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Exploring How Uncertainty Motivates Our Actions in Epidemics
announcements faculty sociology
In an epidemic, we often focus on three staple metrics: Who does or doesn’t have the disease, the rate at which people are contracting the disease, an...
Why UChicago’s atomic village mattered beyond its scientific discoveries
faculty political science announcements
John Mark Hansen explores why the researchers at the school’s Metallurgical Laboratory were able to grapple with the moral dilemmas around atomic scie...
New research shows how human-aware AI helps us accelerate scientific discoveries
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"It's about changing the framing of AI from artificial intelligence to radically augmented intelligence.” A new study explores how artificial intel...
New research shows brain activity travels between a small number of states based on what we are thinking and paying attention to
psychology faculty student announcements
The brain state optimal for focus depends on the task, according to a paper from the Cognition, Attention, and Brain LabBy Sarah SteimerUsing function...