Column by William Watson, professor of economics.
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Published on: 13 Sep 2016
Le 11 septembre rappelle de douloureux souvenirs au Saguen茅en Bruno Tremblay. Il y a exactement 15 ans, le professeur-chercheur en sciences atmosph茅riques et oc茅anographiques vivait la terrible attaque terroriste de l'int茅rieur.
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Published on: 12 Sep 2016
Op-ed by听Jonathan Sterne,听professor of communication studies.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Article covering research by Moshe Szyf, molecular biologist and Michael Meaney, neurobiologist, on epigenetic changes from the environment that are written into our DNA, and then passed down to the next generation.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Un regroupement de chercheurs internationaux semble avoir trouv茅 un m茅dicament qui pourrait retarder de trois ou quatre ans le d茅veloppement de la maladie d'Alzheimer chez les gens qui sont au stade l茅ger. Catherine Perrin parle de cette perc茅e m茅dicale avec le sp茅cialiste Serge Gauthier, de l'Institut Douglas.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Chronique de Ma茂a Korotkina, 脡cole d'茅ducation permanente.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Starting this month, students from five faculties (arts, science, engineering, music, and agriculture and environmental sciences) can pursue minors in entrepreneurship, with finance, accounting, marketing and other business fundamentals taught by professors from the Desautels Faculty of Management.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Karl Moore of 香蕉视频 in Montreal, who has asked over 200 CEOs about introversion on the radio show he hosts, says that introverts who make it to the top usually learn how to behave like extroverts for some of the time.听
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Article d鈥檕pinion par Robert Whitley, Professeur adjoint au d茅partement de psychiatrie.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
鈥淚t gives you the time to actually sit down in front of something that first attracted your eye so that you understand what was the detail that may you want to sit down and sketch.鈥澨�Maureen DeCarbonniers, architecture student.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
鈥淓xperimental clinical trials would provide the most definitive proof on any cause-and-effect relation between medical cannabis and reduced opioid use.鈥澨�Mark Ware, director of clinical research at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit.
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Published on: 9 Sep 2016
Yesterday (September 6, 2016)听saw the launch of a new book by Cathy O'Neil with the provactive听title听Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. O'Neil holds a听Ph.D. from Harvard in Math and was a听tenure-track math听professor until 2007, when she听quit academia to join听Wall Street. That fledging second career came to an end just a year later听with the Financial Crisis, after which O'Neil again changed careers and became a data scientist.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2016
The August 24 episode of听"Babbage", a听podcast from The Economist听about science and technology news, reports on an worrisome听new Russian web-site, FindFace.ru. This website allows you to input a picture of a face and do a search for that person, or someone who looks like that person,听on VK.com, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. The website boasts of a 70% accuracy rate.
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Published on: 25 Aug 2016
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming听more and more integrated in our daily lives: AI agents听might听decide if you get a bank loan, or if your job application will ever reach听human eyes. Not everyone is comfortable with this trend, since听we don't always know exactly how the AI comes to its decision. AI learns from existing data to predict future data, but its inner workings can be a mystery听even to the AI's programmers. That's a problem if the AI is making life or death decisions, as it would in missile systems or unmanned drones.
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Published on: 18 Aug 2016
There is a dark corner of the Internet where hackers sell their software. The process unfolds in three steps.
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Published on: 10 Aug 2016
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