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Effective Ways to Recruit Students Through Virtual Campus Tours

From videoconferencing to smartphones, colleges turn to technology to engage prospective students. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit this spring, Western Connecticut State University lost one of its most vital recruiti ng tools: on-campus visits that allow prospective students and parents to explore and get a feel for student life. WCSU isn’t alone. COVID-19 has upended higher education, forcing classroom instruction to go fully online or to a hybrid blend of in-class and online

Can Artificial Intelligence Be An Inventor?

In the decades ahead AI will help us invent things and find patents that previously would not have been possible. We’re already starting to see this in Big pharma and in the advancing biotechnology realm. As AI by itself starts to invent things, who legally gets the patent? In late April, 2020 the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a decision that claims artificial intelligences cannot be inventors. Only “natural persons” currently have the right to get a pat

A Coronavirus Voice AI Test Will Be Available Soon

While artificial intelligence has been a massive failure in helping the world to cope with the pandemic, it’s not all bad news.

Artificial Intelligence Is Reaching a New Stage

Microsoft’s interest in OpenAI was very clear when it invested $1 Billion in July, 2019. Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an

China Is Winning the AI Wars with the Advent of TikTok Global

Like Huawei, ByteDance has come into the center stage of the cold tech wars. Trump’s version of competition sounds a bit like gangster capit

The suddenly remote semester

As covid-19 spread into the US, MIT made the seemingly unthinkable call to send students, faculty, and staff home. Here’s how that decision went down—and how the Institute retooled on the fly. by Alice Dragoonarchive page ADCOVERBOY VIA WIKIPEDIA, CC BY-SA 3.0 At the start of the spring semester, the Institute asked members of the MIT community who’d just been in China to self-quarantine for 14 days to prevent the possible spread of covid-19 on cam- pus. When 200 or so studen

Michael Crow: crisis should herald cooperation and differentiation

Reform-minded Arizona State University president shares vision for a successful university model in wake of pandemic, saying institutions have done an ‘inadequate job of social empowerment’ By Ellie Bothwell Twitter: @elliebothwell Source: Arizona State University The coronavirus pandemic has caused widespread disruption to higher education across the globe. But for Michael Crow, regarded as one of the most reform-minded university presidents in the US, it is just one of man

Transformation and the Long Game in Higher Education

Over the last week, a spate of articles has been published that detail the grim reality of the challenge being faced by higher education as

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COVID-ED: Never Let a Crisis go to Waste

Over the last couple of weeks, I started thinking about how the push to move classes online, as a response to COVID-19, might impact Higher

The Coronavirus and Online Learning – An Alternate Perspective

Let me be clear – I believe that our primary concern at this point should be to protect and save as many lives as possible.

50 Questions to Test True Data Science Knowledge

This was the subject of a popular discussion recently posted on Quora: 20 questions to detect a fake data scientist. We asked our own data scientist, and he came up with a very different set of questions: compare his answer (#1 below - 20 questions) with Quora replies (#2 and #3 below - 30 questions). Note that #2 focuses on statistics, and #3 on architecture. The link to the original Quora discussion is also provided in this article. Which questions would you add or remove?

Build your First Image Classification Model in just 10 Minutes!

“Build a deep learning model in a few minutes? It’ll take hours to train! I don’t even have a good enough machine.”

Power BI Premium and Azure Analysis Services

From: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/power-bi-premium-and-azure-analysis-services/ Power BI Premium provides the richest set of capabilities for both self-service and enterprise BI solutions. Azure Analysis Services is also an option for enterprise BI solutions. So if you’re looking at deploying an enterprise BI solution, which one is for you? First – some definitions. Power BI Premium is a hosted service (SaaS) that allows you to host datasets and share Power BI

It’s a Record-Breaking Crowd! A Must-Read Tutorial to Build your First Crowd Counting Model using DL

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is going to be our biggest helper in coming decade!

Learn How Power BI and Accessibility Work Together

From: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/learn-how-power-bi-and-accessibility-work-together/ Power BI’s accessibility documentation has been expanded from one article to five new articles for you to explore. We hope that these new articles will help you learn more about how Power BI can empower your organization, report creators, and report consumers through accessibility. Here’s a breakdown of how the articles are structured: Overview of accessibility in Power BI Thi