A native of the Bronx, the 6-8 Schayes played his college hoops at NYU and then embarked on a pro career in which he was a 12-time NBA All-Star. Selected to the Hall of Fame in 1973, he was chosen for the following NBA anniversary teams – 25th, 50th and 75th. He won a league...
Although the value of a college degree has declined in recent decades, it remains a sound financial investment — for now, at least. Is college still worth it? Liang Zhang, a Professor of Higher Education at New York University (NYU), was the first author of the study, which was ...
Discussion: @1bobcohn and @jayrosen_nyu cnbc.com: Twitter skids 13% on user growth, but earnings beat — Twitter Q4 EPS: $0.02 ex-items vs ($0.02) Est. — Twitter is reporting Q4 EPS of $0.02 ex-items on revenue of $243 million, with CNBC's Julia Boorstin. The active monthly...
ready to smack down its ambitious, often wild claims. Pulling in this direction are a raft of researchers, including Hanna and Bender, and also outspoken industry critics like influential computer scientist and former Googler Timnit Gebru and NYU cognitive scientist Gary Marcus. All have a chorus ...
Nouriel Roubini, economist at NYU, believes that losses could reach $2 trillion. The other shoes have begun to drop. Last week Amex reported a 40% decline in earnings as their wealthy super-prime customers are not paying their bills. So, even the well off are struggling. ...
It has helped to create a new academic field of global priorities research, creating a research agenda, publishing tens of papers, and helping to inspire relevant research at Harvard, NYU, UT Austin, Yale, Princeton and elsewhere. What principles unite effective altruism? Effective altruism isn't...
The New York Tech Meetup is a powerful force in the New York tech community and gathers over 700 people to an NYU auditorium every month. Getting tickets to it is akin to getting tickets to a Springsteen concert on Ticketmaster; you have to keep clicking refresh on your browser and get ...
Scott Galloway (NYU) Arthur C. Brooks (Harvard) Jeremy Utley (Stanford) These professors have smartly leveraged their status as professors at leading universities to become authorities in their respective fields. With suchauthority and status, they are then able to sign lucrative book deals every ...
Following her graduation from NYU Abu Dhabi with a BA in Political Science, Maryam entered the innovation space as a strategy consultant at EY. Some of her notable achievements include leading the Special Olympics Innovation Challenge and playing a key role in the MBRIF Accelerat...
"There's a space of possible architectures for AI," says NYU Professor Emeritus Gary Marcus. "Most of what we've studied is in one little tiny corner of that space." Gary Marcus Marcus claims LeCun has not really engaged with Marcus' ideas, simply dismissing them. He ...