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News

  1. July 30, 202111 things you never knew about mathematical symbols
    By the Numbers

  2. July 29, 2021Award-winning PhD student Yuyu Chen sharpens risk assessment models in actuarial science
    Yuyu Chen

    For many of us, risk is something unknown or somehow tied to chance and fortune. But for Yuyu Chen, a PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, there is no guesswork to risk at all.

  3. July 28, 2021What's in a developer's name?
    Resa Nadri, Gema Rodriguez Perez, and Mei Nagappan

    Research conducted by recent computer science master’s graduate Reza Nadri, recent postdoctoral researcher Gema Rodríguez-Pérez and their supervisor Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Mei Nagappan found that the perceived race and ethnicity of a developer — based on just their user name — can affect how the developer’s contributions to open source software projects are evaluated.

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