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.
Suchi Saria to present at White House-sponsored workshop on artificial intelligence
May 10, 2016
Suchi Saria will present at a White House-sponsored workshop on artificial intelligence on June 7, 2016.
Caption This: Artificial intelligence aids visual storytelling
May 5, 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.
Do health awareness days have an impact on our behavior?
April 5, 2016
Health awareness days are ubiquitous. But does dedicating a day to a serious disease or to healthy living habits actually make a difference?
Vimal Manohar and Chunxi Liu receive Student Paper Award at IEEE ICASSP 2016
April 5, 2016
Vimal Manohar and Chunxi Liu, CLSP students and PhD candidates in the research lab of Dr. Sanjeev Khudanpur, were recipients of the Speech and Language Processing Student Paper Award at IEEE ICASSP 2016.
Kate Fischl receives 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
April 1, 2016
Kate Fischl, a PhD candidate in the research lab of Professor Andreas Andreou, has been awarded a fellowship through the 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
Baltimore Business Journal: Sickweather among startups selected for Light City Baltimore’s pitch competition
March 30, 2016
Baltimore Business Journal reports that Sickweather, a startup that provides sickness forecasting and mapping by scanning social networks, is one of ten startups selected as finalists for Light City Baltimore’s pitch competition.
Carolina Parada (PhD ’11) inducted into NAPW VIP Woman of the Year Circle
March 3, 2016
Carolina Parada, a CLSP alumna, has been inducted into the National Association of Professional Women’s (NAPW) VIP Woman of the Year Circle for 2015-2016.
Exploring the ‘Charlie Sheen Effect:’ Study finds uptick of web searches related to HIV prevention
February 23, 2016
The day of Sheen’s disclosure coincided with a 265 percent increase in news reports mentioning HIV (97 percent of which also mentioned Sheen) archived on the Bloomberg Terminal, even though HIV-related news reports have been in historic decline. An additional 6,500 stories were reported on Google News alone. This placed Sheen’s disclosure among the top 1 percent of historic HIV-related media events.
