Some, including Jeff Jarvis, journalism professor at the City University of New York, and Edward Wasserman, dean of the University of California, Berkeley journalism school, have suggested Facebook hire more editors and journalists to help curate and manage its news feeds and algorithms. This, of co
Date: Nov 16, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
CNN chief says Brazile's leaks to Clinton camp were 'disgusting'
Braziles dual roles point up the inherent conflict of interest in the networks employment of political figures as commentators, said Edward Wasserman, dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
Date: Nov 01, 2016
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Make way for ducklings — they're smarter than you think
The claim that abstract relational thinking is a unique ability of human beings can no longer be supported, University of Iowa experimental psychologist Edward Wasserman wrote in anaccompanying analysis. "Although animals may not be able to speak, studying their behavior may be a suitable substit
Date: Jul 15, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Ducklings Are Capable Of Abstract Thoughts, Can Distinguish 'Same' From 'Different,' Oxford Study Finds
In a related commentary, Edward Wasserman from the University of Iowa, who was not part of the research team,said that the ducklings were exposed to only a single pair of stimuli, therefore they actually outperform human babies. According to Wasserman, 7-month-old toddlers can also distinguish betw
Date: Jul 15, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Pigeons can identify cancer on medical scans, study says
Levenson thought of experimenting with birds when he heard about work by Edward Wasserman of the University of Iowa in Iowa City and colleagues that found pigeons' visual recall is similar to that of humans.
Date: Nov 21, 2015
Category: Health
Source: Google
Pigeons are being used to spot breast cancer in mammograms
As reported in paper published this week in PLOS One, Richard Levenson and University of Iowa psychologist Edward Wasserman showed their chosen pigeons images of tissue samples that were either benign or malignant, and the birds would peck on blue or yellow rectangles on a touch-screen monitor to in
Date: Nov 20, 2015
Category: Health
Source: Google
Bird Brain? Pigeons Make Good Pathologists, Study Finds
pigeons can distinguish identities and emotional expressions on human faces, letters of the alphabet, misshapen pharmaceutical capsules, and even paintings by Monet vs. Picasso," said Edward Wasserman, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa who worked on the study.
"These results go a long way toward establishing a profound link between humans and our animal kin," said Edward Wasserman, PhD, professor of psychological and brain sciences, University of Iowa, in the press release. "Even distant relatives like people and pigeons are adept at perceiving and ca