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Quantum Computing Explained at the University of Illinois Springfield
Quantum courses have been around for a while, but today, the theories are becoming reality. More...
Governments take first, tentative steps at regulating AI
State legislatures in New York and New Jersey have proposed legislation that represents the first, tentative steps at regulation. More...
Teaching Students How To Use Digital Literacy To Find A Job
Despite being labeled ‘digital natives’, most students today lack the ability to transfer the knowledge and technological skills they have to practical tasks like finding a job. More...
AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another’s shoes
Artificial intelligence has passed a classic theory of mind test used with chimpanzees. More...
What Kids Need to Learn to Succeed in 2050 – The art of reinvention will be the most critical skill of this century
In such a world, the last thing a teacher needs to give her pupils is more information. More...
2019’s Most & Least Educated Cities in America
To determine where the most educated Americans are putting their degrees to work, WalletHub compared the 150 largest metropolitan statistical areas, or MSAs, across 11 key metrics. More...
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means for the future of work
The problem is, at present, higher education is designed for the last industrial revolution, not the current one. Universities and colleges deliver degrees at a glacial pace. More...
Alibaba has claimed a new record in AI language understanding
An AI program developed by Alibaba has notched up a record-high score on a reading comprehension test. The result shows how machines are steadily improving at handling text and speech. More...
What Matters More: Skills or Degrees?
So, what we hear from industry is that they want workers with the soft skills that do not go out of date, as well as a basic understanding of the current hard facts and skills that will be useful for just a few years before they must be upskilled for a new generation of technology. More...