The leadership of Rensselaer faculty in Web science, Big Data, artificial intelligence, and other research areas uniquely situates the university to help expand Watson's abilities.
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The school is strong in Web science, big data and artificial intelligence, making it a good fit for the first deployment of Watson in an academic institution.
Using Topsy as the harvesting tool, TweetLevel applies a considerable amount of research from the work at the Web Science team at the University of Southampton led by Professor Dame Wendy Hall of the Web Sciences Institute.
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So much for the new sort of massively collaborative, Web-friendly science this was all supposed to be an example of.
You zoom around in this rich, icon-filled space and call up digital photos, Web pages, science projects or PowerPoint presentations.
The Khan Academy was founded in 2008 by a MIT-grad hedge fund analyst Salman Khan after he began recording web tutorials on math and science for his younger cousins and uploading them to YouTube.
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ScienceBlogs, the blog network run by privately held Seed Media, which also publishes the eponymous magazine, is one of the best places to find good science writing on the Web.
Udacity offers 11 STEM courses like "Introduction to Physics, " "Intro to Computer Science, " and "Web Application Engineering" -- all free.
The web's links now encompass computer-science technical reports, folk-song lyrics, economic statistics from America's Department of Commerce, tarot cards, satellite weather photographs, film reviews, legal databases, the Bible, library catalogues, literary magazines and more.
The KAUST Library emphasizes support for "e-science" through its digital repository, web-based services, data curation, and full exploitation of the University's extraordinary IT infrastructure.
The science is achieved through measurement and optimization tools that only strong Web analytics can provide.
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Created by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, the institute has announced support from the Omidyar Network and from the World Bank, to help collect evidence globally on the benefits of open data and train senior people who will lead open data initiatives in developing countries.
Almost everywhere you look, in the arts, science, politics, justice, music and entertainment, the modest video web sharing site that Chad Hurley and Steve Chen began in 2005 has shaped how we tell stories, and how we see and hear each other.
Charles McClure, a professor of information science at Florida State University and who is regarded as an expert on federal Web sites, said he's heard that before.
The latter is using the web service to capture and store images and metadata collected from the Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Science Laboratory missions.
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Unlike other challenges released by Overthewire, Natas focuses exclusively on exploiting web security bugs in servers, according to its creator, Steven Van Acker, a computer science graduate student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
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What's more, some of the pursuits of these venture philanthropists seem more like self-serving science projects: Never mind feeding the poor, let's wire up schools for Web surfing.
Applied Marketing Science of Waltham, Massachusetts is working with MIT's Sloan School of Management on a Web tool that turns idea-generation into a challenging game, where players are rewarded for building on the suggestions of others and earn points that translate into cash or prizes.
Dedicated fans of the science fiction series Roswell, about teens who are descended from aliens, banded together to launch a Web campaign.
Systems integration company Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego offers a product called Open Source Monitoring that scans the Web, newsgroups, Listservs and any other public forums for names and trademarks.
Andy Tatem, a reader in the Geology and Environmental Science department at the University of Southampton is the developer of vbd-air.com, a web tool developed for the Transportation Research Board to help track the spread of mosquito-transmitted illnesses via air travel.
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