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‘Dont be obsessed with computer science’ – Indiatimes.com
Through her degree programme at Meerut University, and even during her MTech in applied geophysics in IIT Roorkee, Richa Rastogi never learnt a computer language. But her MTech subject drew her to seismic modelling, and that brought her to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Pune. She joined as a member of its technical staff, but soon realised that her work on modelling required knowledge of computer languages and programs.I had to learn from scratch, and it was daunting. I started with C programming, then Linux. Since I was working fulltime, I studied after work. Later, I learned parallel programming, as we work on supercomputers. I would read up the physics behind a topic and then convert it into a program, and use parallel programming to run it on a supercomputer, Richa says.In 2005, several senior C-DAC members left the organisation, and Richa suddenly, at the age of 27, found herself leading a team. I was still learning the computing part. Being a team member is different from leading a team. But I accepted the challenge. The first thing I did, apart from all my regular work and fine-tuning my programming skills, was to read scientific journals related to my field to keep myself updated about new technologies being discovered around the world. I started presenting my own papers at reputed conferences, she says.Richa now heads the high-performance computing seismic data processing group in C-DAC, and is busy fine-tuning indigenous software that will help Indian oil companies reduce offshore exploration costs drastically. Currently, the companies pay huge sums for foreign software.Her team works on a software suite called SeisRTM, which will be used to image Earths subsurface structures. Currently, seismic explorations collect data in search of oil and gas reservoirs, which is then processed by foreign software to create images of the subsurface based on which decisions about drilling locations are made.Once we wrote the software (SeisRTM), we needed to test it. We are getting the datasets to test our software from ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation). After processing it, we will send the images back to ONGC so that they can validate our results using the software they are currently operating with. The best part about this software is that it is easily customisable, unlike the ones we buy or take on a licence from abroad, Richa says.
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Kentucky selected to join computer science alliance focused on … – Kentucky Teacher
Skip to contentKentucky selected to join computer science alliance focused on expanding access to quality computing education
Kentucky is among a cohort of seven states selected to join the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance.
Funded by the National Science Foundation and Google, the ECEP Alliance is leading efforts to advance access to quality computing education across the United States.
Kentucky is committed to advancing statewide participation in computing initiatives and is working toward providing equitable access to computer science courses for all students in the states K-12 education system through data-based planning, including policy analysis and identifying groups with limited or no access to computer science education.
We must work together to provide students with the skills they need to thrive in our globally interconnected world. Americas changing workforce has taught us the importance of computer science and digital literacy education, said Jason E. Glass, Kentuckys Commissioner of Education. Joining the ECEP Alliance will allow Kentucky to learn from and work with other states and organizations committed to improving computer science education.
States working with the ECEP Alliance pursue systemic change at the state level, resulting in more diverse students pursuing educational paths in computer science.
By gathering advocates from across the computing education ecosystem, ECEP states build the teams needed to advance computer science education and educational policy reform, said Sarah Dunton, director of the ECEP Alliance. This diversity of voices and expertise helps states to focus conversations on equity in computer science education and build sustainable strategies.
By joining the ECEP alliance, Kentucky continues to work toward the goals ofUnited We Learn (UWL), the states vision for the future of education. The three big ideas of UWL are community collaboration, innovation and rich learning experiences for each Kentucky student.
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Outstanding Graduate of the College pursues community change … – University of Colorado Boulder
In her first year at CU Boulder, Elizabeth Eyeson (CompSci'23) said she realized that the Department of Computer Science did not have a high quality space for office hours or studying.
"I had my first office hours ever in the old aerospace wing [before the wing's renovation] and remember being shocked by the state of it. All I could think was, why are we having office hours in this dim, cramped and outdated space," Eyeson said.
She then saw the opportunity to work with an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students on solutions for the department through joining the Computer Science Departmental Action Team.
"I thought, maybe if I joined the team, we could get a better study space," she said.
