering, and computer science.

Volunteer judges from local colleges, the technology and research industries, as well as medical professionals and civilian and military staff members, examined every project on display prior to allowing the public into the exhibit area and to learn about the projects from the students.

"The future is very bright with all of you at the helm of science and STEM," Jessica Thomas said to the students participating in this year's science fair. Thomas, a professor of biology at Utica University, serves as the director of the regional science fair.

First through fourth-place winners took home cash awards ranging from $25 to $100 and a certificate, medal, and ribbon recognizing their accomplishments. The Grand Champion - Junior Level winner was awarded a $500 tuition-remitted scholarship to Utica University for one year, along with a trophy and certificate. The runner-up Grand Champion - Senior Level was awarded a half-tuition scholarship to Utica University for one year, along with a trophy and certificate. The Grand Champion - Senior Level was awarded a half-tuition scholarship to Utica University for two years, as well as a trophy and certificate.

As the winner of the university's Grand Champion - Senior Level prize, Angelina Le will also be invited to compete in the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Dallas, Texas, next month. Utica University will be sponsoring her and a chaperone to participate in the event. Should Le not be able to participate, Dennis van Hoesel, the runner-up, will be invited to compete.

"I hope that all of this is one moment in time in your young science careers that will encourage you to continue to think critically and reflectively about the world around you," Todd Pfannestiel, provost and vice president at Utica University, remarked to the students. "It's your efforts displayed here today that self-empower you to act responsibly for a better community throughout the rest of your lives."

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University of Idaho: Preparing students for the 21st century – Study International News

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

At the University of Idaho (U of I), passion sparks real impact. As an institution, the university pioneered a research-driven and innovative approach to delivering lessons in engineering, computer science and cybersecurity. Today, students at U of I are spearheading breakthroughs in their respective fields.

Christopher Bitikofers innovation aptly represents the universitys engineering prowess. The mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate worked with a team of students and faculty members to develop a complex robotics exoskeleton used in therapeutic medicine.

The exoskeleton mimics a human arms movement and abilities to help stroke survivors regain mobility. It focuses on two areas of motion the elbow and forearm. Currently, Providence St. Lukes Rehabilitation Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, is testing this exoskeleton with its patients.

Bitikofers visions came to be at the Assistive Robotics Lab, a state-of-the-art, hands-on learning space where engineering students develop robotic devices that evaluate neurological impairment, gather data to refine therapeutic medicine, and exponentially improve treatment for the greater good.

Using my engineering degree to make positive change, this is one of the most effective ways for me to spend my time, said the mechanical engineering PhD graduate. Working alongside physical therapists and hospital staff and developing these devices, were helping people improve their independence.

Bitikofers work proves that opportunities abound for anyone who pursues engineering at U of I, and undergraduates are no exception. At its core, the B.S. Mechanical Engineering teaches students to apply their maths, science, and engineering knowledge to research, design, and test devices or processes.

The program is one of many in the College of Engineering that unlocks exceptional learning, training, and research experiences. For 130 years, the division has provided just that and more through its departments: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering & Industrial Management.

With over a century of experience, the college and its departments remain relevant in the modern age by adapting its offerings to tackle new global problems. For example, U of Is College of Engineering recently launched Idahos first undergraduate degree program in cybersecurity.

With the B.S. Cybersecurity, aspiring cybersecurity professionals gain a better understanding of how to deal with cybersecurity threats through simulation. The Real-Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) connected to a local control hub in the Integrated Research and Innovation Center can simulate any modern high-voltage power grid configuration. With this, students can mimic control operations and simulate what a cyberattack might look like.

Undergraduate students can pursue Biological Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity and more. Source: University of Idaho

Sydney Petrehn, a computer science major, worked as a Premier College Intern for the Air Force Civilian Service alongside senior leaders across the United States and Europe.

It was awesome, she enthuses. The University of Idaho has so many opportunities for students to explore and really immerse themselves in the field. I guarantee you can find something that will help you feel confident and empowered in your ability and understanding of cybersecurity-related topics at U of Idaho. The opportunities are endless.

The College of Engineering guarantees experiential learning through its interdisciplinary Senior Capstone Design Program nationally recognized by the Academy of Engineering for infusing real-world experiences into engineering education. Students work on creative projects. Industry partners, private industry, or departments at the university sponsor these projects. It culminates with the Engineering Design EXPO, a longest-running student engineering innovation showcase in the Pacific Northwest.

Cooperative Education (co-op) opportunities are available as well for those keen on alternating semesters of academic study with terms of full-time paid employment in positions that boost professional and personal development. In the process, students can earn up to $20,000 US Dollars in the process.

Thats not all. Students can benefit from one-on-one mentorship and personalised learning experiences with a prolific faculty. Picture engaging with University Distinguished Professor Dr. Jim Alves-Foss, who is one of two members leading the cybersecurity program, has published over 125 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, primarily in the field of cybersecurity.

