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Open-Source Intelligence Advances Thanks to Technology

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The August 7th issue of “The Economist” has an editorial and a feature article about the advances of open-source intelligence capabilities once reserved for superpowers. Open-source intelligence, also known as OSINT, is not a recent development. However, advances in technology have increased the opportunities for citizens not employed by an intelligence agency to find and disclose information that governments might want to remain classified. […]

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Google Announces Plans to Further Improve Its Search Engine with MUM

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Financial Times writer Richard Waters has reported recently announced changes to Google’s search engine. Google says that its multitask unified model (MUM) is a tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and designed to better answer context-related questions. Pandu Nayak, the Google researcher in charge of MUM, explained in an interview that the targeted outcome of using the tool is to meet “fuzzy information needs” by allowing users to input a single question, rather than a sequence of questions designed to narrow down the field of potential answers. […]

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Building an Applied Science to Support Working Learners

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In this week’s edition of “The Job” (an Open Campus newsletter written by Paul Fain), I read about a very broad proposal to create an applied science to support working learners. The proposal was launched by Stanford University and the National Science Foundation (NSF). […]

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National Science Foundation Expands Funding for AI Institutes

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I recently learned about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institutes established through funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its partners. According to the National Science Foundation website, these Institutes are the only U.S. government-funded artificial intelligence initiatives outside of the Department of Defense. […]

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Are High Costs and Student Debt for Dental School Justified?

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A recent trip to a dentist generated a discussion about my blog and articles that I wrote about the high cost of medical school and law school. The dentist asked me if I had looked at the amount of debt that dentists incur for dental school. He said that the amounts that recent dental school graduates borrow are outrageous. […]

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Work Disrupted: Analyzing and Planning the Future of Work

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As someone with years of experience working with technology and observing its impact on jobs, I read many new books that shed various perspectives on the changing dynamics of work, now and in the future. Jeff Schwartz, founding partner of Deloitte Consulting’s U.S. Future of Work practice, did not necessarily present anything new to me about the future of work in his book, “Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work.” However, the organization of the book into three parts with the themes of “Finding Opportunity,” “Building Long-Term Resilience,” and “Playbooks for Growth” make it an excellent resource for many managers, executives, and policymakers as they plan for the future of work. […]

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Here We Go Again: The Urgent Need to Get COVID-19 Shots

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As the increase in infections, hospitalizations, and deaths from the Delta variant of COVID-19 have ramped up over the past six weeks, it’s clear this pandemic will continue until we are able to reach herd immunity through vaccinations. The stories of sickness and death are horrendous. What’s even worse is that most of the people who are getting sick are unvaccinated. There’s no excuse for ignoring the science, none whatsoever. […]

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The Debt Trap and the National Student Loan Catastrophe

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When I heard about Josh Mitchell’s soon-to-be-published book about college student debt, “The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe,” I pre-ordered a copy. Recently, I read an excerpt from the book in The Atlantic and wrote about it. His book arrived yesterday and like the excerpt, I could not put it down until I had finished reading it. […]

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The Massive and Terrible Financial Toll of Student Loan Debt

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Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell has an excerpt from his upcoming book, “The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe,” in this week’s The Atlantic. […]

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College Tuition: What’s A Reasonable Amount to Borrow?

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It’s important to have affordable college options. It’s equally important for everyone who’s capable of completing college to be able to attend college. It’s also natural based on the first two sentences to ask, “What should college tuition cost?” […]

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Subjects of Interest

Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

The Future of Work

Workforce

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