But Eyeson did more than just slightly improve the space, said Department Chair Ken Anderson. "She was a leader in redesigning the lab as a more welcoming and inclusive environment."
Today, the completely remodeled Computer Science Education Lab has rooms for office hours and desks where, any day of the week, you can see students studying and collaborating.
The space also has a digital mural created in collaboration with local artist Graham Fee and faculty member Elisabeth Stade. Future plans for the space include dedicating the study rooms to diverse pioneers in the field and an art installation in honor of Professor Mike Eisenberg.
"The benefits of her hard work will be felt for years to come," Anderson said.
Throughout her time at CU Boulder, Eyeson has emerged again and again as a community leader, proactive scholar and connective force, leading her to be recognized as the spring 2023 Outstanding Undergraduate of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and Colorado Engineering Council Silver Medal finalist.
In her first year, Eyeson was invited to her first meeting of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).
"Dr. Tanya Ennis told me about NSBE, when I first visited CU," Eyeson said.
Ennis, the former director of the Broadening Opportunities through Leadership and Diversity(BOLD) Center and CU Boulder NSBE advisor, said she remembered meeting Eyeson.
"She was so shy and trying to understand how she would fit. I told her about NSBE and about BOLD, and I started seeing her in the center every day," Ennis said.
"Joining NSBE meant being part of something bigger than myself. It is a community of people who are passionate about engineering, science and ensuring that all voices are heard regardless of background," Eyeson said.
NSBE quickly became a large part of Eyeson's life, and it helped her learn about project management, leadership, networking and professionalism.
Throughout her time with NSBE, Eyeson has held a variety of roles including membership chair, vice president and interim president, among others. Beyond her current role as the vice president of CU NSBE, Eyeson is also active on the regional and national level of NSBE as the 22-23 Region VI vice chairperson and incoming 23-24 Region VI chairperson.
Region VI oversees 87 chapters with over 1,700 members across the western United States and abroad. She managed the board behind the 2022 Regional Leadership Conference in Beaverton, Oregon, and the 2022 Fall Regional Conference in Los Angeles, which attracted hundreds of members ranging from pre-collegiate to professional, across the western United States and abroad.
"NSBE has helped me grow as a leader and a role model for others. I never would have imagined so many underclassmen would come to me for advice. It has been so rewarding to help support people who are in a similar spot as I was years ago," she said.
Eyeson said she is grateful for the support she has had from the BOLD Center.
"I was seeking people who could relate to my experience as a Black woman in computer science. A lot of my friendships were made through BOLD and BOLD student societies like CU Women In Computing and NSBE. I have had the privilege to attend multiple conferences and volunteer among other great experiences. In the BOLD Center, we are all working together towards becoming tomorrow's engineers and scientists," Eyeson said.
She added that though students can feel like they are on their own, "There are other people, it's a matter of finding them. If Dr. Ennis hadn't invited me to that first NSBE meeting, I would never have been able to get involved as I have, and to extend that to students coming after me," she said.
Eyeson said that applying her skills beyond the classroom has been essential to her success.
In addition to being a Norlin and BOLD Scholar, Eyeson was nominated to become a National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholar through the BOLD Center.
This led her to being selected for the inaugural Google NACME Applied Machine Learning Intensive (AMLI), where over the course of eight weeks, Eyeson and her team developed a neural network to help align an AI agents actions with human norms and values.
"Elizabeths project was so impressive that it was open-sourced and highlighted as a featured project," said her advisor and mentor, University of Kentucky professor Corey Baker. "She constantly pushed herself to learn."
Eyeson said she applied to every research and internship opportunity she could find. One of these was the National Institute of Standards and Technology Professional Research Experience Program. When that opportunity was transitioned to online in summer 2020 due to the pandemic, Eyeson still persisted.
She became a published academic author with the national lab and continues to work for them today, developing software for their Public Safety Communications Research division as part of the Mission Critical Voice group.
Building on her success in AMLI, and her experiences from NIST and Autodesk, Eyeson recently completed her computer science capstone project.
