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What’s intelligence? Ashley Llorens, Chief of the Intelligent Systems Center at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, has a good idea. He joins us to talk about intelligence of the human-type and the machine-type, and what…

Over the last year, I have had the privilege of meeting with a lot of interesting people who are dedicated to making a difference in healthcare. I find myself inspired by their passion, and I…

As the FCC is poised to deliver more than $20 billion in federal subsidies to internet service providers in the coming years aimed at expanding broadband access to unserved parts of the country, it’s critical…

Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a bigger and more central part of the infrastructure of healthcare. We see this as a historic shift that motivates us to think hard about how to ensure that, in…

Microsoft researchers are developing a transfer learning-based approach for adapting general question answer models to documents in specialized domains. Their new demonstration system can answer questions against Welcome to Canada, the Canadian government’s guidebook for…

Computational biologist Sara-Jane Dunn explains how her team is studying embryonic stem cells to gain a new understanding of the biological programs that power life — and develop ‘living software’ that could transform medicine, agriculture…