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Plasma taken from the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients stands a real chance of being one of the more effective short-term measures feasible in the ongoing effort to control the global coronavirus pandemic. The FDA…

The world is searching for ways to fight COVID-19, leading to a surge of research efforts to create effective therapies. Thankfully, as the human immune system learns to fight off the disease and people recover,…

A. F. Siu (MSR & Stanford), M. Sinclair, R. Kovacs, C. Holz, E. Ofek, and E. Cutrell. Virtual Reality Without Vision: A Haptic and Auditory White Cane to Navigate Complex Virtual Worlds.  CHI 2020

Despite amazing progress in our understanding of the brain and how it works, we have yet to develop a rigorous scientific understanding of how we translate experience into knowledge—in other words, how we learn. And…

Given the urgency the COVID-19 virus has created, we are mobilizing our AI for Health initiative to focus on helping those on the front lines of research of COVID-19. We’re focusing our efforts in five…

Amidst all of the unproven and ineffective treatments being promoted for coronavirus treatment, a new possibility has just emerged. Scientists around the globe are devoting enormous resources to trying to develop new treatments for COVID-19,…

Advances in software applications that process human language lie at the heart of the debate over whether computer technologies will enhance or even substitute for human creativity.

As the coronavirus pandemic began spreading across Europe earlier this year, the number of calls to Emergency Medical Services Copenhagen quickly ramped up. The organization, which provides emergency care for about one-third of Denmark’s population,…

In a [study] (opens in new tab) published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and Arizona State University researchers propose an AI framework — Multiple sources of Weak Social Supervision (MWSS) — that leverages…