She worked with her team and sponsor Enertiv to create a neural network to optimize the startup and shutdown of commercial HVAC systems and reduce stakeholders carbon footprints.
"When I think of Elizabeth, I think of consistent elevation," Ennis commented. "She would go to office hours with a list of questions and engage in learning discussions. Her attitude was very much towards consistently building upon her prior learning experiences. She refused to get stuck."
Eyeson said that throughout her work as a community leader and a scholar, she seeks places where she can apply her skills and grow at the same time. "If you see a problem, find the opportunity to tackle it. You never know, you may be the one to solve it," Eyeson said.
Eyeson plans to pursue a PhD in computer science at the University of California Los Angeles with a research focus at the intersection of healthcare and computation.
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Board Of Education To Consider Computer Science As A … – Honolulu Civil Beat
Legislators say the move would help students get lucrative jobs in STEM fields.
Computer science is on the way to becoming a new graduation requirement in Hawaii by the end of this decade as state legislators seek new ways to encourage homegrown technical skills.
Only 16% of all statewide enrolled students, K-12, were registered in computer science courses last year, according to an annual report from the Department of Education.
Concerned lawmakers, in response, recently passed House Bill 503, which requires the Board of Education to analyze and figure out ways to incorporate computer science as a graduation requirement no later than the 2030-2031 school year.
This initiative is important because it is about aligning marketplace needs with formalized curricula, said Rep. Justin Woodson, who introduced the bill. And thats something that you see in some of the highest performing public school systems globally.
Computer-based STEM occupations are growing at an exponentialrate, Woodson said. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that science, technology, engineering and math fields will result in slightly more than half a million new computer jobs over the 10-year period.
Not only will there be more job opportunities, the report projects, the median annual wage will be twice the median wage of all occupations.
High-paying jobs and natural affinity for our student population to learn about computer science, Woodson said. So its about creating opportunities, so our kids can succeed.
HB 503, currently waiting for consideration by the governor, will request the Board of Education and the Department of Education to work together and report back to the Legislature on whether computer science ultimately should be one of the main core requirements of the general student-body curriculum, and, if so, how to implement that change.
Jake Ishikawa, a junior at Kapolei High School, opposed this bill in written testimony, stating concerns about the lack of teachers and the addition of another required class, which he said would reduce the number of classes students actually want to attend.
There is a teacher shortage, Woodson said. But in the more pronounced areas where we need teachers, we have been successful in deploying strategies like providing differential pay.
Differential pay is an additional stipend thats combined with the base pay of teachers.
As of now, those receiving these payments are state-licensed teachers in special education, hard-to-staff locations, and in the Hawaiian language immersion program.
Woodson said the pay differentials have led to a 30% increase of teachers in certain areas, and he hopes for the differentials to be applied to computer science teachers as well.
The larger strategy is to continue to increase teachers compensation, Woodson said.
Teachers who dont get compensation in accordance with their experience and years working are more likely to leave the field, he said. But legislators have created salary amendments that have increased some instructors salaries as much as $30,000 in recent years.
We know anecdotally that teachers have said theyre staying in the profession because of that realignment of payment, he said.
If students end up feeling overwhelmed by this new requirement, they can look at existing requirements and swap out the classes in some manner that maintains overall quality controls on the education process, he added. But choosing to avoid computer science as a requirement, because some students dont want to take it, isnt a great option, either.
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Innovation Challenge winner Aaron Satko ’25 goes in search of the … – Today at Elon
Satko's Campus Conscious system, recycling plastic bottles into 3D printing filament linked to an online rewards app, won this year's Elon Innovation Challenge.
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Aaron Satko 25 is always looking for problems to solve.
When he encounters one automatic doors that dont work just right, cardboard shipping boxes that waste too much space he jots it down in a notebook he carries. Then his mind gets to work, roiling and churning it over, waiting for the spark of invention to ignite.
