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Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happened because two very different people were the science advisors to their nation’s leaders. Each had radically different […]
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Teaching National Security Policy with AI

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AI and immigration uncertainty threaten Nigeria’s dreams of becoming an outsourcing hot spot

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