Distinguished scientists and educators gathered at Johns Hopkins University this week to highlight cutting-edge research on human learning, from pioneering neuroscience to novel pedagogical approaches.
KITT.AI, a Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup, has received funding from Amazon’s Alexa Fund and Founders’ Co-op. Xuchen Yao, a CLSP alumnus, and Guoguo Chen, a CLSP graduate student, are two of the company’s co-founders.
The Julian S. Smith Professor in Electrical Engineering and director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing returns to his alma mater in the Czech Republic.
Google’s services are not available in China, but that isn’t stopping it from making a significant investment in a company based on Chinese soil. The U.S. search giant is backing Mobvoi, a three-year-old company specializing in mobile voice technology.
Sanjeev Khudanpur is working with other engineers and doctors to use computers to improve how medical students learn surgical procedures.
Priebe and Park have created a statistical tool that successfully mapped behaviors onto about 60 percent of the fruit fly larvae’s neurons.
Researchers from the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University are among the winners for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s (IARPA) Automatic Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments (ASpIRE) challenge.
