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Mary Lynn Reed, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, presented “Communicating Mathematical Impact to Decision-Makers” on Aug. 10 during an NSF-sponsored “Communicating Mathematics” ...

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To supercharge agents' ability to make scientific discoveries, DARPA is looking to improve cross-bot collaboration by ...

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How can tens of thousands of people in a large football stadium all clap together with the same beat even though they can only hear the people near them clapping? A combination of a partial ...