Mark Dredze, associate professor of computer science, is profiled by Baltimore Style as one of three Baltimore influencers targeting unique ways to stop the nationwide crisis of gun violence.
Social media users who share conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific claims about the Zika virus may undermine upcoming efforts to keep the disease from spreading.
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.
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.