Likewise, University Distinguished Professor Dr. Brian Johnson is a registered professional engineer in Wisconsin and Idaho. His research interest focuses on power system protection, power quality, superconductivity applications in transmission and distribution, energy storage systems, real-time simulation of traffic systems, and intelligent transportation systems.

Its clear why U of I is the No. 1 Best Value Public University in the West, according to U.S. News and World Report. They are also the only public university in Idaho to be ranked best value by Forbes, Money, and The Princeton Review.

So what are you waiting for? If you are ready to define your future at the College of Engineering, click here to learn more today.Follow the University of Idahos College of Engineering on Facebook and Instagram

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Opinion | Colleges Should Be More Than Just Vocational Schools – The New York Times

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

Never mind that neither politicians nor students seem to have a particularly good idea of which college majors will actually prepare young people for the work force. History majors had a lower unemployment rate than economics, business management or communications majors, and their salaries barely lag behind in those fields, according to a recent study. Art history majors do just fine, too, with strong projected job growth in the next decade. And despite the sneers, those with bachelors degrees in philosophy have an average salary around $76,000, according to PayScale. But this is a grim and narrow view of the purpose of higher education, merely as a tool to train workers as replaceable cogs in Americas economic machine, to generate raw material for its largest companies.

Higher education, with broad study in the liberal arts, is meant to create not merely good workers but also good citizens. Citizens with knowledge of their history and culture are better equipped to lead and participate in a democratic society; learning in many different forms of knowledge teaches the humility necessary to accept other points of view in a pluralistic and increasingly globalized society.

The university as we know it emerged in the Middle Ages, founded around the study of rhetoric, grammar, logic, astronomy, mathematics, geometry and music or what the Romans called artes liberales, meaning the arts of free people. The first three disciplines evolved into the modern humanities and arts; the others evolved into natural and social sciences.

It was Cold War-era American nationalism that reframed this course of study, once available only to the wealthy few, as something essential for American success. In 1947 a presidential commission bemoaned an education system in which a student may have gained technical or professional training while being only incidentally, if at all, made ready for performing his duties as a man, a parent and a citizen. The report recommended funding to give as many Americans as possible the sort of education that would give to the student the values, attitudes, knowledge and skills that will equip him to live rightly and well in a free society, which is to say the liberal arts as traditionally understood. The funding followed.

The report is true today, too. There is still value in our health professionals knowing something about literature, our financial professionals knowing something about history and our political leaders knowing something about ethics. But as that funding is dismantled, the American higher education system is returning to what it once was: liberal arts finishing schools for the wealthy and privileged and vocational training for the rest.

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The End of Programming Is Nigh – The New Stack

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

Is the end of programming nigh?

If you ask Matt Welsh, hed say yes. As Richard McManuswrote on The New Stack, Welsh is a former professor of computer science at Harvard who spoke at a virtual meetup of theChicago Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), explaining his thesis that ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot represent the beginning of the end of programming.

Welsh joined us on The New Stack Makers to discuss his perspectives about the end of programming and answer questions about the future of computer science, distributed computing, and more.

Welsh is now the founder of Fixie.ai, a platform they are building to let companies develop applications on top of large language models to extend with different capabilities.

For 40 to 50 years, programming language design has had one goal. Make it easier to write programs, Welsh said in the interview.

Still, programming languages are complex, Welsh said. And no amount of work is going to make it simple.

It doesnt seem likely to me that any amount of work on improving type systems or syntax or any of that debugging is going to suddenly crack that nut and just make programming suddenly easy, Welsh said. Weve been at it for a while. Its not improving. So this is where I think theres going to have to be a kind of a quantum shift to not programming anymore as the way to talk to computers and instruct them.

Its comparable to when, for example, only a few people could read books.

Well, if computing becomes, lets say, democratized, because now you dont need to be this like wizard in a tower, who understands how to write Rust code, to instruct a machine, thats going to completely change that dynamic, Welsh said. Anyone will be able to do it. And I actually think thats a really good thing. You know, theres all kinds of people in the world and places in the world that could benefit from computing that simply do not have access to it, because the skill level, the skill set required is just way too high.

As for computer science, it has always been about humans taking a problem and turning it into instructions for a machine, Welsh said. Thats the definition of computer science. Its the art of science, mapping problems onto what machines can do. Now that models are getting larger, its no longer an x86 CPU running the machine instruction.

So now your computational core is no longer an x86 CPU running machine instructions, Welsh said. Its an AI model that is solving problems. And, you know, operating and working in the ways that like a human might, in a lot of ways.

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Fifteen selected to be Public Engagement Faculty Fellows | The … – The University Record

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

The Office of the Vice President for Research has selected 15 faculty members from across the University of Michigan for a fellowship program that enhances and integrates public engagement in their research and scholarship for broad societal impact.

The university launched its Public Engagement Faculty Fellowship program in 2020 to help faculty bolster their knowledge and skills, and also reflect on how public engagement aligns with their scholarly identity.

