Berkeley researchers offer social media platforms easier way to censor
Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley are developing a tool that would utilize artificial intelligence to police online "hate speech."
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Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley are developing a tool that would utilize artificial intelligence to police online "hate speech."
Rutgers University offers a course, titled “Practicing Social Justice," which teaches “nonviolent confrontational organizing” and “resistance strategies.”
In 2011, then-Texas Governor Rick Perry called on the Lone Star State’s public four-year universities to craft affordable bachelor’s degrees, what the Governor labeled at the time, “$10,000 degrees.”
Some California community colleges are turning down state money for free tuition to avoid participating in the federal loan program.
Harvard University signed a statement in late December denouncing U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen for a policy limiting the stay of international students in the country
University of Massachusetts at Amherst has come under fire for asking a student to take down a poster from her dorm room that condemned Nazis using profanity, saying it was not "inclusive."
BMC Biology’s ‘portable peer review’ policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections
The report released today also recommended the salary schedule be reduced from 30 steps to 25, which would give faculty at least a 2 percent ongoing increase. If the recommendations are accepted, faculty would receive retroactive increases of 2 percent to July 1, 2017, 2 percent to July 1, 2018 and a 4 percent increase beginning Tuesday.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is quickly becoming commonplace in computers and consumer electronics.
The number of candidates to sit the entrance exam for postgraduate studies from Dec 22 to 24 will reach a record high of 2.9 million, a 21.8 percent increase over last year, according to a report published by the education information portal eol.cn.