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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

The week-long training ran from mornings into afternoons, with chummy lunch breaks in the faculty lounge, or the buzzing cafe in the Science Center lobby. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.) This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July.

Calculus 363
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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

Futurum

SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? What is SHAPE? What might be the environmental impacts of shoes?

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. He is investigating the connection between poor transport links and social inequality, and bringing sanitation to a remote community in the Andes. Access to water and sanitation are fundamental human rights. Published: June 30, 2022.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

Futurum

It involves not just fire behaviour but also animal ecology, human ethics, social science, engineering, politics, environmental law, health science and mathematics.” Pathway from school to bushfire risk analysis • At school and post-16, take maths alongside other science subjects like biology and chemistry.

Research 111
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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

In this article, we speak to GIS experts about how they use GIS to address social and environmental issues in Chicago, Illinois, and the surrounding area. Talk like a geographic information systems expert Cartography — map making Environmental justice — ensuring equitable access to the environment for all people.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. There are things we “just want to do”—as a “social matter”, for “entertainment”, for “personal satisfaction”, etc. And in biology it shows up as some structure (ribosome, cell, wing, etc.) It’s very much like with ChatGPT.

Computer 102
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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

Should we think of it essentially as a practical tool for accessing existing methods, or does it provide something fundamentally new for science? My goal here is to explore and assess what AI can and can’t be expected to do in science. We know the ones that correspond to “known science”. So how does AI stack up?

Science 115