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 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, a CLSP alumna, has been inducted into the National Association of Professional Women’s (NAPW) VIP Woman of the Year Circle for 2015-2016.
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.
Suchi Saria, assistant professor in the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, has been named one of the “AI 10 to Watch” in 2015 by IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine.
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University have been awarded a three-year, $1 million National Science Foundation grant aimed at developing algorithms that will allow researchers to better extract information from massive streams of data.
Zhifei Li (PhD ’10) believes that computers should be able to see, hear, feel, and move. But, he adds, mostly they need to be able to speak to us and respond intelligently to what we say.
