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Learning to forget a weapon in the arsenal against harmful AI – EurekAlert
With the AI summit well underway, researchers are keen to raise the very real problem associated with the technology teaching it how to forget. Society is now abuzz withmodern AIand its exceptional capabilities; we are constantly reminded its potential benefits, across so many areas, permeating practically all facets of our lives but also its dangers. In an emerging field of research, scientists are highlighting an important weapon in our arsenal towards mitigating the risks of AI machine unlearning.
How to decarbonize the world, at scale – MIT News
The world in recent years has largely been moving on from debates about the need to curb carbon emissions and focusing more on action the development, implementation, and deployment of the technological, economic, and policy measures to spur the scale of reductions needed by mid-century. That was the message Robert Stoner, the interim director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), gave in his opening remarks at the 2023 MITEI Annual Research Conference.
Patriot League Announces 2023 Men’s and Women’s Cross Country … – Patriot League Official Athletic Site
Story Links BETHLEHEM, Pa. Navy senior Sam Keeny and Boston University sophomore Vera Sjberg were selected as the 2023 Patriot League Mens and Womens Cross Country Scholar-Athletes of the Year when the League office announced honors on Friday.Keeny and Sjberg were also selected to the seven- and eight-member Academic All-Patriot League mens and womens squads.Four mens and womens cross-country student-athletes are multiple-time Academic All-Patriot League honorees.
NSF Award to Aid Interdisciplinary Researchers in Detecting Cancer – Lehigh University
To determine whether a patient has cancer, a bodily fluid sample is taken, exposed in a vial to several types of DNAwrapped carbon nanotubes, and the fluorescence of each nanotube is recorded. One of the goals of the project, DNA-Nanocarbon Hybrid Materials for Perception-Based, Analyte-Agnostic Sensing, is to have an automated disease detection system into which data about a bodily fluid can be inputted.
Using language to give robots a better grasp of an open-ended world – MIT News
Imagine youre visiting a friend abroad, and you look inside their fridge to see what would make for a great breakfast.
Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, School of … – Times Higher Education
Department: School of Computer Science and Engineering Position: Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor Description School of Computer Science and Engineering (Former Faculty of Information Technology) is one of the first four faculties established in the newly founded Macau University of Science and Technology in 2000.
Math and Science grad student seminar series returns for fall – Brock University
Trees and bees are the focus of upcoming biological sciences research presentations that will kick off the Graduate Mathematics and Science Students (GRAMSS) Seminar Series for the 2023-24 academic year.
The Future of Fully Homomorphic Encryption – IEEE Spectrum
This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In our digital age, where information flows seamlessly through the vast network of the internet, the importance of encrypted data cannot be overstated
Dallas County ‘interrupted’ data exfiltration, prevented encryption after attack – The Record from Recorded Future News
Dallas County provided an update on the ransomware attack that was reported this week, telling residents that they were able to stop the incident before the hackers could encrypt files or systems. On Monday, the county of nearly 3 million residents confirmed it was dealing with a cybersecurity incident after the Play ransomware gang claimed it breached their systems this weekend. On Tuesday evening, the county released a follow-up statement providing more details about the incident.
Dallas County says it prevented file encryption during ransomware attack – StateScoop
External cybersecurity professionals helped prevent any encryption of Dallas County government files or systems following a recent cyberattack, the city announced this week. A ransomware attack the county detected Oct