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Matthew, an engineering student at the University of Washington, helped her create Web sites for these projects, but all of D’Asaro’s initiatives have been self-directed. Her father, an oceanographer, and her mother, a former computer technician, have played mostly supporting roles.
This is the first useful quantum information system to be developed. Theoretically, a super-computer could perform similar functions, but even a very large, complex computer would only be able to handle information of about 17 atoms.
Baseball is different. While in most sports the actions made are straightforward to call, such as players keeping their feet inbounds or shots going in before the buzzer sounds, every single play in baseball requires an umpire’s personal call: Ball or strike, safe or out. While baseball...
Does it matter if Major League Baseball adopts a computer system to call its balls and strikes? While this could bring us closer to a fairer, purer game, it may—more importantly—prove to elucidate our society’s opinion on the fallibility of humans...
And the Chinese government responds to that pressure in some intriguing ways. It insists that primary-school teachers in math and science have degrees in those subjects. (Less than half of eighth-grade math teachers in the U.S. majored in math.) There is a "master teacher" program nationwide that provides...