AI and Social Good – Intro
Artificial Intelligence has become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives, and this rise in AI applications has stimulated significant interest from the public, media and policy makers. This increasing attention is often focused on…
Accelerating data science at the Alan Turing Institute with Microsoft Azure
Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute in the United Kingdom are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to push the state of the art in data science to better understand what makes us happy, angry…
Opportunities abound in the creative and collaborative culture of STEM
The explosion of data available today everywhere from biomedicine to the arts is opening new opportunities for researchers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math to pursue creative and collaborative endeavors that have deep…
Multimodal Devices: Learnings from Multisensory Perception and Plasticity
We often think about perceptual experiences one modality at a time; we “see” this or we “hear” that, etc. These distinctions often imply that our perception of each sense is independent from each other. Research…
Counting every person on Earth to eradicate poverty and empower women
The number one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to eliminate poverty, leaving nobody behind. Researchers in the United Kingdom are harnessing the large-scale data-processing power of Microsoft Azure to map the location of every…