Texas is overhauling what students will learn in social studies and history. Here's what to know

The social studies rewrite has become a thorny political process, with officials clashing over the portrayal of slavery, ...

How educators are preparing to teach South Dakota's new social studies standards this fall

In less than four months, a new school year will begin and teachers will start teaching the hotly contested new South Dakota social studies standards.
Carnegie Mellon University

Blending Humanistic Inquiry and Technology, Carnegie Mellon Leads a New Era of Cultural Study and Research

Carnegie Mellon University will introduce new academic programs and resources for students and researchers to blend traditional humanistic inquiry with computational methods like computer vision, ...
IEEE

VLM-Social-Nav: Socially Aware Robot Navigation Through Scoring Using Vision-Language Models

Abstract: We propose VLM-Social-Nav, a novel Vision-Language Model (VLM) based navigation approach to compute a robot's motion in human-centered environments. Our goal is to make real-time decisions ...
IEEE

Large Language Model-Guided Disentangled Belief Representation Learning on Polarized Social Graphs

Abstract: The paper advances belief representation learning in polarized networks – the mapping of social beliefs espoused by users and posts in a polarized network into a disentangled latent space ...