May 2, 2024
AI holds the potential to help doctors find early markers of disease and accelerate research on other important scientific advances. But a growing body of evidence has revealed deep flaws in how machine learning is used in science, a problem that has swept through dozens of fields and implicated thousands…
December 13, 2011
…possible applications include helping sociologists detect potentially significant changes and patterns in population, as well as helping economists spot how such things as computerized trading affect world financial markets. “Gordon’s extraordinary speed makes it possible for researchers to tackle questions they couldn't address before, simply because they didn't have enough…
May 15, 2014
…with ethicists, anthropologists, glaciologists, sociologists, economists, politicians, biologists, religious leaders, atmospheric chemists, labor organizers, and people of so many more disciplines,” said Kelly, a fifth-year student in the lab of Scripps marine biologist Jennifer Smith. Ramanathan has met with John Paul II and his successor Pope Benedict XVI, who appointed…
February 26, 2015
…Burney says. “It is really grass roots, interdisciplinary research: sociologists are working with physicists, economists are working with climate scientists. The faculty here really care about important issues. They are motivated by big crucial questions, and there are no boundaries as to how they find the answers.”
September 12, 2017
…experts ranging from economists, sociologists, and engineers to urban planners and political scientists to document climate change impacts on the environment, ecosystems, and humans and to devise practical solutions to climate change effects widely regarded as inevitable. Besides sea-level rise, those effects range from coastal erosion and flooding to the…
August 19, 2019
…experts ranging from economists, sociologists and engineers to urban planners and political scientists. These individuals document climate change impacts on the environment, ecosystems and humans and devise practical solutions to climate change effects widely regarded as inevitable. “This gift from the Hertzbergs has had immediate impact on climate change research…
July 14, 2022
…experts ranging from economists, sociologists and engineers to urban planners and political scientists to document climate change impacts and devise practical solutions. In 2017, the late Franklin Antonio ’74, became the first alumnus to have a building named in his honor after making a $30 million gift to support the…
October 31, 2018
A new study shows that even if fishers in the Gulf of California used the most efficient and sustainable known practices, most wouldn’t generate enough revenue to maintain a living above poverty level.
