Research on visual communication continues
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Gestures, facial expressions, pictograms – visually perceivable forms of communication are at the heart of the DFG Priority Program “Visual Communication: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives” (ViCom), jointly coordinated by Goethe University and the University of Göttingen. Following a successful initial phase, the research network will now receive funding for an additional three years.
Contrary to popular belief, new research finds that the use of artificial intelligence has a minimal effect on global greenhouse gas emissions and may actually benefit the environment and the economy.
For their study, researchers from the University of Waterloo and the Georgia Institute of Technology combined data on the U.S. economy with estimates of AI use across industries to determine the environmental fallout if AI use continues its current trajectory.
A new study from the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz and King’s College London shows that working from home can make the division of household and care work between men and women more balanced – but only in families with progressive gender role attitudes.
A computer that can calculate hundreds of scientific tasks simultaneously and thus helps provide a solution to key social challenges: this is the new IT heart of Paderborn University. The ‘Otus’ supercomputer was put into operation at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) on Monday 10 November. From now onwards, researchers all over Germany can use it to run challenging computer simulations and conduct scientific enquiry at the highest level.
An international study led by Dr. Agustín Ibáñez, Trinity College Dublin and his co-authors Lucia Amoruso, BrainLat and Hernán Hernández, BrainLat, reveals that speaking multiple languages may slow the biological processes of aging and protect against age-related decline.