Science And TechnologyProfessors Trevor Pinch and Michael Lynch have been among the many recipients of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2017 Infrastructure Award, given to editors of the Handbooks for Science and Technology Studies. In his acceptance of this award on behalf of all the recipients (1977-2017), Edward J. Hacket thanked the society for his or her recognition (see excerpt below).

In the case of China, Joseph Needham, a leading scholar at Cambridge, made it his life’s work to doc China’s historical past of science and know-how in over 30 volumes. By the time he died at age 90, his works had reworked the research of China ceaselessly. The Needham Foundation has continued this monumental work, and has been increasing the sequence with new volumes. Today, each analysis library on China, and each major library on science and historical past, has the Needham collection as vital reference. Every severe …

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This venture aims to arrange a 2-day workshop within the margins of EC1 2018 to boost consciousness among APEC member economies in the usage of fashionable know-how and the applying of worldwide to strengthen contract administration, pre-dispute / pre-escalation processes to stop disputes, dispute decision and enforcement in cross-border industrial transactions by their companies (together with MSMEs). The project can even build the capability of member economies on what sensible contracts” are, the concerns in their creation and …

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Both deep reinforcement learning and deep neural networks, which the strategy exploits, were pioneered by researchers working at Canadian universities. The country’s authorities is now investing in large efforts to spur extra AI research. Google, DeepMind, Facebook and others have also opened research facilities in Toronto, Montreal, Alberta, and elsewhere in the country. One issue on this pattern is the welcoming angle of the Canadian authorities to immigrants. Vicarious developed what it calls a recursive cortical network (RCN) that can generalize beyond what …

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