Social media users who share conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific claims about the Zika virus may undermine upcoming efforts to keep the disease from spreading.
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.
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.
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, 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, 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.
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.
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.
