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Dans l’actualité | Forbes
How Technology Has Transformed, And Complicated, Music Fandom: Interview With Nancy Baym
Principal Researcher Nancy Baym discusses why there is no one-size-fits-all solution to nailing fan engagement in the digital age.
A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online—and the large societal impact of these decisions.
Prix | American Mathematical Society
Henry Cohn awarded 2018 Levi I. Conant Prize
The American Mathematical Society honored Henry Cohn with the 2018 Levi I. Conant Prize for his article, “A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing,” which was published in the February 2017 issue of the Notices of the AMS. The annual award recognizes the…
Prix | Cambridge Chamber of Commerce
Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi receive 2017 Visionary Award
The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce in Massachusetts honored Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi and their colleague John Doench at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with a 2017 Visionary Award for their application of machine learning techniques to improve the accuracy and…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Docs
Saving Snow Leopards with Deep Learning and Computer Vision on Spark
Snow leopards are highly endangered animals that inhabit high-altitude steppes and mountainous terrain in Asia and Central Asia. There’s only an estimated 3900-6500 individuals left in the wild. Due the cats’ remote habitat, expansive range and extremely elusive nature, they…
Dans l’actualité | Harvard Business Review
The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain
Just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence? Facebook created a PR firestorm last summer when reporters discovered a human “editorial team”…
Dans l’actualité | NPR
He’s Brilliant, She’s Lovely: Teaching Computers To Be Less Sexist
Computer programs often reflect the biases of their very human creators, but Microsoft researcher Adam Kalai’s latest project â a joint effort with Boston University â has focused on a solution called word embedding.
Aaron Sidford awarded ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention for his dissertation, “Iterative Methods, Combinatorial Optimization, and Linear Programming Beyond the Universal Barrier,” which provides the first theoretical improvements in decades for multiple classic problems ranging from linear programming to…
Prix | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Jennifer Chayes receives John von Neumann Lecture Award
Jennifer Chayes was the recipient of the 2015 John von Neumann Lecture Award, the highest honor of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for her leadership in the research community, as well as seminal contributions to the study of phase transitions in…