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What Are Raymond James Financial Stocks Prospects Over The Next One Month? – Forbes

September 15, 2021 | Author: admin

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Raymond James Financial stock (NYSE: RJF) lost 1.9% in the last five trading days and currently trades close to $136 per share. Raymond James Financial is a financial holding company that provides services such as investment management, sales & trading, corporate and retail banking, etc. Its stock has gained almost 43% YTD, as compared to the 19% rise in S&P500.

The company recently approved a three-for-two stock split in the form of a 50% stock dividend. It means that its shareholders will receive one additional share of RJF for every two shares of RJF owned by them. Further, shareholders on record as of 9th September will be eligible for the process, which is to be completed on 21st September. Additionally, the firm has decreased the dividend amount per share from $0.39 to $0.26 per share to compensate for the increased number of shares.

But will RJF stock continue its downward trajectory over the coming weeks, or is a rise in the stock more likely? According to the Trefis Machine Learning Engine, which identifies trends in a companys stock price data for the last ten years, returns for RJF stock average close to 3.1% in the next one-month (21 trading days) period after experiencing a 1.9% drop over the last one week (five trading days) period. Also, there is a 69% chance that the stock will give positive returns over the next one-month period.

But how would these numbers change if you are interested in holding RJF stock for a shorter or a longer time period? You can test the answer and many other combinations on the Trefis Machine Learning to test Raymond James Financial stock chances of a rise after a fall and vice versa. You can test the chance of recovery over different time intervals of a quarter, month, or even just one day!

MACHINE LEARNING ENGINE try it yourself:

IF RJF stock moved by -5% over five trading days, THEN over the next 21 trading days, RJF stock moves an average of 2.7 percent with a 68.3% probability of positive returns.

Average Return

Some Fun Scenarios, FAQs & Making Sense of Raymond James Financial Stock Movements:

Question 1: Is the average return for Raymond James Financial Stock higher after a drop?

Answer:

Consider two situations,

Case 1: Raymond James Financial stock drops by -5% or more in a week

Case 2: Raymond James Financial stock rises by 5% or more in a week

Is the average return for Raymond James Financial stock higher over the subsequent month after Case 1 or Case 2?

RJF stock fares better after Case 1, with an average return of 2.7% over the next month (21 trading days) under Case 1 (where the stock has just suffered a 5% loss over the previous week), versus, an average return of 1.3% for Case 2.

In comparison, the S&P 500 has an average return of 3.1% over the next 21 trading days under Case 1, and an average return of just 0.5% for Case 2 as detailed in our dashboard that details the average return for the S&P 500 after a fall or rise.

Try the Trefis machine learning engine above to see for yourself how Raymond James Financial stock is likely to behave after any specific gain or loss over a period.

Question 2: Does patience pay?

Answer:

If you buy and hold Raymond James Financial stock, the expectation is over time the near-term fluctuations will cancel out, and the long-term positive trend will favor you - at least if the company is otherwise strong.

Overall, according to data and Trefis machine learning engines calculations, patience absolutely pays for most stocks!

For RJF stock, the returns over the next N days after a -5% change over the last five trading days is detailed in the table below, along with the returns for the S&P500:

Average Return

Question 3: What about the average return after a rise if you wait for a while?

Answer:

The average return after a rise is understandably lower than after a fall as detailed in the previous question. Interestingly, though, if a stock has gained over the last few days, you would do better to avoid short-term bets for most stocks.

RJFs returns over the next N days after a 5% change over the last five trading days is detailed in the table below, along with the returns for the S&P500:

Average Return

Its pretty powerful to test the trend for yourself for Raymond James Financial stock by changing the inputs in the charts above.

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Muslim students express fear for their safety on campus following Islamophobic online reactions to flag removal – Student Life

September 15, 2021 | Author: admin

Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus. (Photo by Curran Neenan | Student Life)

Editors note: This story discusses Islamophobia and the toll of 9/11. We have listed resources for people directly affected by these topics at the end of this piece.

Muslim students have expressed fear for their safety and concern about the rise of Islamophobic rhetoric from strangers on social media and from their peers following the removal of 9/11 commemorative flags Saturday.

After a video of Student Union Vice President of Finance senior Fadel Alkilani removing the flags made national headlines, several individuals circulated his personal information on social media and posted threats directed at both him and his family. The events also spurred an onslaught of Islamophobic messaging on social media targeting Alkilani and Muslim individuals.

