Professor and Chair - Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA - Norfolk, VA
Norfolk, VA, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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'one-Size-Fits-All’ Threshold For P Values Under Fire
Researchers are at odds over when to dub a discovery 'significant'.
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China's Quest to Become a Space Science Superpower
Time seems to move faster at the National Space Science Center on the outskirts of Beijing.
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Metrology Is Key to Reproducing Results
Imagine you are a policymaker who needs to know how much carbon is stored in the South American forest.
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Information Technology: A Digital Genius at Play
The US mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, whose life spanned the tumultuous, technologically explosive twentieth century, is often called the...
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Image Doctoring Must Be Halted
Seven years ago, a cover of The Economist showed Barack Obama, head down on a Louisiana beach in front of an oil rig—the picture of lonely despair.
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AI Summit Aims to Help World's Poorest
In the world's wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving...
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Earth-Observing Companies Push For More-Advanced Science Satellites
Never have so many private eyes looked down at Earth.
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Biology Needs More Staff Scientists
Most research institutions are essentially collections of independent laboratories, each run by principal investigators who head a team of trainees.
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Track How Technology Is Transforming Work
Advances in technology pose huge challenges for jobs. Productivity levels have never been higher in the United States, for example, but income for the bottom 50...
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The Diy Electronics Transforming Research
A research subject watches a brush slowly stroking a rubber hand on a table in front of her, while her own hand—hidden from view—experiences the same stimulation...
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The Internet of Things Comes to the Lab
Out of town for the US 4 July holiday, Kyle Turner got news that no lab manager wants to hear: his freezer was dying.
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Rumours Swirl About Trump's Science Adviser Pick
US President Donald Trump has met with two rumoured front-runners for the role of White House science adviser.
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Peaceful European nion Starts to Fund Military Research
Faced with a changing world order and buffeted by a slew of political crises and terrorist attacks, the historically civilian European Union is bolstering its military...
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Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival
One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...
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Plant-Genome Hackers Seek Better Ways to Produce Customized Crops
When crop engineers from around the world gathered in London in late October, their research goals were ambitious: to make rice that uses water more efficiently...
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The Power of Prediction Markets
It was a great way to mix science with gambling, says Anna Dreber.
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There Is a Blind Spot in AI Research
This week, the White House published its report on the future of artificial intelligence (AI)—a product of four workshops held between May and July 2016 in Seattle...
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Why Big Pharma Wants to Collect 2 Million Genomes
Five months after announcing its intentions to gather genome sequences from 2 million people, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has selected geneticist David Goldstein...
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Deep-Sea Microbes, Simple Medical Diagnostic Tools and Complex Computing Win 2016 Macarthur 'genius Grants'
Victoria Orphan, a geobiologist and explorer of marine life on the sea floor, is one of eight scientists to win a 'genius grant' this year from the philanthropic...
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Titanic Clash Over Crispr Patents Turns Ugly
Geneticist George Church has pioneered methods for sequencing and altering genomes.
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