Entropy
Don Johnson
Shannon showed the power of probabilistic models for symbolic-valued signals. The dey quantity that characterizes such a signal is the entropy of its alphabet.
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Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design
May 21, 2011 - October 21, 2012: This exhibition highlights Collab’s gifts from the last four decades,
celebrating the organization’s contributions to the Museum as well as presenting a chronological overview of modern and contemporary design in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
More Politics Means More Conflict
NPR
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Careers in computing - sector 'hot' topics
Three graduate recruiters from IBM UK, ATOS UK and BSkyB talk about the key issues facing the IT sector.
Reconciliation in Politics? On The Meaning of Justice in the Wake Of Massive Injustice
Fall 2012 Professors for Lunch Series, sponsored by Notre Dame's Tocqueville Program for Inquiry Into Religion and American Public Life, in partnership with the Office for Undergraduate Studies and the Dean's Fellows.
Notre Dame Professor Daniel Philpott, discussed his book Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford University Press), on Friday, August 31, 2012 at noon in the Oak Room at the South Dining Hall on the campus of The University of Notre Dame.
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How to console oneself and others - Professor Han Baltussen
Professor Han Baltussen presents the 2012 Classics & Ancient History Lecture 'How to console oneself and others: ancient and modern perspectives on managing grief'.
He considers the ways in which humans across history have been dealing with grief. The universal nature of our response to loss can be studied by looking at methods of consolation.Professor Baltussen uses a comparative angle to show that the approach of this 'healing arts' has something to offer the modern age.
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Initial value problem
Aurèle Balavoine
This module describes some conditions that guarantee the existence and uniqueness of the solution to an Ordinary Differential Equation with initial value condition.
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This Day in History June 8: King Assassination Suspect Arrested
On this day 1968 James Earl Ray, an escaped American convict, is arrested in London, England, and charged with the assassination of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Also on this day in 1939, FDR welcomed King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the Washington. (1:00)
This Day in History July 10: Monkey Trial Begins
In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. (1:00)
Art & Context - Khan Academy
Art & Context: Monet's Cliff Walk at Pourville & Malevich's Suprematist Composition: White on White A conversation with Sal Khan, Steven Zucker & Beth Harris. (10:27)
Tower Views - Brad Evans
In this edition of Tower Views, Larry Burns vice president of external affairs is on location at Scott Park campus with Head Women's Soccer Coach Brad Evans.
Southeast Asia emerging as money magnet
Sept. 19 - As Western economies struggle, Southeast Asia is shaping up as the place where fortunes are made - and stored, with Singapore tipped to overtake Switzerland as the world's wealth management capital.
ISS Update: Update on Orbital Sciences Cargo Flights to Space Station
NASA Public Affairs Officer Josh Byerly talks with Bruce Manners, a project executive for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS), about Orbital Sciences Corporation's work to provide cargo capability to the International Space Station.
Orbital is developing and qualifying a new launch vehicle called Antares to enable lower-cost COTS launches and the Cygnus cargo module. Antares will be launching from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Orbital plans to launch Antares
The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}
A week's worth of campus news delivered in a minute by Duke University juniors Danny Nolan and Audrey Adu-Appiah.
It was a busy week for Dukies in Washington, D.C. Law Professor Scott Silliman was sworn in as an appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review; Professor Thavolia Glymph spoke on the "Emancipation Nation" panel at the Smithsonian; and the Duke Law in D.C. program kicked off the semester in Duke's new D.C. office.
Research by graduate student Angela Mace has deter
U.S. Day Ahead: Oracle results to show tech weakness
Sep 19 - Don't be fooled by Oracle when it reports after the close. It's set to see a fatter profit as IT managers spend their budgets before December, but hardware sales could drop by up to 10%.
UMass Amherst and Baystate Medical Center Tackle Breast Cancer
Clinical experts, oncologists, and surgeons from Baystate Medical Center interface with UMass Amherst biologists, geneticists, and polymer scientists to tackle big questions in breast cancer through the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute. The institute is advancing several promising research efforts, including a breast disease patient registry.
Parents - Welcome to The University of Nottingham
This video was played to parents on arrivals day at The University of Nottingham 2012.
It gives an overview of what our students can expect to find at the university and outlines the support that the university offers in order to provide them with the best possible university experience.
1: Introducing Jim and Marianne Cherry Emerson Part 1 Uri Laserson - Student Prize Application Video Application video for Uri Laserson, 2012 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Program Student Prize finalist, profiling his work developing high-throughput methods for categorizing and manipulating the immune system.
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