“A momentous change in health care is under way,” says Suchi Saria, an assistant professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. Fast Company reports five ways that machine learning is poised to bring new rigor to medicine.
Social media users who share conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific claims about the Zika virus may undermine upcoming efforts to keep the disease from spreading.
KITT.AI, a startup co-founded by Xuchen Yao and Guoguo Chen, has unveiled a software toolkit that will allow developers to add verbal “hotword detection” to devices.
Recent research published in Vaccine revealed a key factor in making articles about vaccines go viral, ScienceDaily reports. Mark Dredze served as a technical lead for the study.
Suchi Saria will present at a White House-sponsored workshop on artificial intelligence on June 7, 2016.
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then social media users are talking a lot. On average, more than 60 million photos are uploaded to Instagram every day. On Facebook, that daily average reaches at least 350 million. Every photo contains a narrative frozen in time, making captions critical to interpreting and connecting to the scene.
Health awareness days are ubiquitous. But does dedicating a day to a serious disease or to healthy living habits actually make a difference?