A Fox News article about the event accumulated more than 10,000 comments in a single day. Many of the comments included or encouraged physical threats to Alkilani and his family, and several published their personal information. Other articles from national and international news outlets similarly accrued violent threats and doxxing.

I know myself and other Muslims on campus are genuinely afraid of being visibly or presumed to be Muslim on campus, where before we would be just shouting about going to prayers and just being very open about it, junior Mahtab Chaudhry said Sunday. I feel like at least in the weeks to come, people will be a lot more worried and think twice about that kind of expression.

Chancellor Andrew Martins email to the Washington University community Sunday evening did not mention the Islamophobic language being used by students and community members nor the extensive threats being directed at Alkilani.

A coalition of students and student groups including Students for Black and Palestinian Liberation, WashU Students for Abolition and the WashU Middle Eastern and North African Association, released a statement hours later, saying that they were hurt by Martins failure to condemn Islamophobia and the way his email erased the varied experiences of numerous populations of students (Black, Brown and Muslim) on this campus.

The statement pointed to some specific fears among students on campus.

Many Muslim and Brown students, particularly those who are visibly identifiable either by their hijab, turbans, etc., do not feel safe on campus and are hesitant to attend classes tomorrow, the statement said. Many Muslim students have received threatening emails targeting them and Islam from individuals unaffiliated with the University.

The two Sept. 11 posts from the @wustl_official Instagram account both received hundreds of comments within 24 hours. The majority came from individuals not affiliated with the University and attacked Alkilani and his actions, often using racist, Islamophobic and violent language and tropes.

Just being here at WashU, I never really thought Id be as concerned for my safety as I am right now and for my Muslim peers, just because seeing all those comments under [WashUs] post made me anxious, said a student who requested anonymity out of concern for her safety. To see that people hold those views still I dont really know what to think of it.

I was on YikYak [Saturday] and some of the things people said on there were really disturbing, said a senior who asked to remain anonymous out of fear for her safety. There was literally a post that said Islamophobia should be allowed on 9/11. Someone in our community truly believes that, she said, noting that the anonymous posts shown on YikYak are from within a five-mile radius of the user.

In addition to the comments on the Universitys social media, unknown individuals created multiple Instagram accounts impersonating Alkilani, featuring posts with captions such as Let me know how you feel about me in the comments! that sparked Islamophobic sentiments from hundreds of individuals.

On Twitter, especially after Alkilanis name was tweeted by prominent right-wing media figures like Andy Ngo and Ann Coulter, thousands more users piled on with xenophobia and threats directed at both Alkilani and at Muslim individuals generally.

Although several University students urged their peers to report the social media accounts posting Alkilanis personal information, social media platforms are notorious for slow, haphazard and uncertain enforcement of rules against doxxing and other hate speech often spurred by conservative claims of censorship when hateful or harmful content is removed.

In the aftermath of 9/11, Islamophobic behaviors and messaging rose 1,617% from 2000 to 2001, according to the Pew Research Center. The Trump presidency sparked another surge, Pew found, as 75% of Muslim individuals surveyed in 2017 reported significant discrimination and a majority said that it was getting worse.

9/11 always is a scary day of the year just because there is increased Islamophobia, said a student who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for their safety. 9/11 is just a reminder every year that Islamophobia still exists. It doesnt leave us.

Going forward, Chaudhry called for increased peer support for Muslim students.

A lot more people need to be vocal and actually stand up, because right now its just a lot of things happening on social media and not a lot of support, at least from what Im seeing, she said. Right now all you see is the Islamophobia and the hate and a student being called a terrorist, and [others] calling for Fadel to be sent back to his country and theres nothing else there, which is just disheartening to see.

The Muslim Wellness Foundations Community Trauma Toolkit offers resources and advice for coping with grief, trauma and microaggressions.

Naseeha is a helpline for Muslim youth to receive immediate, anonymous and confidential support by phone call or text to 1-866-627-3342 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. CST every day.

Tuesdays Children is an organization that supports communities recovering from large-scale tragedies and mass violence, including those grieving 9/11 victims and responders.

