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MIT junior Justin Yu crashes “Tetris,” with thanks to the game’s recent “space race”

Oct 18, 2024

Q: Congratulations on hitting game crash! But after the world championships, I took a day to make a lot of offline attempts on my own, which got me to about...

Annie Liau: Infinite caring for the MIT community

Oct 18, 2024

It was the mid 1980s, and MIT Health had recently moved into its current location in Building E23 from its previous headquarters in Building 11. “I always felt from the...

VIU researcher exploring tourism resilience in rural BC communities

Oct 18, 2024

Dr. Farhad Moghimehfar named new BC Regional Innovation Chair for Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development. A Vancouver Island University (VIU) researcher is exploring the ability of rural and remote communities...

Pat McAtamney: Empowering student-led engineering teams

Oct 18, 2024

When McAtamney first inherited the shop in 2013, he says, “There were hardly any women.” McAtamney made a point to encourage women students to join teams and run for leadership...

Safer skies with self-flying helicopters

Oct 18, 2024

In late 2019, after years of studying aviation and aerospace engineering, Hector (Haofeng) Xu decided to learn to fly helicopters. In 2021, he founded the autonomous helicopter company Rotor Technologies,...

VIU’s Science and Technology lecture series explores diverse research topics

Oct 18, 2024

The lecture series kicks off with a talk by Dr. Andrew Loudon about how scientists can harness microbes for our benefit. Explore cutting-edge research during Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Science...

MADMEC winner creates “temporary tattoos” for T-shirts

Oct 18, 2024

What about a music or sports-themed shirt you wear to one event and then lose interest in entirely? Such one-off T-shirts — and the waste and pollution associated with them...

Doctors have more difficulty diagnosing disease when looking at images of darker skin

Oct 18, 2024

When diagnosing skin diseases based solely on images of a patient’s skin, doctors do not perform as well when the patient has darker skin, according to a new study from...

Surprising new evidence on happiness and wealth

Oct 18, 2024

Global polls typically show that people in industrialized countries where incomes are relatively high report greater levels of satisfaction with life than those in low-income countries. But now the first...

How symmetry can come to the aid of machine learning

Oct 18, 2024

Such a reduction, in turn, could facilitate — as well as speed up — machine learning processes. Nevertheless, Tahmasebi believed that a customized version of that law might help with...