Call for proposals for the 2017 summer workshop
October 21, 2016
News & Articles
2016 summer workshop concludes with final presentations
August 5, 2016
During the six-week workshop, attendees collaborated to design a system to monitor neurodegenerative diseases over the phone, detect risk and monitor mental health through posts on social media, and build a speech recognition system from untranscribed data.
JHU Engineering: Making Conversation Easier
July 5, 2016
KITT.AI, a new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup whose founders include two Whiting School alumni, has landed funding from Founders’ Co-Op, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, and Madrona Venture Group.
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JHU Engineering: The ‘Charlie Sheen Effect’
July 5, 2016
After actor Charlie Sheen disclosed his HIV-positive status on NBC’s Today show last November, millions took to the Internet to find out more about HIV, according to a new study led by computer scientist Mark Dredze and two Whiting School alumni.
CLSP kicks off Third Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop
June 27, 2016
The six-week workshop—which marks the 21st summer workshop in CLSP’s history—seeks to advance and promote machine learning for speech language and computer vision technology.
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Mashable: Why scientists think your social media posts can help prevent suicide
June 27, 2016
Predicting suicide risk by understanding language usage is exactly what Glen Coppersmith–data scientist, psychologist, and CLSP affiliate–has set out to do, reports Mashable.
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Fast Company: How Artificial Intelligence is Bringing Us Smarter Medicine
June 21, 2016
“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 conspiracy theories could undermine efforts to combat Zika virus, experts caution
May 26, 2016
Social media users who share conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific claims about the Zika virus may undermine upcoming efforts to keep the disease from spreading.
CLSP alums launch “hotword detection” software toolkit
May 19, 2016
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.
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ScienceDaily: What the Disneyland measles outbreak of 2014-15 can teach us about how stories go viral
May 17, 2016
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.