Goldberg: Partisan squabbling after 9/11 was a preview of the present – Standard-Examiner

September 15, 2021 | Author: admin

I got back to the U.S. from my honeymoon on Sept. 10, 2001. My wife went straight home to Washington, D.C, to start her new job at the Justice Department. I went to Washington state, where wed gotten married, to retrieve our dog Cosmo, whom wed left with family. I was in a hotel room in Pendleton, Oregon, when I saw the first reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center. I used something called AOL Instant Messenger to tell my co-workers to turn on the TV.

Because my wife and I had dated for a long time, I used to say that the war on terror changed our daily lives more than getting married did. As weird as that sounds now, in some ways it was true. The Washington we returned to had changed. My wifes new job as the attorney generals chief speechwriter at the dawn of the war on terror was a bracing new chapter for us both. And politics, particularly conservative politics my beat, for want of a better term transformed almost overnight.

I was editor of National Review Online back then, and even though Id been traveling when the controversy broke out, it fell to me to fire Ann Coulter from National Review (which largely amounted to dropping her column). Outraged by airports clogged by security lines, she wrote: It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

While this beating of the war drum was too much even for us, the rhythm of the next decade often echoed this tune. A flood of books both serious and silly poured forth about the war on terror, the imminent arrival of a new cold war or world war, and the generational struggle with Islam and Islamists that would define our future and our childrens future.

Two decades later, it seems like the past is a foreign country, and not just for the 1 in 4 Americans who werent even alive on 9/11.

We always see yesterday through the prism of today. As historian R.G. Collingwood put it, Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way. For instance, after 9/11, the dates that defined the past shriveled. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the end of the Cold War in 1989 shrank, while 1932 (the founding of Saudi Arabia) and 1979 (the founding of revolutionary Iran) seemed larger in the rearview.

Similarly, we can look back on the excesses of the war on terror and see our reflection there. Many on the left greeted the crisis more as an opportunity to find fault with America than as an opportunity to unify against a common foe. Before the bogeyman of systemic racism, there was Islamophobia and the vaunted anti-Muslim backlash. While prejudice against Muslims certainly and regrettably increased, its worth noting that hate crimes against American Jews outnumbered those against Muslims throughout the war on terror. Im not sure thats worth celebrating, but the fact that America is arguably the safest place in the world to be a Jew certainly is.

Regardless, from the liberal hysteria about the PATRIOT Acts supposedly tyrannical assault on liberties to the rights wild fantasies that America was surrendering to Sharia law, the terror war now looks like our current culture war by other means.

In the early years, fretting over the threat to free speech posed by the war on terror was a left-wing obsession. Ward Churchill, who called the victims of 9/11 Little Eichmanns, was a martyr to free expression. Dissent, we were told, was the highest form of patriotism. When Barack Obama became president, dissent lost its patriotic glow for the liberals who wanted a hecklers veto against those who would provoke jihadists with irresponsible expression such as cartoons or films mocking Muhammad or asinine own-the-libs stunts like Koran-burning. And of course, Donald Trump did, for a moment, put some teeth into the anti-Muslim backlash when he tried to ban all Muslims from entering the country.

Wherever you come down on the specific controversies, its hard not be filled with regret and a little embarrassment over the solipsistic tendency of American politics to turn every issue into a stand-in for mutual partisan animosity. Even more depressing is the realization that the last 20 years have left us less prepared for the next 9/11 in the ways that matter most. Of course, the next 9/11 will look different, but the reaction probably wont.

Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief of The Dispatch and the host of The Remnant podcast. His Twitter handle is @JonahDispatch.

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Jonah Goldberg: Partisan squabbling after 9/11 was a preview of the present – PostBulletin.com

September 15, 2021 | Author: admin

I got back to the U.S. from my honeymoon on Sept. 10, 2001. My wife went straight home to Washington, D.C, to start her new job at the Justice Department. I went to Washington state, where we'd gotten married, to retrieve our dog Cosmo, whom we'd left with family. I was in a hotel room in Pendleton, Oregon, when I saw the first reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center. I used something called AOL Instant Messenger to tell my co-workers to turn on the TV.

Because my wife and I had dated for a long time, I used to say that the war on terror changed our daily lives more than getting married did. As weird as that sounds now, in some ways it was true. The Washington we returned to had changed. My wife's new job as the attorney general's chief speechwriter at the dawn of the war on terror was a bracing new chapter for us both. And politics, particularly conservative politics -- my beat, for want of a better term -- transformed almost overnight.

