Category: Education

While the debate regarding how much screen time is appropriate for children rages on among educators, psychologists, and parents, it’s another emerging technology in the form of artificial intelligence and machine learning that is beginning to alter education tools and institutions and changing what the future might look like in education. It is expected that artificial intelligence in U.S. Education will grow by 47.5% from 2017-2021 according to the Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education Sector report. Even though  the most experts believe the critical presence of teachers is irreplaceable, there will be many changes…

For engineers developing new materials or protective coatings, there are billions of different possibilities to sort through. Lab tests or even detailed computer simulations to determine their exact properties, such as toughness, can take hours, days, or more for each variation. Now, a new artificial intelligence-based approach developed at MIT could reduce that to a matter of milliseconds, making it practical to screen vast arrays of candidate materials. The system, which MIT researchers hope could be used to develop an stronger protective coatings or structural materials — for example, to…

As has been the case with every industry that the magic hand of Information Technology (IT) has touched, education too, is undergoing a tumultuous revolution. It is one of the fastest growing industries in recent times thanks to IT. The first & foremost aspect of this revolution is the ‘access’. The Internet has made so much information available at the simple click of a button. The old brick and mortar situation where at any given point of time the ‘guru’ knows more than the ‘sishya’ is a thing of the past….

The convergence of mind and matter, the coming together of digital and material sciences lies at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution. From search algorithms to self driving cars, artificial intelligence is everywhere. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that enables machines to work and think like humans. Generally viewed as the simulation of human intelligence by machines, the AI comprises of learning, reasoning, problem solving, planning and self correction. Machines are increasingly going beyond the physical repetitive work and include planning, strategising and decision making…

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is an orchestration of computers and physical systems. CPS combines various models including engineering and environmental, civil, electrical, biomedical, chemical with methods of computer science. However, these models and methods do not combine easily so, CPS consequently constitutes a new engineering branch, which demands its own models and methods. The “cyber-physical systems” word emerged during 2006 and was coined by Helen Gill at the National Science Foundation in the United States. Another related term “cyberspace” is attributed to William Gibson, who used the term in the…

India Science Wire Male infertility in India is very high. It is generally due to low production and motility of sperm, abnormal shape of sperm or complete absence of it. Now a group of Indian scientists have found underlying genetic factors for infertility among Indian men. They hope this knowledge could help them develop a genetic test for male infertility in near future.It is known that Y chromosome has several genes that play a role in production of sperms. Any deletion of genes on Y chromosome causes diseases of testes…