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The year was 1958, I just returned from an industry job to graduate school. There were two types of computers competing for attention at that time. There was the analog computer type which uses high gain feedback amplifier to perform integration. This makes simulating dynamic models obeying dif ...
The amazing AI super tutor for students and teachers Sal Khan: The amazing AI super tutor for students and teachers | TED Talk Comment Read transcript Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest posi ...
With the major sponsorship of the Committee of 100 (an elite organization of prominent CAs) and the Social Science Department of Columbia University also with helps from the US Census Bureau, the Pew Research Organization, and the office of the White House Initiative of Asian and Pacific ...
I was taking a nap today and a worker from the BrookHaven (our retirement living community) maintenance rang the doorbell. Apparently they do annual check (we have been here one year and 3 weeks) on the proper functioning of all alarm devices, replace the batteries on devices and filters on heatin ...
INTERCONNECT - A New Play about Ch\ina, America, and the Chinese in the US With the Internet as the background connection, this play is a series of vignettes about the last 50 years of history of China and America across 3 generations of the Chinese diaspora in the US climaxing in the disruptive ...
I attended the memorial; service of my colleague Professor Roger Brockett yesterday. Roger accidentally fell from the top of a stairway in his home last Novemeber and was in ICU all this time. Many heroic attempts to revive him was not successful and he left us 3/19/2023. He was 85. The service was ...
The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes BySteven Johnson PublishedMarch 15, 2023UpdatedMarch 17, 2023 New York Times To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times,&n ...
We are on the verge of being able to realize the well known phrase Ithink therefore I am . In other words, we can will our thought and transforming them to action such as typing out an piece of prose describing the though without any physical actions on our partt. We are gradually ...