By Maria Yaitanes Today, Boston University launched the Artificial Intelligence Development Accelerator (AIDA) Initiative. Hariri Institute Director Yannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor (ECE, SE, BME) of Engineering and Founding Professor of Computing & Data Sciences, and Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate, John Byers, Professor of Computer Science and Former Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty for Mathematical […]
By Maria Yaitanes On January 27, the floors of New England houses, offices, and universities shook for about 20 seconds. Some thought it was a large truck driving outside. Others felt the tremors and knew something greater was at hand: a 3.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Maine. Local social media pages and forums […]
BY GINA MANTICA Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can determine your ability to buy or rent a house, gain employment, get approved for a loan, and more. But many of the algorithms that drive AI are biased and may lead to discriminatory business practices. Federal lawmakers introduced the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022 to Congress earlier […]
Boston University researchers developed a machine learning model that found that the brain’s resting state functional connectivity can predict how stroke survivors with aphasia recover their language skills. BY GINA MANTICA & ALEX JOHNSON Despite centuries of study, the human brain remains one of science’s greatest mysteries. Most research focuses on how the brain responds […]
BY GINA MANTICA There are over 10 million new cases of dementia each year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Researchers conduct neuropsychological tests to assess patients’ cognitive functioning, but transcribing the audio recordings takes a lot of time. Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can be used to analyze voice recordings of individuals to detect […]
BY GINA MANTICA Many people interact with natural language processing systems every day unknowingly by asking Siri for help or talking with a chat bot at an online store. Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that aims to build computer systems that can understand, process, and learn about language. But […]
BY GINA MANTICA Robots navigate around a room thanks to cameras and algorithms that help them process images. But, as a robot starts moving around, so does the camera’s field of view. To control a robot’s movements and prevent it from crashing into objects, it needs to excel at change detection – or the process […]
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a global health problem. Almost half the adults over the age of 75 have some form of knee OA—one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Because there is no cure for knee OA, current treatment relies on accurately identifying and staging the disease. Using an Artificial Intelligence-based approach known as […]
BY: GINA MANTICA In today’s virtual world, equal access to online resources is more important than ever before. But online texts aren’t available in all 7,000 languages, and most machine translation programs are limited to Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and several European languages. Researchers from Boston University and Institut Teknologi Bandung developed an innovative method to […]
Last week, Professor Dr. Juergen Gall led a talk about the aspects of video understanding. He began speaking about holistic video understanding, where a video can be categorized by the activity as well as other tags that can describe scenes or attributes of video. He goes on to describe a multi-stage temporal convolutional network, which […]