Technology and Education
Education is undergoing a lot of changes these days. Doors are closing, and online learning is getting all the attention and resulting in systems […]
Science and Race
Earlier this year a task force organized by the American Institute of Physics released the results of a study into why African American students are persistently under-represented […]
Emerging Tech in a Pandemic
COVID-19 has changed many aspects of the world we live in these days. Some of those changes were expected and some are surprising. The […]
AI vs. Human Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a popular topic. It is used in a large amount of functions both at work, in science, and at home…to […]
Pandemic Creates New Challenges Going Forward
Months into this pandemic and weeks into working from home for a majority of the country – wait, just weeks? I know it feels […]
Digital Library – Free and Searchable
The UC Berkeley Library recently launched its Digital Collections website. This portal into the Library’s growing collection of digitized materials is fully searchable and free to […]
Training for New Data Scientists
Both Aporta and the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) recognize the need to solve global challenges through rigorous and systemic analysis […]
The Industry Results of the Pandemic
There has been a huge impact on many industries due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Travel has been hit the hardest with oil and […]
Deep Learning Used in Healthcare
There is a rapid rise in drug resistance in many pathogens which leaves the need for new antibiotics at an all time high. It […]
Scientific Racism vs. Modern Genetics
Classifications have been around forever. In science, in information management, in the grocery store aisles and in society. This interesting topic came to us from […]