Today, I’m proud to welcome UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to Coursera as they launch their first free course, the Global MOOC on the Ethics of AI, which they built with LG AI Research. UNESCO has …
On Thursday 16 July, a team from Mathematics (Owen Pennington, Stanislaw Biber, Jessica Furber and Laura Jones) visited and received a guided tour of the Ion Beam Centre at the University of Surrey. The visit was organised by Laura Jones. …
Mark Wise, the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at Caltech, passed away on July 10 at age 72. At a recent memorial service, John Preskill made these remarks. I’m John Preskill, Mark’s colleague on the Caltech physics …
Pompeii is best known as a tomb. The ancient Roman city’s inhabitants were instantly encased in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, their last breaths suspended in time. But a new documentary series tells a different story: one …
Were we to take bets on the single most widely heard alarm clock, the one included on the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” would surely be a popular choice. It comes, you’ll recall, at the beginning of the song’s …
I am finding the newly revealed capability to code old applet ideas into reality to be very tempting to sink more time into, though I am certainly encountering the common “vibe coding” experience that the process can produce something that …
A federal judge in the US has allowed a whistleblower lawsuit to go forward, in which a former official of the National Institutes of Health accuses a Harvard professor of repurposing research grants and falsely claiming he had met his …
More than one in 10 Americans takes a GLP-1 medication for weight loss. As more people take a GLP-1, or glucagonlike peptide 1, receptor agonist, such as Wegovy, so, too, do more older adults—and those numbers are set to skyrocket. …
The conversation focused on demonstrating how to create an interactive “click-to-reveal” elearning slide in Adobe Captivate. One concept discussed was the integration of AI-generated audio narration with avatar animation, allowing users to experience a more engaging presentation. A key theme …
I believe that the creation of visualization apps to illustrate mathematical or scientific concepts is a particularly favorable use case for modern coding agents, as many of the downside risks attached to other LLM use cases are limited: Not mission-critical. …