Month: August 2019

A new computer model that uses machine learning and de-identified and aggregated search and location data from logged-in Google users was significantly more accurate in identifying potentially unsafe restaurants when compared with existing methods of consumer complaints and routine inspections, according to new research led by Google and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The findings indicate that the model can help identify lapses in food safety in…

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A group of Harvard students started a company that bring AI tools and understanding of Political Strategies to provide an analytical tool for political campaign. The startup’s goal is to identify a list of potential voters and score them. A score is based on voting history, registered party, and other relevant factors. Then the tool will determine the likelihood an individual to vote for the candidate. https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2019/06/running-on-data

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MIT computer scientists are hoping to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence to improve medical decision-making, by automating a key step that’s usually done by hand — and that’s becoming more laborious as certain datasets grow ever-larger. MIT News A big problem in AI is having a proper data that means data cleansing and sanitizing. Currently, most of data preparation is human intensive manual process. MIT scientists have found…

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Inspired by Financial Market theories, MIT researchers in collaboration with Microsoft have developed a “risk-aware” mathematical model that could improve the performance of cloud-computing networks across the globe. Notably, cloud infrastructure is extremely expensive and consumes a lot of the world’s energy. MIT News The researchers are using risk model such Value at Risk (VaR) to predict and evaluate network risk to improve the utilization of assets that are…

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