Archive for February, 2022

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 28, 2022   UTEP Launches Systems Modeling and Simulation Concentration with $1M Grant from U.S. Dept. of Education University of Texas at El Paso, UTEP Newsfeed from February 21, 2022 The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Engineering will establish a concentration in Systems […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 23, 2022   UT Austin President Jay Hartzell defends faculty tenure after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick proposes to end it at all public universities Texas Tribune, Kate McGee from February 21, 2022 Patrick’s suggestion to end tenure at public universities received swift criticism from faculty and […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 22, 2022   How the Dutch use big data to keep their country afloat The Next Web, Alejandro Tauber from February 15, 2022 What’s challenging here is that bridges and locks are sometimes tendered by the responsible province or municipality, explains Therry van der Burgt, solution […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 19, 2022   EPFL and DeepMind use AI to control plasmas for nuclear fusion EPFL, News from February 16, 2022 EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) has decades of experience in plasma physics and plasma control methods. DeepMind is a scientific discovery company acquired by Google in […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 16, 2022   Department of Energy Announces $18 Million for Research to Advance Particle Accelerator Technology U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science from February 10, 2022 This research seeks to advance the state of the art in accelerator technology toward improving cost effective operation of […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 15, 2022   How AI is Changing Chemical Discovery Substack, The Gradient newsletter, Vincent Cano Gil from February 12, 2022 How is it accelerating chemical discovery? First, machine learning has improved existing methods of simulating chemical environments. We have already mentioned that computational chemistry allows us […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 9, 2022   What does the future hold for master’s degree programs in business analytics? Fortune, Education, Rich Griset from February 08, 2022 Business analytics programs report high demand from prospective students. The master’s degree program at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 8, 2022   US pushes back on EU’s proposed laws impacting US tech companies GZERO Media, Marietje Schaake from February 04, 2022 The EU is working on a series of legislative proposals, for example, to ensure risk mitigation around the use of AI, or the protection […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 7, 2022   Google’s Ethical AI Team Is Still Struggling Bloomberg, Newsletter, Nico Grant from February 04, 2022 On Wednesday two influential members of the company’s Ethical AI team, Alex Hanna and Dylan Baker, departed in a very public fashion, dredging up a controversy Alphabet’s Google […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for February 4, 2022   Deepnote raises $20M for its collaborative data science notebooks Yahoo, TechCrunch, Frederic Lardinois from February 01, 2022 Deepnote, a startup that is building a data science platform on top of Jupyter-compatible notebooks, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A […]

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