I wonder which industries have the most vs least
number of computer scientists in them.
In fact, CERN also employs quite
a number of computer scientists.
Not exact matches
Scientists from the University
of Melbourne in Australia used a
computer program to determine the
number of men and women authors listed on more than 10 million academic papers in nearly 5,000 academic journals and about 120 arXiv.org subcategories, published from 2002 to 2016.
By combining a large
number of neuron - imitating skyrmions, the thinking goes,
scientists could create a
computer that operates something like a brain.
And the good news is that boosting the
number of rocket
scientists along with mathematicians, engineers and
computer designers is not rocket science.
While this certainly sounds like good news, it is in fact «definitely misleading, for a
number of reasons,» writes University
of California, Davis,
computer scientist Norman Matloff, who has written extensively about tech - industry employment, in his Upon Closer Inspection blog.
The system goes through a search process to optimize settings such as the
number of processors in use, says Anant Agarwal, the MIT
computer scientist who heads the project.
Strength in
Numbers Druker and a growing
number of scientists believe that amassing and deciphering this torrent
of data requires the same open - source ethos that
computer programmers have embraced to revolutionize software development.
Theoretical
computer scientists measure algorithms» running times not in seconds or hours, but in the
number of operations required, relative to the
number of elements being manipulated.
With an advance that one cryptography expert called a «masterpiece,» University
of Texas at Austin
computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random
numbers, a breakthrough that could be used to encrypt data, make electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls and more accurately simulate complex systems such as Earth's climate.
Sebastian Thrun +,
Computer scientist 25,200 followers @SebastianThrun Citations: 57,110 K - index: 17 Total
number of tweets: 185 Stanford University, United States
Any clouds that form scatter laser light; this scattering is then detected and recorded by
computers, which display the results — the size,
number, and composition
of cloud particles — for
scientists outside the chamber.
Bob Metcalfe,
Computer scientist 16,400 followers @BobMetcalfe Citations: 424 K - index: 55 Total
number of tweets: 16,100 University
of Texas, Austin, United States
Noting that the timing
of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate
scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute
of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used
computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high
numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.
Computer scientists have come up with an algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any
number of people
Two young
computer scientists have figured out how to fairly divide cake among any
number of people, setting to rest a problem mathematicians have struggled with for decades.
Jack Dongarra, a
computer scientist at the University
of Tennessee, has been tracking the progress
of the world's best
number - crunching machines since 1993.
To create the image above,
computer scientist Michael Towsey
of the Queensland University
of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, assigned colors to three acoustic indices —
numbers representing characteristics
of a recording, such as the timing and frequencies
of sounds present.
That was the creation
of Stanford
computer scientist Donald Knuth, now retired, who wrote a kooky little novella about the
numbers after hearing Conway describe them in an informal talk.
Robert Metcalfe,
Computer scientist 16,600 followers @BobMetcalfe Citations: 5,251 K - index: 25 Total
number of tweets: 16,300 University
of Texas, Austin, United States
Toshiyuki Masui,
Computer scientist 122,000 followers @masui Citations: 3,338 K - index: 210 Total
number of tweets: 29,900 Keio University, Japan
To narrow down the
number of chemical compounds that could be potential drug candidates,
scientists utilize
computer models that can predict how a particular chemical compound might interact with a biological target
of interest — for example, a key protein that might be involved with a disease process.
Three
computer scientists at the Indian Institute
of Technology in Kanpur have found a provably efficient algorithm for testing primes (whole
numbers evenly divisible only be themselves and 1).
By allowing and encouraging society's message to girls that they are bad at these subjects, we're drastically reducing the
number of our potential doctors, engineers, designers and
computer scientists.
Roll - up
computer screens and other flexible electronics are getting closer to reality as
scientists improve upon a growing
number of components that can bend and stretch.
Following by only five years on the heels
of the story
of Ada Lovelace — and Ada's belief in the power
of numbers to manipulate machines so they can, for example, create repeatable patterns and make music — the film Teknolust (2002) provides a visual glut
of the ravishing Swinton playing cyborg triplets — Ruby, Marine, and Olive — as well as playing the role
of the
computer scientist Rosetta Stone who invents them.
A large
number of US
scientists (to our direct knowledge: engineers, biologists,
computer scientists and geologists) received a package in the mail this week.
That also applies the large
number of social
scientists,
computer programmers, engineers, etc., without any specialist knowledge on this problem.
«One
of the results that surprised us all was the
number of computer simulations that indicated a temporary halt to the loss
of the ice,» study researcher Jennifer Kay, a
scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), said in a statement.
, according to NASA
scientists: «Coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends» — Excuse
number 10 for global warming «pause» or «standstill» — NASA's Gavin Schmidt & colleagues finds «that a combination
of factors, by coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends in the real world after about 1992» — Latest excuse for global temperature standstill mocked by skeptics: «Apparently, if you go back and rework all the forcings, taking into account new data estimates (add half a bottle
of post-hoc figures) and «reanalyses»
of old data (add a tablespoon
of computer simulation) you can bridge the gap and explain away the pause.»
Yet it is not the case that even «most»
scientists at the IPCC are climate
scientists, but exactly the «large
number of social
scientists,
computer programmers, engineers, etc., without any specialist knowledge on this problem» about whom Dressler complains.
Instead
of using 120 years
of history to calculate the average
number of storms each year, RMS used the
scientists» work as the basis for a new crystal ball, a
computer model that would estimate storms for the next five years.
Scientists were developing a rich variety
of computer models, for there were many ways to slice up the total
number of arithmetic operations that a
computer could run through in whatever time you could afford to pay for.
Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy - protecting power
of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy
of individuals in large databases by deleting information like names and social security
numbers.
A hackathon is an event, typically lasting 24 - 48 hours, in which a large
number of people (software programmers, user experience designers, data
scientists, project managers, and subject matter experts) meet to engage in competitive collaborative
computer programming around a specific set
of challenges.