By Vasileia Karasavva, PhD student, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Amori Yee Mikami, Professor, Psychology Department, University of British Columbia
While social media provides a way to share their experiences and find community, the breadth of content can make it a struggle to wade through misinformation.
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By David Poole, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modelling language in terms of the probability of the next word in a sentence given the previous words. These types of probabilistic language models were largely derided, most famously by linguist Noam Chomsky: “The notion of ‘probability of a sentence’ is an entirely useless one.”
In 2022, 74 years after Shannon’s proposal, ChatGPT appeared,…
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By Yeonsin Ahn, Professeur assistant, stratégie et politique d'entreprise, HEC Paris Business School
Eric Yuan was not happy at Cisco Systems even though he was making a salary in the high six figures, working as vice president of engineering on the videoconferencing software Cisco WebEx.
“I even did not want to go to the office to work,” Yuan told CNBC Make It in 2019.
Yuan was unhappy with the culture at Cisco, where new ideas were often shut down and change was slow. When he suggested building a new, mobile-friendly video platform from scratch,…
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By Larry Savage, Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
Daniel Westlake, Assistant Professor, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan
Nearly one in three workers in Canada is covered by a union contract, making union members a potentially powerful voting bloc at election time. It should therefore come as little surprise that federal parties have been making overt efforts to secure endorsements from labour unions and the votes of their members as election day nears.
The Canadian Union…
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By Roger Southall, Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
A new book argues that South Africa should ‘start again’, but the reviewer says it doesn’t make a strong case.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
As we prepare for Trump’s “Liberation Day” both sides of the campaign are bracing to see what the how Trump will effect the campaign.
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By Chris F. Wright, Professor of Work and Labour Market Policy, University of Sydney
A real boost to award wages is unlikely to drive up inflation, nor adversely impact productivity. But it would provide cost-of-living relief to Australia’s lowest-paid workers.
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By Martin Ruhs, Professor of Migration Studies, European University Institute
With an estimated minimum of 2.6 to 3.2 million irregular migrants in Europe and fierce public debates about them, policymakers face the difficult question of how to ensure migrants’ basic rights of protection from exploitation, destitution and ill health while also establishing effective migration controls.…
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By Aaron Humphrey, Lecturer, Media and Digital Humanities, University of Adelaide
Leading man of 1990s Hollywood, Val Kilmer, has died at 65 from pneumonia. Battling cancer since 2014, he has not been a frequent presence on our film screens for most of this century. While he has recently done some interesting projects, he never recaptured his fame and box-office draw of the 1980s and ‘90s, when he appeared in iconic films such as Top Gun (1986) and Batman Forever (1995).
His standout performance as Tom Cruise’s swaggering, self-assured rival Iceman in Top Gun made him a star. But the film that really cemented his reputation as a leading man was Oliver Stone’s The…
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By Amanuel Tesfaye, Doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki
Yared Debebe, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Gondar
Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region.
This conflict in Ethiopia’s north erupted less than a year after the devastating Tigray war, which ended in 2022.
The Amhara…
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