Learning of this years Elon Innovation Challenge focused on waste reduction his thoughts leapt to the enormous amount of trash created by our consumption of single-use plastic bottles. Globally, we use an estimated 1.2 million plastic bottles per minute with less than 9% of those recycled.
Satko, a computer science major from Lewisville, North Carolina, had heard of plastic bottles being recycled as 3D-printing filament. The real problem he wanted to solve was encouraging Elon students to toss their bottles into recycling bins. Taking inspiration from open-source designs, Satko devised the Campus Conscious PET-cycler system: a prototype that cuts and melts polyethylene terephthalate plastic bottles into into filament, paired with an app that incentivizes recycling by turning those bottles into reward points students can redeem on campus. The process reuses about 90% of the bottle, leaving only the base and screwtop.
PET plastic is one of the best for 3D printing because its strong and has high heat-resistance, Satko said. I didnt invent this process, but I upgraded some of the designs in my prototype, and the app adds a dimension that connects it with students.
The Elon Innovation Challenge is an annual competition sponsored by the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship that allows students to identify and work through innovative solutions for a specific problem. This years challenge joined with the Campus Race to Zero Waste initiative, a nationwide competition to inspire college campuses to seek ways to eliminate trash.
Satkos Campus Conscious initiative bested about 25 other entries, which included strategies to reduce waste in dining halls, increase composting, repurpose items and raise awareness of environmental issues.
I hate seeing trash everywhere, and I try to do my share of cleaning up when I see it. Ive always felt that way, and its why I wanted to participate in the challenge this year, Satko said. The Innovation Challenge is one of the best things about my college experience so far. I participated last year and its just a great thing. Im grateful to (Doherty Center Director) Alyssa Martina and the Doherty Center for offering this challenge.
Satkos grand prize included $2,500. Hes already invested some of those winnings into his eBay business refurbishing computers. He buys computers auctioned off by schools and universities and spends his weekends at home repairing and reselling them. The prize money afforded him new computer repair tools, and hes looking forward to putting into use the knowledge he continues to gain in computer science courses.
In the future, Satko hopes to parlay his computer science degree into invention and entrepreneurship.
I want to have a big idea and great invention one day. I think that would be great.
So, hes keeping that notebook handy, ready for inspiration to strike.
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Computer Scientist and Actress Justine Bateman Urges Action on AI Amid WGA Strike – Decrypt
As the WGA writers strike enters its third week, actress and computer scientist Justine Bateman posted a tweet thread detailing how artificial intelligence could disrupt the entertainment industryand what actors can do to protect themselves.
A.I. has to be [addressed] now or never. I believe this is the last time any labor action will be effective in our business, Bateman wrote. If we dont make strong rules now, they simply wont notice if we strike in three years, because at that point they wont need us.
Formed in 1954, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) is one of the largest unions in the entertainment industry, boasting over 15,000 members. With its membership off the job, most major productions have ground to a halt.
Bateman, best known for playing Mallory Keaton in the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties" alongside Michael J. Fox, has a degree in computer science and digital media management from UCLA. Bateman also took aim at the use of computer-generated images trained on actors' likenesses and voices that she said could be tripled and quadrupled booked.
Earlier this month, the popular generative A.I. image platform Midjourney released its latest version 5.1, making it easier to create visually stunning images and deep fakes with minimal effort.
Bateman encouraged actors to demand iron-clad protection against the use of their image and voice to protect their livelihood.
Demand it from [the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists] and do not accept any AMPTP proposal that does not have it, she wrote.
To prove the point, Bateman shared a tweet from Twitter user and A.I. blogger Lorenzo Green showing a video of what an A.I.-generated Lord of the Rings by director Wes Anderson would look like.
Since the launch of OpenAIs ChatGPT in November, the race to bring A.I. into the mainstream has many sounding the alarm about A.I.s potential takeover of the workforce.
The WGA, seeing the potential threat, included a proposal in its negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that blocked the use of A.I. to write or rewrite literary material, be used as source material, or train A.I. The AMPTP rejected the proposal, according to the WGA.
