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Oakwood University Crowned the 35th Honda Campus All-Star Challenge National Champion: 4/15/2024 4:31:24 AM; • Oakwood University bested 31 teams to win the 2024 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) National Championship--the nation’s premier HBCU academic competition--and a $100,000 institutional grant from Honda • Howard University, Spelman College and Morehouse College finished in the top four • To watch highlights from the National Championship Tournament, visit …
Has remote work changed how people travel in the U.S?: 4/9/2024 9:27:21 AM; The prevalence of remote work since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed urban transportation patterns in the U.S., according to new study led by MIT researchers.
Helping robots make a better first impression: 4/9/2024 9:20:07 AM; An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Waterloo’s Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Lab (SIRRL) has found that people prefer interacting with robots they perceive to have social identities like their own.
ACD/Labs’ Educational Software for Drawing Chemical Structures Achieves New Milestone: 4/9/2024 9:00:00 AM; ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of digitalized R&D, today announced that ChemSketch Freeware has been downloaded by over 2.5 million users worldwide.
Tess Korobkin Receives the 20th Annual Frost Essay Award: 4/9/2024 3:42:30 AM; Tess Korobkin is the recipient of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for her article “Monumental Absence: Augusta Savage’s Unbuilt Monuments, 1931–1943,” which appeared in the fall 2023 issue (vol.
Mary Ann Chimera’s “Take Charge of Your Career” Will Be Exhibited at the 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books: 4/1/2024 7:36:26 PM; The self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet will display Mary Ann Chimera’s “Take Charge of Your Career: A Guide to Organizing and Conducting a Successful Job Search in These Competitive Times” at the 2024 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
Large language models use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge: 3/26/2024 10:40:56 AM; Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as customer support, code generation, and language translation, scientists still don’t fully grasp how they work.
The world is one step closer to secure quantum communication on a global scale: 3/26/2024 10:31:56 AM; Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have brought together two Nobel prize-winning research concepts to advance the field of quantum communication.
Bloomberg New Voices Launches Initiative in São Paulo: 3/26/2024 5:48:39 AM; Bloomberg announced the expansion of its New Voices program to São Paulo with a celebration and networking reception held at Instituto Tomie Ohtake. This marks the program’s first expansion into South America, and São Paulo now joins New York, London, Paris, Johannesburg, Dubai, Singapore, and more as the initiative’s 16th city.