Three writers – Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan share that parts of their works have been implemented in 196,640 books. All the data from these books was used to train NeMo to recreate written language.

After some time, the database of NeMo training books was removed due to reports that it was affected and violated copyrights.

The authors filed a class-action lawsuit against the organization in federal court in San Francisco on Friday. They report that NVIDIA’s removal of the book database makes it clear to them that the company acknowledges that using these resources infringes their copyright.

The writers are looking to see if there are other authors in the US whose copyrights have been infringed and affected in training NeMo to accurately recreate language models over the past 3 years.

In their class-action lawsuit, the authors state that the company uses the following works: Keene’s 2008 novel “Ghost Walk”, Nazemian’s 2019 novel “Like a Love Story”, and O’Nan’s 2007 novella – “Last Night at the Lobster”.

NVIDIA refused to comment on the case on Sunday. This case puts her in the middle of litigation brought by various writers who want their works protected from being used by an AI that creates new content based on their work.

Every year, the event brings together young people from different countries to present academic research projects. FISSION is organized by a select group of ACS students under the guidance of the school administration and Dr. Krasimira Chakurova, ACS physics teacher.

Participants are students from 5th to 12th grade, from different parts of Bulgaria and the world.

During the science fair, all students have the opportunity to submit projects in categories ranging from biomedical, biological and chemical sciences to ecology and environmental sciences, computer science, mathematics, physics and engineering.

Hotel accommodation is provided for all teams coming from outside of Sofia on the evening of April 12, and food and beverages are available for all participants and their supervisors during the event.

Each project is assessed by a panel of established scientists and experts. After the projects are carefully reviewed and evaluated, the jury awards students with “Best Project” Award or “Honorable Mention”Award in each category.

The event schedule includes campus tours, workshops and lectures for participants and their supervisors by guest speakers and scholars, and various networking opportunities.

The event is also open to visitors and guests on April 13, 2024.

Last year’s edition of FISSION was a huge success and was the first in-person edition since 2019. 104 students, together with their supervisors, presented a total of 55 projects, and many visitors had the opportunity to take a look at the projects and enjoy the event schedule.

This year, FISSION International Science Fair will once again welcome participants from all over the world and encourage them to inquire and inspire. The registration for the event continues to be open in February.

More information can be found on the FISSION website, as well as on Facebook and Instagram.

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Princeton University

Samsung Research America (SRA) has joined Princeton University‘s new NextG Corporate Affiliates program, reports Telecoms News. The program brings together industry and academia for the sake of research in 6G wireless networks and related technologies.

“The best academic research to help realise the promise of future wireless networks is informed by close interactions between faculty and industry technology leaders. Our NextG program aims to foster those deep collaborations around wireless technology, as well as policy, that are required to drive meaningful innovation and global leadership in an era of rapid change”, said Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.

The NextG initiative was launched last year at Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and aims to increasingly advance innovation in networking, sensing and other key areas that will be the foundation of next-generation data infrastructure.

“We encourage Princeton’s researchers to continue innovating and develop potentially disruptive 6G technologies,” said Dr Charlie Zhang, SVP at SRA.

With SRA chairing key 6G standardization groups, the company is now in a position to quickly translate Princeton’s insights into broader ecosystem developments.

With the new partnership, Samsung aims to take wireless networks into a new era in which 6G promises significantly higher speeds, lower latency and expanded opportunities for new mobile applications.

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Acad. Krasimir Atanasov

“IEEE’s mission includes recognizing the exceptional achievements of our members. Each year, the IEEE Fellow Committee conducts a thorough evaluation process and recommends a select group for elevation to IEEE Fellow status. This prestigious rank is awarded to less than 0.1% of our voting members annually,” stated the Institute.