Training an A.I. program on an older [hit] TV series, and creating an additional season. Family Ties, for example, has 167 episodes. An A.I. program could easily be trained on this, and create an eighth season. We only shot seven, Bateman said.
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UCSC ranked number two on Wall Street Journal list for top public … – University of California, Santa Cruz
New rankings from the Wall Street Journal place UC Santa Cruz as the number two public school for high-paying jobs in engineering, just behind UC Berkeley, and the number nine public school for high-paying jobs in data science and software.
Baskin Engineering graduates leave UC Santa Cruz with the technical and professional skills to thrive in their careers, and these new rankings reflect just that, said Alexander Wolf, dean of the Baskin School of Engineering. Im proud of our diverse alumni who are currently shaping these dynamic industries, and look forward to seeing future generations of students embrace the success that awaits them.
UCSC graduates in engineering fields earn a $110,222 average yearly salary, which is a $20,048 premium over the median graduate in engineering. UCSC graduates in software earn a $119,458 average yearly salary, which is a $16,104 premium over the median graduate, and those in data science fields earn a $109,026 average yearly salary, a $8,703 premium over the median graduate.Students at the UCSC Baskin School of Engineering can study a variety of engineering disciplines across six departments, including highly ranked programs in computer science and engineering, robotics, applied mathematics, and computational media. Among UCSC students, students who majored in engineering report high salaries in their first jobs after college as compared to their peers, putting them on the path to social mobility. The computer science and engineering programs are very popular 2020 rankings from American Society for Engineering Education showed that UCSC awarded the fifth most total bachelor's degrees in computer science in the country.
Many of the Baskin Engineering programs emphasize learning the modern directions of the information technology industry, with a focus on areas such as big data and autonomous vehicles. An emphasis on experiential learning means that students are embedded within an active research environment with a focus on developing new technology for social good.
The rankings also reflect UC Santa Cruzs access and ties to Silicon Valley where Baskin Engineering graduates are in high demand. The UCSC Silicon Valley campus is a multidisciplinary hub for research and teaching relevant to the current tech and engineering industry, with programs in human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and more.
The Wall Street Journal gathered this data from a Burning Glass Institute analysis of experience and pay data from Lightcast, a labor-market data firm, and Glassdoor, a company-ratings website. For each college, an annual salary premium was calculated using the difference between the earnings of the schools graduates in their first 10 years after graduation and the median graduate in the field.
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3 ways teachers can navigate the evolving field of computer science – eSchool News
As recently as a decade or two ago, technology education consisted of typing, learning to draft emails, or doing a little work in a spreadsheet. Learning those skills may have been relegated to a business information class or weekly trips to a computer lab. Today, most students are expected to learn to code, and most states have coding requirementssome starting as early as kindergarten.
Thats a significant change in less than a generation. Computer science is a rapidly advancing field; educators have to make those changes if they are going to prepare their students for the modern world. Trying to teach a subject thats ever-changing might feel a little intimidating to some teachers, especially if they dont have a background in the field. Fortunately, the skills students learn in computer science are evergreen, and many of the changes within the field are manageable for the educators involved.
Here are three keys to preparing to teach this dynamic subject without feeling like the ground is constantly shifting under your feet.
Dont be intimidated by new technology. Its probably a lot like the old technology.
As our knowledge grows, technology advances, practices change, and programming languages fall out of favor in different industries. At any given time, different languages are in use for different purposes. Some industries rely heavily on Python, while others might program in JavaScript. As technology changes and grows, new needs emerge and new programming languages are developed or adopted to meet those needs.
Dr. Whitney Dove is the vice president of product for Ellipsis Education. She can be reached at wdove@ellipsiseducation.com.
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A better way to study ocean currents | MIT News | Massachusetts … – MIT News
To study ocean currents, scientists release GPS-tagged buoys in the ocean and record their velocities to reconstruct the currents that transport them. These buoy data are also used to identify divergences, which are areas where water rises up from below the surface or sinks beneath it.