I was editor of National Review Online back then, and even though I'd been traveling when the controversy broke out, it fell to me to "fire" Ann Coulter from National Review (which largely amounted to dropping her column). Outraged by airports clogged by security lines, she wrote: "It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

While this beating of the war drum was too much even for us, the rhythm of the next decade often echoed this tune. A flood of books both serious and silly poured forth about the war on terror, the imminent arrival of a new cold war or world war, and the "generational" struggle with Islam and Islamists that would define our future and our children's future.

Two decades later, it seems like the past is a foreign country, and not just for the 1 in 4 Americans who weren't even alive on 9/11.

We always see yesterday through the prism of today. As historian R.G. Collingwood put it, "Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way." For instance, after 9/11, the dates that defined the past shriveled. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the end of the Cold War in 1989 shrank, while 1932 (the founding of Saudi Arabia) and 1979 (the founding of revolutionary Iran) seemed larger in the rearview.

Similarly, we can look back on the excesses of the war on terror and see our reflection there. Many on the left greeted the crisis more as an opportunity to find fault with America than as an opportunity to unify against a common foe. Before the bogeyman of "systemic racism," there was "Islamophobia" and the vaunted anti-Muslim backlash. While prejudice against Muslims certainly and regrettably increased, it's worth noting that hate crimes against American Jews outnumbered those against Muslims throughout the war on terror. I'm not sure that's worth celebrating, but the fact that America is arguably the safest place in the world to be a Jew certainly is.

Regardless, from the liberal hysteria about the Patriot Act's supposedly tyrannical assault on libraries to the right's wild fantasies that America was surrendering to Sharia law, the terror war now looks like our current culture war by other means.

In the early years, fretting over the threat to free speech posed by the war on terror was a left-wing obsession. Ward Churchill, who called the victims of 9/11 "Little Eichmanns," was a martyr to free expression. Dissent, we were told, was the highest form of patriotism. When Barack Obama became president, dissent lost its patriotic glow for the liberals who wanted a heckler's veto against those who would "provoke" jihadists with irresponsible expression such as cartoons or films mocking Muhammad or asinine own-the-libs stunts like Koran-burning. And of course, Donald Trump did, for a moment, put some teeth into the anti-Muslim backlash when he tried to ban all Muslims from entering the country.

Wherever you come down on the specific controversies, it's hard not be filled with regret and a little embarrassment over the solipsistic tendency of American politics to turn every issue into a stand-in for mutual partisan animosity. Even more depressing is the realization that the last 20 years have left us less prepared for the next 9/11 in the ways that matter most. Of course, the next 9/11 will look different, but the reaction probably won't.

Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief of The Dispatch and the host of The Remnant podcast. His Twitter handle is @JonahDispatch.

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Rosen Applauds National Science Foundation for Providing Over $735,000 in Grant Funding to Nevada for Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion in Science…

September 15, 2021 | Author: admin

WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, released the following statement applauding the National Science Foundation (NSF) for awarding grants totaling $735,679 to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and Nevada State College to support their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in science education.

To solve the pressing challenges of today and tomorrow, students in every Nevada community must have access to critical science education resources, said Senator Rosen. The NSF grants awarded to UNLV and Nevada State College will make science education more accessible to our students, enabling them to pursue careers in computer science and have a hand in solving the climate crisis. Im proud to support efforts by Nevada colleges and universities to open STEM education to more students, and I will continue fighting for the resources they need to ensure success.

BACKGROUND: The University of Nevada, Las Vegas was awarded $435,679 for its project entitled Developing Integrated Computer Science Curricula for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms in Grades 3-5. This project will develop integrated computer science curricula using educational robotics for linguistically diverse students in grades 3 through 5.

Nevada State College was awarded $300,000 for their project entitled Amplifying Climate Resilience Curriculum Using Informal Learning Opportunities for Undergraduates. This project will build and plan STEM education learning experiences that engage Latino students on the issue of climate change.

In December 2019, Senator Rosens Building Blocks of STEM Act was signed into law. The bipartisan bill created and expanded upon STEM education initiatives at the National Science Foundation for young children, including new research grants to increase the participation of girls in computer science.

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Microsoft expands computer science education program to Juarez, Mexico, and expands reach across 18 U.S. cities to improve high school students’…

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The expansion is the largest for Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) since the program was founded 12 years ago.

