A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer (And Rethink Basketball) BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcoexist.com Ayasdi, a new big-data firm with close ties to Stanford University and DARPA has plans to change the way researchers analyze cancer, money laundering, and professional sports. Creating visualizations of huge data sets is big business.… RT @FastCompany: A … Continue reading A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer
New big data firm to pioneer topological data analysis Posted by John Burn-Murdoch, guardian.co.uk Stanford University project goes commercial following groundbreaking research into cancer therapy and counter-terrorism strategy • More from the Guardian on big data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian A US big data… RT @guardianscience: New big data … Continue reading New big data firm to pioneer topological data
Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Courtesy of Udacity Udacity, the digital university co-founded by artificial intelligence and robotics pioneer Sebastian Thrun, has raised $15 million, joining a crop of online education startups to attract venture capi… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is … Continue reading Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education
Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level - NYTimes.com. Related articles Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level - NYTimes.com (policyabcs.wordpress.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Are online courses more susceptible to cheating problems? (blogs.ajc.com) Progress Making Higher Education More Affordable (healthymemory.wordpress.com) Why Are Students Cheating on … Continue reading Coursera: Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level
MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls - NYTimes.com. New Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs and startup companies such as Udacity and Udemy are turning conventional education on its head. Udacity, a startup which is supported by Charles River Ventures, was created by former professors at Stanford who taught one AI course online … Continue reading Udacity, Udemy: MOOCs disrupt conventional science and tech talent acquisition and education
The Stanford professor whose online computer science course went viral is now at it again.. From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education : All Tech Considered : NPR. Related articles Stanford University Students Launch Sites By Hand, A Social Business for Global Development of Personal Websites and Effective Web Solutions (prweb.com) Menlo Ventures' Pishevar … Continue reading Stanford professors create startup to expand high quality university education online
Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar - NYTimes.com. Related articles StartX, Stanford's nonprofit accelerator, nabs $800,000 funding grant (venturebeat.com) Inside Stanford's creativity factory (management.fortune.cnn.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Home Schooling As the 21st Century Model for Public Schools? (etcjournal.com) Dear Candice, I'm Sorry About The Internet - LockerGnome (lockergnome.com) The … Continue reading Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar
Inspired by Khan Academy a new Stanford e-learning course on AI has triggered a huge volume of interest (4 times the size of the entire student body!) Stanford Artificial Intelligence course draws avalanche of sign-ups. Related articles Artificial Intelligence (unrealengine.com) Using Artificial Intelligence (And A Little Scolding) To Reduce Energy Use (fastcoexist.com) Artificial intelligence (cyberleague.wordpress.com) … Continue reading Stanford artificial intelligence e-learning course draws four times the entire student body
CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online. Related articles Stanford's Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford's Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford adds social learning component to free online course (insidehighered.com) Digitization Projects: Stanford Releases Hundreds of Oral History Interviews Online (infodocket.com) … Continue reading CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online
Great article on Franco Moretti, a Stanford English professor, is championing computational linguistics, data mining, computer modeling, and network theory to take a data-centric approach to novels, which he graphs, maps, and charts. Using IBM’s Visual Communications Lab he is turning books into a series of word clouds. He is also identifying the best titles and discovered a … Continue reading Moretti: Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit
Journal-ist: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | Fast Company. Innovation is a game of not only imagination but also speed. To that end, Steve Stringer, in Research Technology Management, suggests that computer modeling, which can go down to the atomic level, may replace rather than just supplement conventional R&D.; Related articles Fast Company Is Looking For A Creative Services … Continue reading Steve Stringer: Computer modeling will replace conventional R&D
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