Teach Global Impact in CSP | Resources and Strategies

For Driverless Cars, a Moral Dilemma: Who Lives or Dies?

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: Associated Press, 1/18/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at MIT are conducting a worldwide survey to determine how consumers think a self-driving car should handle morally complex situations. Their findings will tell designers…

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AI Spots Skin Cancer as Well as Human Doctor

January 31, 2017January 30, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Newsweek, 1/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary A team of researchers at Stanford University has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can identify early symptoms of skin cancer.  The researchers trained the…

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A String Quartet Concert, With an A.I. Assist

January 24, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: New York Times, 1/13/2017 >> View the Article << Summary "Sight Machine", a performance piece by Trevor Paglen, uses AI to generate a live image mapping of musicians as they play. The algorithm involves movement-analysis…

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UA-Developed Avatar Is Helping to Screen New Arrivals at Bucharest Airport

January 18, 2017January 17, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: UANews, 1/9/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Romanian border police are using a system designed by the University of Arizona called AVATAR (Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time), to screen international travelers…

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Uber Launches Artificial Intelligence Lab

December 13, 2016December 14, 2016 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: BBC News, 12/5/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Uber has acquired an artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Geometric Intelligence, and put the team to work on (among other things) self-driving cars. The company already…

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It’s No Christmas No. 1, but AI-Generated Song Brings Festive Cheer to Researchers

December 8, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: The Guardian, 11/29/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at the University of Toronto are working on a program that analyzes an image and then produces music based on the contents of that…

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Big Data Analytics — Nostradamus of the 21st Century

December 7, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: Griffith University, 11/30/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at Griffith University successfully predicted the winner of the 2016 presidential election, including the outcomes in 49 out of 50 states, using data collected from…

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Meeting of the Minds for Machine Intelligence

December 5, 2016December 13, 2016 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: MIT News Office, 11/22/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Industry leaders and computer scientists are pushing for more use of machine intelligence so that machines can aid doctors, business corporations, investors and many…

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Neural Network Learns to Identify Criminals by Their Faces

November 29, 2016December 13, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 11/22/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from Jiao Tong University in China have applied facial recognition algorithms to guess whether a person has a criminal history based upon their…

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Machine-Learning Algorithm Can Show Whether State Secrets Are Properly Classified

November 18, 2016November 18, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 11/14/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from Columbia University and a Brazilian think tank have developed a machine-learning algorithm to predict whether now-declassified U.S. State Department cables from the…

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Unlocking Big Genetic Data Sets

November 16, 2016November 17, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Columbia University, 11/9/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at Columbia University are studying the use of machine-learning algorithms to predict the ancestry of individuals. They plan to use this algorithm to track trends…

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New AI-Based Search Engines Are a “Game Changer” for Science Research

November 14, 2016November 14, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: Nature (Nature News), 11/11/2016 >> View the Article << Summary New AI-based search engines are emerging to compete with Google Scholar's keyword-based search algorithms. Both Semantic Scholar and Microsoft Academic leverage algorithms that can…

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