JUAREZ, Mexico, Sept. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Microsoft Corp. joined FECHAC, FUNAX, and community and government leaders to announce the expansion of the Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program to four high schools in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and 252 U.S. high schools across six net new cities and expanded reach in 12 cities. This is the largest program expansion into new cities and regions since TEALS was founded 12 years ago in 2009, and it's also the first time the current English language curriculum will be translated into Spanish through partnerships with curriculum providers such as Carnegie Mellon University.

Conalep III in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is participating in the Microsoft TEALS computer science education program this 2021-22 school year. Principal Alma Rosa Cital stands with high school students Roberto Delgado Muoz, Daisy Aguilera Suarez and Alexis Garca Amador.

Starting this 2021-2022 school year, TEALS, a Microsoft Philanthropies program that helps high schools develop and grow inclusive and sustainable computer science programs, will operate in four Ciudad Juarez high schools and reach approximately 160 students. Over the next five years, the program will expand to 12 additional high schools with 480 students, 12 teachers and 24 volunteers.

"The TEALS expansion to Mexico marks an important step in our efforts to make computer science education accessible to high school students in the region, increasing the likelihood that they'll continue to study technology and land meaningful, in-demand jobs that offer higher pay and career longevity," said Omar Saucedo, Microsoft TechSpark regional manager based in Ciudad Juarez. "In collaboration with our partners across the border, we will help students, teachers, volunteers and communities play an important role in and benefit from our growing digital economy."

To help make this cross-border expansion possible, Microsoft is partnering with FECHAC, a citizens' initiative in the state of Chihuahua to promote education, health and social capital development projects across civil organizations and public institutions, and Fundacin AXCEL A.C. (FUNAX), a program that empowers the entrepreneurial community to innovate, promote social development, and improve opportunities and quality of life in the region.

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"It is key that our youth have training opportunities like TEALS to secure better future job opportunities," said Gil Cueva, FECHAC Juarez president.

TEALS builds the capacity of teachers by pairing a tech industry volunteer with participating high school teachers to team-teach computer science. Volunteers support the teachers as they learn to teach computer science independently over time using proven curricula. TEALS also provides partner schools with strategies and resources to help increase equity, including creating inclusive learning spaces, promoting diversity in enrollment, and developing strategies for inclusive instruction.

"Our mission is to democratize technological education," said Lennys Snchez, FUNAX director. "TEALS represents a key strategy to achieve our goals in Juarez."

As part of Microsoft's racial equity and justice efforts announced in June 2020, 18 U.S. metropolitan areas with high populations of Black and African American students will offer computer science education through TEALS at 252 high schools, including in Atlanta; Birmingham, Ala.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Charleston, S.C.; Chicago; Dallas; Detroit; Houston; Jackson, Miss.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Los Angeles; Memphis, Tenn.; Miami; Montgomery, Ala.; New Orleans; New York (all five boroughs); Rochester, N.Y.; Selma, Ala.; St. Louis; and Washington.

TEALS focuses on serving students excluded from learning computer science because of race, gender or geography. Microsoft is committed to enhancing the program each year and supporting the teachers, volunteers and partners who make the ability to reach and help students learn possible. With its track record of sustained progress, TEALS is now one of the most established computer science education programs in North America.

TEALS has offered a hybrid model of remote teaching options since the program was started in which rural communities have the option of tapping volunteers who are based in regions outside their reach. With the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on in-person learning, TEALS offers virtual classroom options where volunteers participate remotely using video conferencing and other interactive features. During the 2021-2022 school year, about 1,300 remote volunteers will help team-teach students.

Additional facts about computer science education and the TEALS program:

Today, 58% of all new STEM-related jobs are in computing, but just 10% of STEM graduates are in computer science. TEALS aims to help address this gap.

According to Code.org, an organization that Microsoft partners with, 90% of parents want their child to study computer science, but just 47% of high schools teach it.

It's estimated there are currently 400,000 computing job openings, with roles available in every state. This demand is expected to grow at twice the rate of all other jobs.

TEALS operates in 31 states; Washington, D.C.; British Columbia, Canada; and now Juarez, Mexico. The program is composed of over 1,650 volunteers from over 700 companies and serves 17,000 students. Since its founding in 2009, TEALS has served over 93,000 students.

As of the 2020-2021 school year, approximately 29% of TEALS students self-identified as Hispanic or Latinx, 12% self-identified as Black or African American, and 29% self-identified as female. Microsoft aims to work with partners and participating schools to continue improving the diversity of students enrolled in TEALS computer science education programs.

