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A Johns Hopkins professor's guide to infinity
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (345+ words) Credit: Lidiia Moor / Getty Images "The audience is anyone who likes math," he says. "You don't need calculus, just a memory of high school math. If you remember that, the book should be accessible." Part of the book's charm lies…...
Introduction to R for Absolute Beginners
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (185+ words) This workshop is for people who want to learn this data analysis tool but have little or no experience in any programming languages. The first half of this three-hour workshop will focus on some basic concepts of coding, and the…...
Data Science for Social Good Fellowship comes to Johns Hopkins
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (353+ words) The Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence will host graduate students from across the country to deploy data science for social impact ... By Evan Serpick / Published Feb 19, 2026 This summer, Johns Hopkins will host a graduate student fellowship designed to prepare emerging…...
Reshaping and Joining Data in R with dplyr
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (151+ words) Join Johns Hopkins Data Services for this workshop and you will learn to use several functions in dplyr to manipulate data for the first half of the workshop. For the second part of this workshop, you will learn the join…...
Small changes make some AI systems more brain-like than others
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (322+ words) Credit: Macrovector / Getty Images Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University. The findings, published in Nature…...
How machine learning can help optimize treatment for septic shock
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (317+ words) Credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University A multi-institutional research team has demonstrated how AI and machine learning can optimize therapy selection and dosing for septic shock, a life-threatening complication that is the leading cause of hospital deaths. The team includes…...
Long division | Hub
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (345+ words) But the discipline of mathematics research was in crisis in the first decades of the 20th century. The nature of proof was in flux. Logical inconsistencies abounded. What the heck was this "infinity" ... By Richard Brown / Published Fall 2025 For someone outside…...
Computer scientist Mark Dredze named director of Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (362+ words) Mark Dredze, a member of Johns Hopkins University's computer science faculty since 2009 and a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence for language analysis to public health and medicine, has been named the inaugural director of the university's Data Science…...
AI lab assistant predicts material properties in seconds
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (313+ words) A Johns Hopkins University engineer has developed a specialized AI tool that could do for materials scientists what ChatGPT has done for coders and writers. The new system, called ChatGPT Materials Explorer, or CME, could speed the discovery of everything…...
AI fares better than doctors at predicting deadly complications after surgery
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (597+ words) A new artificial intelligence model found previously undetected signals in routine heart tests that strongly predict which patients will suffer potentially deadly complications after surgery. The model significantly outperformed risk scores currently relied upon by doctors. The federally funded work…...