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  • "Shall I Compare Thee to An Algorithm? Turing Test Gets a Creative Twist" (NPR)

    August 12, 2015

    Professor Daniel Rockmore, Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College, and colleagues have established three competitions to explore the Turing Test.  The goal of the test is to write a computer program which creates something a human might create, in such a humanlike way that the end product is indistinguishable from what a real human would produce.  Read and listen to the full story.

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  • QSS 17/GOV 16 Students Participate in a Data Visualization Contest

    June 23, 2015

    As part of his Spring 2015 Data Visualization class, Associate Professor Yusaku Horiuchi organized a contest for his students.  The top five student submissions were chosen by voting.  The selected data visualizations are displayed in the slideshow to the left; if the slideshow is not visible, please click on the title of this article and the carousel will appear.

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  • Dartmouth "Quantitative History" Workshop (June 1 and 2, 2015)

    June 12, 2015

    Workshop Guest Speakers from Harvard University:Matthew Blackwell is an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He studies political methodology, with a focus on dynamic causal inference, missing data, panel data, and social network analysis. His substantive interests include American politics, negative advertising, and historical political economy. (source: http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/matthew-blackwell)

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  • "Chile's Electoral Reform"

    May 28, 2015

    Professor John Carey reviews Chile's overhaul of its system for electing legislators in Latin America Goes Global.  The link for his related paper is http://sites.dartmouth.edu/jcarey/files/2013/02/Malapportionment-and-ideological-bias-in-Chilean-electoral-districts.pdf.

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  • "How Will Congressmen Vote? Just Look at Their Social Circles, a Study Finds" (Science Daily)

    May 28, 2015

    American Congress members' social circles are more important in how they vote than their liberal or conservative beliefs or constituents' opinions, according to a new model of voting behavior created by Dartmouth College researchers Scott Pauls and Daniel Rockmore.  Read the article in Science Daily from May 26, 2015.  The link for the associated paper is https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053168015570415.

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