By accurately predicting currents and pinpointing divergences, scientists can more precisely forecast the weather, approximate how oil will spread after a spill, or measure energy transfer in the ocean. A new model that incorporates machine learning makes more accurate predictions than conventional models do, a new study reports.
A multidisciplinary research team including computer scientists at MIT and oceanographers has found that a standard statistical model typically used on buoy data can struggle to accurately reconstruct currents or identify divergences because it makes unrealistic assumptions about the behavior of water.
The researchers developed a new model that incorporates knowledge from fluid dynamics to better reflect the physics at work in ocean currents. They show that their method, which only requires a small amount of additional computational expense, is more accurate at predicting currents and identifying divergences than the traditional model.
This new model could help oceanographers make more accurate estimates from buoy data, which would enable them to more effectively monitor the transportation of biomass (such as Sargassum seaweed), carbon, plastics, oil, and nutrients in the ocean. This information is also important for understanding and tracking climate change.
Our method captures the physical assumptions more appropriately and more accurately. In this case, we know a lot of the physics already. We are giving the model a little bit of that information so it can focus on learning the things that are important to us, like what are the currents away from the buoys, or what is this divergence and where is it happening? says senior author Tamara Broderick, an associate professor in MITs Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Brodericks co-authors include lead author Renato Berlinghieri, an electrical engineering and computer science graduate student; Brian L. Trippe, a postdoc at Columbia University; David R. Burt and Ryan Giordano, MIT postdocs; Kaushik Srinivasan, an assistant researcher in atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles; Tamay zgkmen, professor in the Department of Ocean Sciences at the University of Miami; and Junfei Xia, a graduate student at the University of Miami. The research will be presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning.
Diving into the data
Oceanographers use data on buoy velocity to predict ocean currents and identify divergences where water rises to the surface or sinks deeper.
To estimate currents and find divergences, oceanographers have used a machine-learning technique known as a Gaussian process, which can make predictions even when data are sparse. To work well in this case, the Gaussian process must make assumptions about the data to generate a prediction.
A standard way of applying a Gaussian process to oceans data assumes the latitude and longitude components of the current are unrelated. But this assumption isnt physically accurate. For instance, this existing model implies that a currents divergence and its vorticity (a whirling motion of fluid) operate on the same magnitude and length scales. Ocean scientists know this is not true, Broderick says. The previous model also assumes the frame of reference matters, which means fluid would behave differently in the latitude versus the longitude direction.
We were thinking we could address these problems with a model that incorporates the physics, she says.
They built a new model that uses what is known as a Helmholtz decomposition to accurately represent the principles of fluid dynamics. This method models an ocean current by breaking it down into a vorticity component (which captures the whirling motion) and a divergence component (which captures water rising or sinking).
In this way, they give the model some basic physics knowledge that it uses to make more accurate predictions.
This new model utilizes the same data as the old model. And while their method can be more computationally intensive, the researchers show that the additional cost is relatively small.
Buoyant performance
They evaluated the new model using synthetic and real ocean buoy data. Because the synthetic data were fabricated by the researchers, they could compare the models predictions to ground-truth currents and divergences. But simulation involves assumptions that may not reflect real life, so the researchers also tested their model using data captured by real buoys released in the Gulf of Mexico.
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In each case, their method demonstrated superior performance for both tasks, predicting currents and identifying divergences, when compared to the standard Gaussian process and another machine-learning approach that used a neural network. For example, in one simulation that included a vortex adjacent to an ocean current, the new method correctly predicted no divergence while the previous Gaussian process method and the neural network method both predicted a divergence with very high confidence.
The technique is also good at identifying vortices from a small set of buoys, Broderick adds.
Now that they have demonstrated the effectiveness of using a Helmholtz decomposition, the researchers want to incorporate a time element into their model, since currents can vary over time as well as space. In addition, they want to better capture how noise impacts the data, such as winds that sometimes affect buoy velocity. Separating that noise from the data could make their approach more accurate.
