ECU graduate students present research in thesis competition

The annual event challenges graduate students to present their research in three minutes using only one slide.

The power of a handwritten letter: Why a college basketball coach writes hundreds every month

Even if it takes more time, some coaches like Buzz Williams see value in writing by hand. Research suggests they might be on ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States

We study the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were randomized into receiving $1,000 per month ...
Kansas Reflector

In my Kansas college courses, writing feels like a digital zombie footrace

As a middle-aged instructor at the front of a college lecture hall, I feel like a pivot point — a human crossroads.
Futurism

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

AI bots are everywhere now, filling everything from online stores to social media. “Competition-induced misaligned behaviors emerge even when models are explicitly instructed to remain truthful and ...
IEEE

Research on Local MI-PGD Adversarial Example Generation for YOLO Models

Abstract: To enhance the adversarial robustness of YOLO-based object detectors, a localized MI-PGD approach is proposed for generating adversarial examples. The proposed method enhances the ...
The Conversation

Winning a bidding war isn’t always a win, research on 14 million home sales shows

Rochester Institute of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. In today’s hot housing market, winning a bidding war can feel like a triumph. But my research shows it often ...