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Thomas Thebaud wins Best Postdoctoral Poster award at AAIC2023 preconference

July 28, 2023

Postdoctoral Fellow, Thomas Thebaud, received the “Best Postdoctoral Poster” award at the Technology and Dementia pre-conference for the 2023 Alzheimer Association International Conference (AAIC) for his poster entitled, “Handwriting Characteristics Analysis for Alzheimer’s Disease and MCI Assessment”.  Dr. Thebaud is a fellow training under the supervision of Dr. Najim Dehak, Professor of Electrical and Computer […]

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No Language Left Behind

June 29, 2023

Four billion people around the world speak languages not served by Siri, Alexa, or chatbots—to the detriment of global public health, human rights, and national security. Here’s how our experts are leveraging artificial intelligence to achieve digital equity for people the world over. In 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti. Relief workers poured in from around […]

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The limitations of AI-generated text

November 22, 2021

This story originally appeared in the Hub. Artificial intelligence has reached a point where it can compose text that sounds so human that it dupes most people into thinking it was written by another person. These AI programs—based on what are called autoregressive models—are being successfully used to create and deliberately spread everything from fake […]

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Speech recognition software and machine learning tools are being used to create diagnostic test for Parkinson’s Disease

March 27, 2019

Diagnosing Parkinson’s Disease is tricky. Instead of the blood tests and imaging used to help detect other diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, and heart problems, clinicians must rely on observations of the way patients move and speak, which is an often long and painstaking process. Laureano Moro Velazquez wants to change that. A post-doctoral student […]

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