IEEE stands as the world’s largest technical professional organization, committed to advancing technology for humanity’s benefit.
Academician Atanasov’s selection for this honor is in recognition of his significant contributions to the development and application of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. He plays a key role in the UNITE project at the Burgas University Center for Excellence, focusing on “Universities of Science, Informatics, and Technologies in the e-Society.” Additionally, he is a prominent member of the MIRACle project team, where the “Prof. Dr. Asen Zlatarov” University also holds a leading position.

This recognition marks the pinnacle of membership within IEEE, an organization globally trusted for its authoritative voice in the fields of engineering, computing, and technology information.

Born in Burgas in 1954, Academician Krasimir Atanasov is among the select few Bulgarian scientists who have earned two major doctoral degrees, one in technical sciences and the other in mathematical sciences.

Since 2007 CodeIT is held under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria – Rumen Radev with the support of numerous business and academic partners dedicated to the mission of supporting IT talents in the country and around the world.

The patrons of the first round are prof. Anastas Gerdzhikov, Rector of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Kliment Ohridski”; Prof. Maya Stoyanova, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and Dr. Antoan Tonev, Director of SMG “Paisii Hilendarski”.

All participants with a non-zero result will receive a prize – a T-shirt with the vision of the new season, and five participants in each of the 6 rounds will receive additional prizes on a draw provided by the sponsors – Cougar Gaming and Prestigio, as well as a special CodeIT sweatshirt.

Media partners of the competition are DevStyleR and B2B Media.

It’s no secret that in a world where technology is a driving force and an integral part of everyday life for everyone big and small, many of us are looking for help and support from none other than mobile apps that would only benefit anyone who needs them.

There are a number of these that could help students prepare for the long and difficult school year, and today we’ve chosen to bring you some of them – from math problem solvers and note-taking tools to book tracking programs and summary apps. And today we’ll share with you the top apps that can be of great use to students in the new school year, presented by TechCrunch.

Top 5 Most Useful Mobile Apps for Students

StoryShots
If you’re the kind of student where time is never enough, even to read a book, you might want to use StoryShots, a free learning app that provides book summaries in text, audio and video format.

StoryShots divides the book into small parts, providing the reader with a few paragraphs that summarize the most important points. The app can be useful for those who want to learn a topic in a timely manner, especially for upcoming exams or an approaching deadline. The app provides infographics, mind maps, presentations and short videos.

Essayist
Essayist is more suitable for students because it helps them in essay writing. The iOS app can automatically apply citation styles, including APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, and Harvard. Essayist also helps with in-text citation formatting, references, page titles, and cover pages, as well as page settings, such as font, font size, line spacing, alignment, page numbering, and more.

And that’s not all. Essayist has a reference management feature that allows students to include chapters from books, magazines, websites, and even movies. There are more than 25 types of references in total. Users can use Google Scholar to add references or copy and paste a URL.

Photomath
Photomath is an application for solving mathematical problems. Problems are scanned, and the app shows a step-by-step solution to teach students how to solve difficult equations. Users point their camera at a math problem (handwritten on paper or typed) and the app sends the image to cloud servers that analyze and determine the answer. There’s also an in-app calculator if users want to enter the question manually.

Bookly
Bookly is an app that helps track and manage users when they want to set reading goals. Users can set how many books they want to read in a month or a year and how much time they want to spend reading. They can also set an end date goal for each book so that students can more effectively meet deadlines and assignments.

The app has a timer that users can tap to see when they started reading for the day, and a countdown based on their goals. So if a user wants to take 20 minutes a day to read, Bookly will notify them when the time is up.

Peech
Peech is a reader that turns any text file, PDF, book or web article into audio. Did you know about the existence of such an app? The concept of a text-to-speech generator alone is enough to help a student who is overwhelmed with assignments. Moreover, the app can also be useful for people with dyslexia, low vision or other conditions that make reading difficult.

There are many ways to audition content, whether it’s copying and pasting text directly into the app, uploading files, embedding a URL, or even scanning a textbook with your phone’s camera. And the best part is that the app is available in 50 languages.

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Different Year
This school year, U.S. schools will have many good artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Bard, but many teachers remain skeptical about their usefulness and the potential they hold.