Nearly 1 in 5 schools participating in TEALS are in rural communities.

According to the 2019-2020 end-of-year student survey, 58% of TEALS students report planning to study computer science in college, and 76% say they feel that they can succeed in future computer science classes. TEALS students also scored 8% higher than the national average on the 2018 AP Computer Science A exam.

About FECHAC

FECHACs mission is to create better opportunities for social and human development of Chihuahua's people.

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Our main goal is to develop projects that contribute to democratize knowledge to create equal opportunities to all citizens in the Juarez region.

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Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

High school students learn from remote Microsoft TEALS program volunteers who work in the tech industry, like Magnum Dampier in Smithville, Texas.

During the 2019-20 school year, TEALS students at Henry Ford Academy in Dearborn, Mich., participated in collaborative learning environments taught by instructors and volunteers like Brandy Foster.

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School of Computer and Cyber Sciences faculty receive $569000 National Science Foundation award – Jagwire Augusta

September 15, 2021 | Author: admin

Augusta University School of Computer and Cyber Sciences faculty members Dr. Gokila Dorai, Dr. Hoda Maleki and Dr. Gagan Agrawal have been awarded a $569,500 grant from the National Science Foundation.

The award is made possible through the National Science Foundations Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS) program. The project this award will fund is called A Socio-Technical Framework for Handling Digital Evidence with Security and Privacy Assurances.

With the increasing use of digital evidence in criminal proceedings, the project team is motivated by the following observations:

I believe that this project will lead to significant advancement of digital forensics practices and will provide a delicate balance between effective use of digital evidence and Fourth Amendment privacy rights, said Dorai, principal investigator on this project.

This project will also be uniquely positioned to bring together technology developers, researchers and legal scholars to study pressing issues of digital forensics and privacy.

The project will look at several things, including use of natural language processing (NLP) technologies and semi-structured data management toward developing software that responds to legal directives and retrieves relevant evidence from a device containing intermingled data, as well as using blockchain to create logs of access and modification of data stored by law enforcement.

I am excited about my contributions to the security aspects of this project, particularly the evaluation process which involves mathematical proofs of the security and privacy properties, said Maleki, co-principal investigator on this project. Our analysis involves understanding and formalizing the requirements of a secure digital evidence framework.

The project involves a novel application and further development of NLP techniques developed in the context of social media analytics, said Agrawal, professor and associate dean and also a co-principal investigator on the project.

This solicitation from the National Science Foundation wanted a collaborative team that included both technical and social components, and it is very exciting that we could form a winning team within USG institutes.

Dorai, Maleki and Agrawal at Augusta University are collaborating with a University of Georgia law faculty member, Dr. Thomas Kadri, who is funded through a separate collaborative $180,000 award.

The team is looking forward to having doctoral students involved in this project from the new PhD program in the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences.

The team will also be working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in evaluating their proposed socio-technical framework and said they appreciate GBIs support.

This project continues building our research momentum in cybersecurity and privacy, said Dr. Alex Schwarzmann, dean of the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences.

This research is motivated by the very real issues associated with the legal considerations in the use of digital sources of information in law enforcement and the novelty of this work includes collaboration of computer science faculty, law faculty and law enforcement agencies.

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UW-Madison ranked 42nd overall and 14th best public college by US News – University of Wisconsin-Madison

September 15, 2021 | Author: admin

The University of WisconsinMadison has ranked 42nd overall in U.S. News & World Reports 2022 rankings of best colleges. Photo: Bryce Richter

The University of WisconsinMadison has been ranked in a five-way tie for 42nd overall and 14th among public institutions in U.S. News & World Reports 2022 rankings of best colleges.

Last year, UWMadison was also ranked 42nd in a five-way tie and tied for 13th among public institutions.

The rankings, released today, include 389 national doctoral universities and are in the 2022 edition of Americas Best Colleges.

I am proud that UWMadison is once again being recognized for its quality, Chancellor Rebecca Blank says. Although rankings are only one of many measures of performance, it is good to share this recognition as we begin a new school year.

U.S. News gathers data from and about each school regarding undergraduate academic reputation, student excellence, faculty resources, expert opinion, financial resources, alumni giving, graduation and retention rates, graduate rate performances, and social mobility. Each indicator is assigned a weight based on U.S. News judgments about which measures of quality matter most.

