The George Washington University (GW, GWU, or George Washington) is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on February 9, 1821, as The Columbian College in the District of Columbia.
Machine learning & AI
Many industries, from entertainment to medicine, are wrestling with the emergence of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI). Scientific research is no exception. Funding agencies are already cracking down on the use of ...
Aug 29, 2023
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Business
The popular social media app TikTok is facing increased scrutiny as some government officials have declared it a security risk, with the Biden administration last week giving federal agencies 30 days to ensure that TikTok ...
Mar 7, 2023
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Hardware
A multi-institution research team has developed an optical chip that can train machine learning hardware. Their research is published today in Optica.
Nov 23, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
To reduce the carbon emissions that are driving climate change and meet climate targets, the world will need to deploy renewable energy at an unprecedented speed and scale. Solar energy promises to play a crucial role in ...
Oct 26, 2022
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Engineering
The most popular electric propulsion technologies used for miniature satellites—the Hall Thruster—has major limitations. Now, new research, led by Michael Keidar, the A. James Clark Professor of Engineering at the George ...
Sep 29, 2022
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Business
Financial incentives play an important role in the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. New research from the George Washington University, however, finds that not all financial incentives are created equal in the eyes ...
Jul 7, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Parenting communities on Facebook were subject to a powerful misinformation campaign early in the COVID-19 pandemic that pulled them closer to extreme communities and their misinformation, according to a new study published ...
Jan 3, 2022
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Automotive
A George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science professor is working on an interdisciplinary research project funded by NASA that aims to design and develop a safety management system for electric ...
Jun 11, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Password managers are considered highly effective tools for increasing online security. A study presented at the 2019 Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security surveyed a predominately young population about their use of password ...
Jan 8, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Researchers have found that using multiple patterns to unlock an Android phone provides significantly more security than the current single-pattern method, and, in some cases, may be more secure than the four- and six-digit ...
Nov 10, 2020
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