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The U.S. National Science Foundation has honored Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio with the Alan T. Waterman Award, the nations highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers.

As the April 8 solar eclipse approaches, millions of people anticipate participating in the wonder of this celestial event. Yet, for those with visual impairments, traditional methods of observing such phenomena may present limitations. Fortunately, resources from the team of Tech’s School of Psychology professor, Bruce Walker, offer an inclusive approach, ensuring that everyone can engage with and appreciate the eclipse experience.

<p>TAIPEI, TAIWAN - <a href="https://www.media-outreach.com">Media OutReach</a> - 7 November 2023 - Applications for the 2024 Fall semester for Taiwan International Graduate Program (<a href="http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/">TIGP</a>) of Academia Sinica. The <a href="https://tigp.apps.sinica.edu.tw/index.php">online application</a> is open from 1st November 2023 to 1st February 2024 (GMT+8).</p>

Royal Holloway, Google, Microsoft and Albert Einstein are some of the most popular scholarships being offered to Indian students to study computer science engineering in top colleges, firms, or research groups across the world

Alexander Nelson, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundations Human-Centered Computing Program.

It brings us no pleasure to report this, but: the unholy union of SEO spam and AI-generated muck is here. And in this new age of mass-produced spam, reality, unfortunately, might be going right out the door. Earlier this week, we stumbled onto a website called The Enlightened Mindset. And to be clear, this website […]

Saliency cards, developed at MIT and IBM, seek to describe a machine-learning model’s behavior and to help users quickly compare methods so they can choose the right one for their task.

Casey Fiesler’s profile on The Conversation

MIT researchers built a prototype social media platform to study the effects of giving users more agency to assess content for accuracy and control the posts they see based on accuracy assessments from others. Users were able to make accurate assessments, despite having no prior training, and they valued and utilized the assessment and filtering tools they designed.

Sight Tech Global announced the agenda for their virtual, free and highly accessible event on December 7 and 8, with some of the world’s top experts working on assistive tech for people who are blind or visually impaired.