Chronique de Ma茂a Korotkina, 脡cole d'茅ducation permanente.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Starting this month, students from five faculties (arts, science, engineering, music, and agriculture and environmental sciences) can pursue minors in entrepreneurship, with finance, accounting, marketing and other business fundamentals taught by professors from the Desautels Faculty of Management.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Karl Moore of 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, who has asked over 200 CEOs about introversion on the radio show he hosts, says that introverts who make it to the top usually learn how to behave like extroverts for some of the time.听
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Article d鈥檕pinion par Robert Whitley, Professeur adjoint au d茅partement de psychiatrie.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
鈥淚t gives you the time to actually sit down in front of something that first attracted your eye so that you understand what was the detail that may you want to sit down and sketch.鈥澨�Maureen DeCarbonniers, architecture student.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
鈥淓xperimental clinical trials would provide the most definitive proof on any cause-and-effect relation between medical cannabis and reduced opioid use.鈥澨�Mark Ware, director of clinical research at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Yesterday (September 6, 2016)听saw the launch of a new book by Cathy O'Neil with the provactive听title听Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. O'Neil holds a听Ph.D. from Harvard in Math and was a听tenure-track math听professor until 2007, when she听quit academia to join听Wall Street. That fledging second career came to an end just a year later听with the Financial Crisis, after which O'Neil again changed careers and became a data scientist.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2016
The August 24 episode of听"Babbage", a听podcast from The Economist听about science and technology news, reports on an worrisome听new Russian web-site, FindFace.ru. This website allows you to input a picture of a face and do a search for that person, or someone who looks like that person,听on VK.com, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. The website boasts of a 70% accuracy rate.
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Published on: 25 Aug 2016
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming听more and more integrated in our daily lives: AI agents听might听decide if you get a bank loan, or if your job application will ever reach听human eyes. Not everyone is comfortable with this trend, since听we don't always know exactly how the AI comes to its decision. AI learns from existing data to predict future data, but its inner workings can be a mystery听even to the AI's programmers. That's a problem if the AI is making life or death decisions, as it would in missile systems or unmanned drones.
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Published on: 18 Aug 2016
There is a dark corner of the Internet where hackers sell their software. The process unfolds in three steps.
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Published on: 10 Aug 2016
What causes depression? Of course, life circumstances such as traumatic events, severe stress or grief play a role, but heredity studies have shown that a genetic predisposition to depression is equally important as environmental triggers [1]. Until very recently, though, the genes that underpin such a predisposition have proven elusive.
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Published on: 10 Aug 2016
Phishing messages typically get 5-10% response rates, but a new system has boosted its rate to 40%.听John Seymour and Phil Tully, two听data scientists from the security company听ZeroFOX, presented their听system SNAP_R听at Black Hat, a Las Vegas conference on cyber-security, on August 4. SNAP_R uses a deep neural net to听study a person's past tweets and then mimics that person's writing style using听a Markov model, generating听a phishing tweet. So far, there is no reason to think that criminals are using a similar system, but Seymour and Tully's work show how it might be done.
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Published on: 5 Aug 2016
Online bullying and trolls are the darker side of social media. Twitter's Chief Executive Officer 听that he wanted听to make听it a corporate priority to听detect听abuse and hate speech on Twitter.
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Published on: 2 Aug 2016
The Gatineau native and 9I制作厂免费 student was named the first Canadian winner of the Infiniti Engineering Academy competition on Thursday. That earns him a yearlong paid internship in Europe, with his time split evenly between the Infiniti Research Centre in Enstone, England, and the Renault Formula One racing team, which has its headquarters in Cranfield, England.
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Published on: 30 Jul 2016
Autour combines GPS, Google Maps, public transit and other data with ambient sound to provide descriptions of businesses, landmarks and services near the user.
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Published on: 30 Jul 2016
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