UWMadison performed particularly well in peer reputation, ranking 28th overall and 7th among public institutions.

The report also evaluated undergraduate engineering, business, computer science programs and nursing.

UWMadisons undergraduate engineering program ranked 15th overall (four-way tie) and 7th among public doctoral-granting institutions (three-way tie). Ranked programs include 21st (two-way tie) in biomedical engineering, 10th in chemical engineering, 16th in civil engineering, 13th (three-way tie) in computer engineering, 16th (two-way tie) in electrical engineering, 21st (three-way tie) in environmental engineering, 8th in industrial/manufacturing/systems engineering, 14th in materials engineering, and 18th in mechanical engineering.

UWMadisons undergraduate business program ranked 19th overall (four-way tie) and 9th (four-way tie) public. UWMadison ranked 21st (five-way tie) in accounting, 22nd (six-way tie) in finance, 25th (four-way tie) in international business, 23rd (three-way tie) in management, second (first among publics) in real estate, ninth in marketing, 16th (three-way tie) in production/operations management, third (3rd among publics) in Insurance/Risk Management, 33rd (eight-way tie) in business analytics.

UWMadisons undergraduate computer science program ranked 18th overall (five-way tie) and ninth (three-way tie) among public universities. UWMadison was ranked 26th (four-way tie) in artificial intelligence, seventh (two-way tie) in computer systems, 14th in data analytics, seventh (three-way tie) and third (three-way tie) among publics in programming languages.

UWMadisons undergraduate nursing program ranked 19th (four-way tie) and 14th (two-way tie) among public universities.

Other categoriesinclude:

Best Colleges for Veterans, 20th overall and 14th among publics. Institutions included on this list must be certified for the GI Bill, participate in the Yellow Ribbon Program or be a public institution that charges in-state tuition to all out-of-state veterans, must have enrolled a minimum of 20 veterans and active service members in the 2020-21 academic year, and must be ranked in the top half of the institutions overall U.S. News ranking category.

Best Value Schools, 14th among publics for the second year in a row, based on a ratio of quality to price (overall rank divided by net cost), the percentage of undergraduates receiving need-based scholarships or grants, and the percent of a schools total cost of attendance that was covered by the average need-based scholarship or grant aid.

Tomake valid comparisons, schools are grouped by academic mission into 10 distinct categories. UWMadison is ranked among national universities, which offer a range of undergraduate majors, plus masters and doctoral programs, and emphasize faculty research or award professional practice doctorates.

Other categories are national liberal arts colleges, regional universities and regional colleges, which are divided into North, South, West and Midwest and West. Among the top 50 regional universities in the Midwest, UWLa Crosse was tied for 37th, UWEau Claire tied for 41st, and UWWhitewater tied for 49th.

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AI Avant-Garde: 3 Pioneering Works That Revolutionised The Field – Analytics India Magazine

September 15, 2021 | Author: admin

Modern-day AI is a culmination of weird ideas of stalwarts spread over centuries. The year 2021 especially is special in this regard as it also happens to be the 375th birth anniversary of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the 90th anniversary of Kurt Goedels 1931 groundbreaking paper, and the 80th anniversary of Konrad Zuses seminal work. These works laid the foundations for modern-day AI and its algorithms. The significance of this year was first brought to light by Prof. Juergen Schmidhuber, who himself has been responsible for many groundbreaking works in the field of AI.

Also known as the worlds first computer scientist, Leibnizs work had a great impact on the field of computing. According to Prof.Schmidhuber, many aspects of modern computer science can be traced back to Leibniz. Leibnizs step reckoner was the first machine to add, multiply and memorise numbers. In 1679, writes Prof.Schmidhuber, Leibniz described the very principles of a binary computer. His description describes precisely how electronic computers function. Gravity and movement of marbles are replaced by electrical circuits, but the principle functions in the same way.

Leibniz was also one of the first thinkers who tried to understand the fundamental concepts behind human thoughts and language. In a way, Leibniz has laid the foundations for modern-day natural language processing. In one of his essays, Leibniz opined that languages mirror the human mind, and by analysing the significance of words, one can gain more insights into the foundations of understanding. The earliest works on symbolic representation of human cognitive processes and human reasoning can be traced back to Leibniz. The intricacies of human reasoning still elude current AI researchers as the pursuit of artificial general intelligence continues.