Although many argue how artificial intelligence would only make for more productive work and ticking off more tasks for the day, there are still people who worry that they could be replaced by it specifically.

This autumn, however, the picture is slightly different. Several educators have been quietly pushing for the creation of new artificial intelligence chatbots to offer teachers unlimited access to sometimes confusing and often paid peer-reviewed research on the topics that trouble them most.

Competition or support for teacher?
In June, the International Society for Technology in Education introduced Stretch AI, a tool built on content vetted by ISTE and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. ISTE made it available in beta form for select users. All of the chatbot’s content is geared toward educators, and it is trained solely on materials developed or approved by both organizations.

According to its creators, in about six months the tool will be able to review external, peer-reviewed research in education and produce “quite understandable and meaningful results” from peer-reviewed journals, says Richard Kulata, chief executive of ISTE.

“There is a big gap between what we know from research and what happens in practice,” Richard commented.

One of the main reasons for this, he says, is that most research is published in a format that is “completely inaccessible to teachers”.

As in its beta version, the new chatbot will indicate the sources used to generate each answer. It will also notify users when it doesn’t have enough information to give a reliable answer.

The developers are still in the early stages of deciding what academic journals to include. For now, they are experimenting with a few key scholarly articles, but will expand the chatbot’s reach if initial prototypes prove useful to educators.

Will it become a trend? 
However, ISTE is not the only organization aiming to make education research more widely accessible through chatbots. The Learning Agency, a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., is also testing an unnamed version of a bot designed to offer answers to education research queries.

According to Daniel Willingham, a UVA researcher, education-focused chatbots are useful when they not only include reliable results, but also put them in context.

For example, in response to a query about the evidence for phonics education, it should be noted that while the evidence is quite strong, many mediocre studies and “hyperbolized claims” supporting alternative methods obscure the overall picture – a delicate but accurate detail. One that a credible chatbot would do well to make.

How productive is it?
How productive will the new artificial intelligence educational tool be and will it replace the need for teachers? Questions that give no peace of mind to many who have chosen this profession and answers that only time could tell.

Today we present a list of .NET programming books whose authors are recognized experts, carefully selected by professional publishers, and highly motivated to write hundreds of pages to thoroughly cover a programming topic.

The .NET Books That Will Improve Your Skills

Murach’s ASP.NET Core MVC (2nd Edition)
This 2nd Edition of Murach’s ASP.NET Core MVC does a better job than ever of delivering the skills you need to develop websites using the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern with ASP.NET Core. If you know the basics of C#, you’ll quickly learn to code the way today’s top web professionals do. Each section features clear, beginner-friendly examples and easy-to-understand explanations that walk you through crucial skills, best practices, and helpful tips.

SQL Server Database Programming with Java: Concepts, Designs and Implementations
This textbook covers both fundamental and advanced Java database programming techniques for beginning and experienced students as well as programmers (courses related to database programming in Java with Apache NetBeans IDE 12 environment). A sample SQL Server 2019 Express database, CSE_DEPT, is created and implemented in all example projects throughout this textbook.

Over 40 real sample database programming projects are covered in this textbook with detailed illustrations and explanations to help students understand the key techniques and programming technologies. Chapters include homework and selected solutions to strengthen and improve students’ learning and understanding for topics they study in the classroom.

Software Architecture with C# 10 and .NET 6
Software architecture is the practice of implementing structures and systems that streamline the software development process and improve the quality of an app. This fully revised and expanded third edition, featuring the latest features of .NET 6 and C# 10, enables you to acquire the key skills, knowledge, and best practices required to become an effective software architect.

Software Architecture with C# 10 and .NET 6, Third Edition features new chapters that describe the importance of the software architect, microservices with ASP.NET Core, and analyzing the architectural aspects of the front-end in the applications, including the new approach of .NET MAUI. It also includes a new chapter focused on providing a short introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning using ML.NET, and updated chapters on Azure Kubernetes Service, EF Core, and Blazor.

