Leveraging Science and Technology for Effective Instruction
There is currently unprecedented interest in the potential of technology to transform learning. This buzz around technology and learning is especially loud in higher education, where pundits,...
Oct, 12, 2015
Mobilize Center MOOCs by Professors Who Wrote the Book
Want to dip a toe in data science? Why not take a MOOC (massively open online course) from someone who literally wrote the book on the topic at hand?
Several MOOCs offered by Stanford...
Oct, 05, 2015
Brain implants are giving hope to the disabled and revolutionizing neuroscience
Matthew Nagle can move a cursor on a computer screen with only the power of his thoughts. It’s a remarkable feat for anyone, but especially momentous for Nagle, who is paralyzed from the neck...
Aug, 31, 2005
Molecular simulation of the ribosome
Inside a cell, the ribosome deciphers genetic codes to produce proteins at unfathomable speeds. Now, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have simulated this complex nano-machine in...
Apr, 01, 2006
Early evidence suggests a mixed picture
Stanford University’s 2004-2005 computer science T-shirts exhibited symbols for six men and one woman -- an accurate portrayal of the ratio in the department and only slightly worse than the...
Apr, 01, 2006
BD2K Builds Training Resources
The field of biomedical data science is growing so fast that it threatens to leave some researchers behind.
“Some of these big data skills were not needed 5 to 10 years ago, and many...
Oct, 07, 2015
Researchers are bringing machine learning to the clinic
Physicians are forever recording information about their patients. They take vital signs, order lab tests and imaging, prescribe medications, check boxes to define patients’ diagnoses for...
Oct, 27, 2016
Students, not faculty, are the ones in charge
Outwardly, the Biomedical Computation at Stanford (BCATS) conference resembles other academic conferences: Researchers converge to hear about the latest developments in their field and to...
Jan, 01, 2008
Cleverly designed software makes applications running in clusters more fault-tolerant
Machine learning is the process of automatically building models from data. In the past two decades, researchers in many fields of study have been generating these models from progressively more data...
Jun, 03, 2015
In a win-win for patients and researchers, big biomechanics data has arrived.
One rainy day in the late 1990s, a biomechanics doctoral student stood sopping at the street corner, hoping his research participant would arrive for her gait analysis. “It was the third time...
Mar, 01, 2014
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