Talking about Leibnizs contributions, computer scientist Stephen Wolfram in one of his talks on AI ethics, said that we can still have many of his contributions have their traces in theorem proving systems and modern ML or, Its humbling to see how many concepts it effectively forms that we havent yet absorbed in our culture, mulled Wolfram.

Kurt Gdel was known for his works on fundamental limits of theorem proving, computing, AI, logic, and mathematics itself. This had an enormous impact on the science and philosophy of the 20th century. Gdels incompleteness result is widely regarded as the most remarkable achievement of 20th-century mathematics. The significance of Gdels theorems aged well with time. From being ignored by mathematicians to realising its connectivity in many computing endeavours, Gdels work has had a great impact on theoretical computer science.

Gdels work on universal formal languages and the limits of proof and computation laid the foundations of theoretical computer science. Gdels incompleteness theorems deal with mathematical logic that demonstrates the inherent limitations of every formal axiomatic system capable of modelling basic arithmetic. Godels theorems are aimed at building a universal computer that can do any computation.

Wolfram also wrote in 2006: In the seventy-five years since then, what became known as Gdels theorem has been ascribed almost mystical significance, sowing the seeds for the computer revolution. Back in 2003, Prof. Schmidhuber even made an attempt to make superintelligent machines a reality by proposing a Gdel machine, which can rewrite its own code as soon as it has found proof that the rewrite is useful. Given the tremendous impact of Gdels results on AI theory, it does make sense to date AIs beginnings back to his 1931 publication 75 years ago, wrote Prof.Schmidhuber in a 2006 paper.

In 1941, Konrad Zuse completed the worlds first practical, working, programmable, general-purpose, computer called Z3, which was destroyed in a WW2 aerial bombing, but Zuses ideas survived. Z3 uses 2,300 relays, performs floating point binary arithmetic, and has a 22-bit word length. The physical hardware of Z3 was indeed universal in the modern sense of Gdel, Church, Turing, and Post simple arithmetic tricks can compensate for Z3s lack of an explicit conditional jump instruction, explained Prof.Schmidhuber.

The last century or so has witnessed tremendous innovation in the field of mathematics. New theories have been postulated, and traditional theorems have been immortalised through the advancement of fields such as computer science. We are still reaping the benefits of the exhaustive endeavours of the pioneers who unknowingly enabled us to build intelligent machines of the future. It seems incredible that within less than a century, something that once lived only in the minds of titans has become something so inalienable from modern society. The world owes these scientists a great debt, writes Prof.Schmidhuber.

Diverse prospective faculty kick-start career searches through long-running RIT program | RIT – RIT University News Services

September 15, 2021 | Author: admin

Rochester Institute of Technology is hosting African American, Latino/a American, and Native American scholars and artists from across the U.S. for a three-day virtual program to help them successfully navigate their career search process while getting a behind-the-scenes glimpse into life as an RIT faculty member. RITs Future Faculty Career Exploration Program (FFCEP) will welcome its 18th cohort from Sept. 22 to 24, inviting 21 scholars from universities ranging from Jackson State University to MIT to Howard University.

The program will be virtual for the second year in a row and grew from last years two-day program to allow participants more time with host departments. Participants get an opportunity to learn from and network with RIT administration, faculty, and students; practice their interview and presentation skills; and explore the research, teaching, and service expectations RIT has of its faculty. The program is for scholars and artists nearing the completion of the highest academic degree in their field, as well as junior faculty and those on post-doctoral assignments.

Donathan Brown, assistant provost and assistant vice president for faculty diversity and recruitment, said the Office of Faculty Diversity and Recruitment (OFDR) works hard to prepare program participants for their next stepwhether it is at RIT or somewhere else.

Our conversation is not only about RIT, who we are, what we do, and our current faculty and fellowship opportunities, said Brown. We also discuss how these artists and scholars can create competitive faculty applications.

The competitive program draws more than 100 applicants each year andhas hosted hundreds of AALANA scholars since its inception, 23 of whom who joined RITs faculty ranks. Brown said OFDR is placing an increasing emphasis on engaging diverse prospective faculty on college campuses, and that nine participants are a direct result of recent campus visits or outreach efforts through the Southern Regional Education Boards Institute on Teaching and Mentoring.

Below is a list of participants this year:

To learn more about FFCEP, go to the Office of Faculty Diversity and Recruitment website.

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