The effort includes creating an interdisciplinary, intergenerational learning community, as well as encouraging recognition of and experimentation with all forms of public engagement.

This years cohort of fellows will be able to consider new and innovative ways of translating their work into public impacts, said Ellen Parakkat, program manager for the Public Engagement and Research Impacts team, which transitioned to OVPR from the Center for Academic Innovation in 2022.

The interdisciplinary community of scholars working toward the same goal of public engagement in a wide variety of creative and unexpected ways allows unique projects to take shape.

This years faculty cohort represents nine schools and colleges across the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses.

The 2023 mentor fellows are:

The 2023 fellows are:

The first phase of the fellowship includes a five-week studio experience that involves community building, exploring and learning. Mentor fellows and fellows will have opportunities during this phase to engage in skill development, reflection, exploration, networking and project planning.

Following successful completion of Phase One, eligible faculty fellows can then move into Phase Two, which is primarily focused on project planning and support.

While designing plans for a publicly engaged project, fellows are eligible for up to $10,000 in funding and in-kind support from OVPR and other university partners so they can pursue engagement projects.

Public engagement is integral to OVPRs mission to serve the world through research, said Nick Wigginton, associate vice president for research strategic initiatives.

The support and community created by this fellowship program will empower our faculty to better translate their research into positive impacts on the everyday lives of our local and global communities.

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8 Toms River Intermediate Students Headed To Regional Science Fair – Patch

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

TOMS RIVER, NJ Eight Toms River Regional intermediate school students will be competing at the Delaware Valley Science Fair this week, after they were honored at the Jersey Shore Science Fair in March.

A total of 15 students received awards at the Jersey Shore Science Fair, held at Stockton University on March 18, presenting research in a variety of STEM programs.

The Delaware Valley Science Fair, at Drexel University, begins Tuesday.

Here are the students honored from each Toms River intermediate school:

From Toms River Intermediate East, two students advanced to the Delaware Valley fair and three students were honored.

Alexandra Kanterezhi-Gatto took first place in Botany. Owen Soheily took first place in Chemistry. He also received a special award from the American Chemical Society. Alexandra and Owen will be competing at Delaware Valley this week.

In addition, Bradyen Macom received an honorable mention in Physics.

Congratulations to all three students, said Intermediate East teacher and science fair coordinator Gina Phillips. We are very proud of your accomplishments!

For Intermediate North, five students were honored, with two advancing to the Delaware Valley fair.

Aaryan Nagaria placed first in Computer Science, and Dugan Tunney took second place in Physics. They will be competing at Delaware Valley this week.

Receiving honorable mentions were Emma Mastriano, in Botany; Samantha Rodrick, in Chemistry, and Krisha Goswami, also in Chemistry.

These students did an outstanding job, said Intermediate North science teacher Kristin Renkin.

From Intermediate South, four students earned invitations to the Delaware Valley fair.

Nolan Judge and Bryce Judge placed first in the Team category, while Frankie Clarici was second in Environmental Science and Brayden Murphy took second in Physics to advance.

Also honored were Zachary Wistreich, who received a third-place ribbon in Chemistry, while honorable mentions went to Samantha Hughes, in Botany, and Guilanna Raso, in Microbiology.

All of our students did an outstanding job, said Intermediate South teacher Jessica Kurts. We are proud of all of them!

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Human and AI-bot write book together – Warp News

April 4, 2023 | Author: admin

We are going to write a book together. "We" are Mathias Sundin, editor-in-chief of Warp News, and WALL-Y, Warp News' AI writer.

The book will be about how to use ChatGPT to write better: Become a centaur - how to use ChatGPT to write and think better.

Centaur chess is a chess variant where a human player and a computer-based chess engine collaborate as a team. Combining human intuition and creativity with the computational power that the chess engine offers to make the best possible moves.

When a chess computer plays against a human, the computer wins. When a chess computer plays against a human who uses a chess computer for assistance, the human-computer team wins.

A similar concept can be applied to writing with the help of ChatGPT. In this "centaur writing," a human author and ChatGPT work together.

The human author comes up with the initial ideas and creative direction, and together they develop a structure and generate text together.

By combining the unique strengths of human creativity and AI-generated text, centaur writing aims to write both better and faster than either human or AI alone could do.

Every year, a company or an organization produces massive amounts of text. Medium and large companies create stacks of text miles high, if all this text were printed out and stacked on top of each other.

Being able to write faster and better is, therefore, something that can increase productivity, improve quality, and save a lot of money.

WALL-Y is an AI-bot, created in ChatGPT, that writes news for Warp News.

The book will also cover how to use ChatGPT to think better, faster, and more creatively. If AI tools are used correctly, it is like installing an update to your brain, from 1.0 to 2.0.

The book will be released in the spring of 2023.

/Mathias Sundin & WALL-Y Of course, we have also written this text together.

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