Our hope is to take this noisily observed field of velocities from the buoys, and then say what is the actual divergence and actual vorticity, and predict away from those buoys, and we think that our new technique will be helpful for this, she says.
The authors cleverly integrate known behaviors from fluid dynamics to model ocean currents in a flexible model, says Massimiliano Russo, an associate biostatistician at Brigham and Womens Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved with this work. The resulting approach retains the flexibility to model the nonlinearity in the currents but can also characterize phenomena such as vortices and connected currents that would only be noticed if the fluid dynamic structure is integrated into the model. This is an excellent example of where a flexible model can be substantially improved with a well thought and scientifically sound specification.
This research is supported, in part, by the Office of Naval Research, a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren:Have Courage. Trust Yourself. Give it a Try.Pace celebrates more than 3,700 graduates atUSTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
Standing before thousands of graduates and their supporters at Pace Universitys Commencement, alumnus Telfar Clemens 08 yesterday spoke of his path from a student finding his way in lower Manhattan to a celebrated fashion designer and founder of the global label Telfar.
But he didnt want to focus on the obvious.
They worked hard, Clemens said of his parents and members of his family who attended Pace. I worked hard. What has been so hard is not the work, but everything in between I didnt make it into the fashion industry. I made it out.
Speaking to roughly 15,000 people including 3,700 graduates at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, the Pace grad shared his reasons for attending Pace and memories of pursuing a business degree while following his passion for fashion and the subsequent path to building a global brand that is at the forefront of a revolution and has set a new standard.
Clemens, who received an honorary doctorate, was among many highlights throughout the day that included five ceremonies, student speakers, a food village, music, and lots of Commencement festivities. The day was highlighted by the conferral of over 4,000 degrees including 1,735 masters, which is the largest number in over five years, and roughly 300 students receiving dual degrees.
In addition, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, which recently earned the No. 1 ranking for Environmental Law by U.S. News & World Report, graduated 241 students, its largest class in the past five years.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Harvard Law Professor and legal historian Bruce H. Mann both received honorary degrees during that ceremony. Senator Warren shared stories of her early years out of law school and threaded her speech with a simple yet powerful message.
Be courageous, Warren said. That means trust yourself. Dont sell yourself short. Dont settle for work that you dont believe in. Dont assume that you cant make a difference
Have courage, she continued. Take a risk because our nationour worldneeds you. Have courage for another reason: Becauseand here is the amazing partfor all that you give, for all your risk, for all the scary stuff you take on and even for all the failures, you will receive far more than you give.
Trustee and alumnus Ivan G. Seidenberg 81, retired chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, addressed graduates of Paces Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems to mark the schools 40th anniversary. Pace also awarded Aldrin Enis, president of One Hundred Black Men of New York, with its Opportunitas in Action Award.
During the main ceremony, Pace President Marvin Krislov called this years class a remarkable group and noted some of the challenges they faced during their time in school such as the pandemic, climate challenges, mental health pressures, and other challenges around the world.
The problems of tomorrow will not be solved by the thinking of the past, President Krislov said. They will be solved by new people, with new ideas, and new ways of doing things. They will be solved by a new generation that is creative and resourceful and adaptive.Your generation was knocked down, and then you stood right back up. You know how to think on your feet, how to adjust on the fly, how to make the best of any situation. You know how to get to a goal like graduation, even through a once-in-a-century disruption.
Students celebrating this exciting achievement were a mix of undergraduate, graduate, law, and doctoral students, spanning a variety of disciplines and future careers, such as nurses and physician assistants, cybersecurity experts, lawyers, accountants, teachers, performers, and much more.
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Since 1906, Pace University has been transforming the lives of its diverse studentsacademically, professionally, and socioeconomically. With campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, Pace offers bachelor, master, and doctoral degree programs to 13,600 students in its College of Health Professions, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems.
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