Pro ASP.NET Core 6
Professional developers will produce leaner applications for the ASP.NET Core platform using the guidance in this best-selling book, now in its 9th edition and updated for ASP.NET Core for .NET 6. It contains detailed explanations of the ASP.NET Core platform and the application frameworks it supports. This cornerstone guide puts ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, extensible web applications. New features and capabilities such as MVC, Razor Pages, Blazor Server, and Blazor WebAssembly are covered, along with demonstrations of how they are applied.

ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform and provides a “host-agnostic” framework and a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility.

Professional C# and .NET
Experienced programmers making the transition to C# will benefit from the author’s in-depth explorations to create Web- and Windows applications using ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and WinUI using modern application patterns and new features offered by .NET including Microservices deployed to Docker images, GRPC, localization, asynchronous streaming, and much more.

The book also offers discussions of the extension of .NET to non-Microsoft platforms like OSX and Linux Explanations of the newest features in C#9, including support for record types, and enhanced support for tuples, pattern matching, and nullable reference types Integrating .NET applications with Microsoft Azure services such as Azure App Configuration, Azure Key Vault, Azure Functions, the Azure Active Directory, and others.

These learning accelerators cover some existing features in Microsoft 365, such as Reading Coach, but also some brand new features designed specifically for education, such as the new Math Coach feature.

Starting with the Reading Coach and Reading Progress features, these have been around for a while and, as the name suggests, help students learn to read more fluently and accurately. However, there are some new updates – comprehension questions will be added to Reading Progress so that teachers can check students’ understanding of the text they’ve been asked to read. Reading Coach will also appear in Immersive Reader across all platforms, including Word Online, OneNote, Minecraft Education, and more.

Microsoft is also working to improve information literacy, which means it wants to help students find reliable information. According to the company, fewer than 10% of students in seventh grade or above cannot distinguish between fact and opinion, and the ability to search for reliable information online is one of the main difficulties teachers and students face.

To address this problem, Microsoft has a feature called Search Coach in Teams for Education that helps students identify reliable sources of information and refine their search terms to find the information they want. It also integrates a feature called NewsGuard, which flags the reliability of news sources based on a variety of factors.

There will also be a feature called Search Progress that will allow teachers to better assess students’ ability to find reliable information.

But the features don’t end there. Teachers will soon also be able to take advantage of Speaker Progress, again with the aim of streamlining the learning process. Speaker Progress makes it easy to create assignments and assessments, as well as listen to automatically uploaded recordings of students and more.

Finally, there’s another brand new opportunity that’s focused on math. Math Coach and Math Progress are new features that will debut in the 2023-2024 school year to help students learn math more effectively. Math Coach will essentially break down each part of a problem, making it easier for students to understand the thought process behind a calculation.

In a recently published study, law professors at the University of Minnesota had ChatGPT prepare the answers for graduate exams in four courses at their school. The AI passed all four, but with an average grade of C+. In another recent article, Wharton School of Business professor Christian Terwish found that ChatGPT passed a business management exam with a grade of B to B-. You wouldn’t want to use technology to impress academics, then.

The research teams found that artificial intelligence is inaccurate to say the least. A group from the University of Minnesota noted that ChatGPT is good at dealing with “basic legal rules and laws” and summarizing doctrines, but struggles when trying to point out issues related to a case. Tervish said the generator is “amazing” at simple operations management and process analysis questions, but cannot handle advanced process and reasoning questions unique to humans. He has even made mistakes with 6th grade level math.

There is room for improvement. The Minnesota professors said they did not tailor the text-generation prompts to specific courses or questions and thought students could get better results with customization. ChatGPT couldn’t handle an exam or essay on its own, but a cheater could make the system generate rough answers and refine them.

Study groups still think ChatGPT could have a place in the classroom. Educators could train students how to rely on AI in the workplace or even use it to write and grade exams.