In American Sign Language, some words rhyme, some look like what they mean and some are used more often than others. A new database of these features paves a pathway for ASL research.
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Boston University is no small operation: it has over 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 140 countries, 10,000 faculty and staff, 16 schools and colleges, and 250 fields of study. BU was founded in 1839.
Boston University offers bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through eighteen schools and colleges on two urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston’s Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston’s South End neighborhood. BU also operates 75 study abroad programs in more than 33 cities in over twenty countries and has internship opportunities in ten different countries (including the United States).
The university counts seven Nobel Laureates including Martin Luther King, Jr. (PhD ‘55) and Elie Wiesel, 35 Pulitzer Prize winners, nine Academy Award winners, Emmy and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. BU also has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences members among its past and present graduates and faculty.
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COVID-19 has underscored the value of parks and public spaces. A new survey shows that US mayors have gotten the message, but post-pandemic plans for public spaces remain largely undefined.
Building retrofits are no joke: They make dwellings healthier and more energy-efficient. And when they're done in low-income housing, they also reduce inequality.
Too many patents and too little information about them makes it hard for the system to weed out patents that unfairly block inventors.
Trees and shrubs in cold-weather climates rely on certain signals, such as temperature and light, to know when to leaf out and bloom. Climate change is scrambling those signals.
Bluetooth wireless communication makes it possible to track when people have been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus. The right cryptography scheme keeps alerts about exposures private.
Il n’y aura pas de retour à la normale après la pandémie de Covid-19, en partie parce que le monde d’avant était tout sauf normal !
Il y a une montée en flèche des coûts énergétiques et financiers de la recherche en IA. Elle nécessite énormément de calculs pour apprendre à comprendre les données, autrement dit, pour s’entraîner.
There's no going back to normal after COVID-19, partly because our pre-pandemic world was anything but normal.
Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it's working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.
Four years of 'America First' has seen the US retreat from the world. But as a scholar of international relations explains, Biden could return Washington to the role of a more moral global leader.
The vaccines that will first be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will have gone through a special approval process with the FDA. but just what is this expedited process?
Republicans have attacked the Affordable Care Act since it became law 10 years ago, yet Republicans were the ones who came up with the blueprint for the law. How did this twist happen?
Scholars of race, foreign policy and the Supreme Court give their informed predictions of what to expect under a Biden administration.
Trump launched his trade war to save American manufacturing. An economist explains why it hasn't worked out as planned.
Differential privacy lets people to share data anonymously, but people need to know more about it to make informed decisions.
Lo que publican cambia con el tiempo, según la coyuntura, arman nueva propaganda; amplifican mensajes creados por otros, y su material y método varia según la red.
Un estudio de referencia de Estados Unidos demuestra de el estrés crónico del racismo puede contribuir a una pérdida de función cognitiva en las mujeres negras.
In a political environment as polarised as Rwanda’s, there is no room for moderates and no space for critical voices.
The court prosecutes genocide, torture and grave wartime abuses worldwide. Trump's executive order imposes on its lawyers and judges the kind of sanctions usually used on foreign terrorists.
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Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Professor of Law, Boston University
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Professor of History and Political Science, Boston University
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
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Researcher Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
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Doctoral student in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University
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Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
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Co-Director, Initiative on Cities, Boston University
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Professor of Law, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Deaf Studies, Boston University
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Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Boston University
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Senior Academic Researcher, Boston University
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Professor of Biology, Boston University
