By Eugene Barsky on August 9, 2012
Arvind Gupta, the CEO & Scientific Director of Mitacs and professor at UBC Department of Computer Science, is the recipient of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Read more here – http://thelinkpaper.ca/?p=18212
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By Kevin Lindstrom on May 18, 2012
The Library has upgraded its Scifinder Scholar subscription to the Academic Unlimited Access Program. This means that you have 24/7 access to Scifinder regardless of the number of users. Regards Kevin Lindstrom Science & Engineering Reference Librarian
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By Eugene Barsky on November 1, 2011
Canada is #7… From the Essential Science Indicators database from Thomson Reuters. Top 20 Nations in Mathematics; January 1, 2001-June 30, 2011
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By Eugene Barsky on September 20, 2011
courtesy of “Fantasy on high”.
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By Aleteia Greenwood on August 12, 2011
A team of scientists is investigating the ‘usefulness of music in science and math education’, and have created a website, with the help of an NSF grant, that includes a database of songs about engineering, math and science. Sing About Science & Math: songs for teaching, learning and fun My favourites: Graphene – the Musical [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on June 15, 2011
UBC mathematician Michael Ward has been awarded the premier research prize by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society. The CAIMS Research Prize recognizes innovative and exceptional research contributions in an emerging area of applied or industrial mathematics. The citation recognizes Ward’s significant successful combination of singular perturbation techniques and numerical methods to analyze boundary-value [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on March 14, 2011
The Chicago Tribune (3/14, Ford) reports that “Monday is Pi Day,” in honor of “the number that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter” and “starts with 3.14159. Thus, March 14, or 3/14, for Pi Day.” The celebration started in San Francisco in 1989 and “has spread around the world, and math [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on December 20, 2010
A very interesting read in the last week’s Science – http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6011/1600.full?rss=1 The first explorations of the Google Books data are now on display in a study published online this week by Science (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1199644). The researchers have revealed 500,000 English words missed by all dictionaries, tracked the rise and fall of ideologies and famous people, and, [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on December 16, 2010
A very interesting read from the NYT – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/science/23babylon.html?src=me&ref=general We have hundreds of books about the history of math – http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?subject=Mathematics–History. in the library, take a look…
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By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010
Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]
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