Helping Companies Optimize Their Websites And Mobile Apps
Creating a good customer experience increasingly means creating a good digital experience. But metrics like pageviews and clicks offer limited insight into how much customers actually like a digital product. That’s the problem the digital optimization company Amplitude is solving. Amplitude gives companies a clearer picture into how users interact with their digital products to …
“AI For Impact” Lives Up To Its Name
For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point. With the onset of the pandemic, that goal came into even sharper focus. Just weeks before the campus shut down in 2020, a team of …
Stanford Engineers Develop Algorithm To Aid Kidney Transplant Exchanges
A historic kidney transplant exchange recently took place in the Middle East, but it might never have transpired without an algorithm developed at Stanford by Itai Ashlagi, a Stanford associate professor of management science and engineering, and his graduate student Sukolsak Sakshuwong. In all, three ailing recipients received life-sustaining transplants while three healthy donors gave kidneys. In …
Combining AI With Human Perspective To Get Forecasts Right
2020 saw the worst wildfire season on the West Coast of the U.S. since records have been kept. By the end of the year, roughly 4% of California’s acreage had been burned, an area roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island. The fires also broke the weather forecasts. When there are active wildfires, …
First-Of-Its-kind Stanford Machine Learning Tool Streamlines Student Feedback Process For Computer Science Professors
This past spring, Stanford University computer scientists unveiled their pandemic brainchild, Code In Place, a project where 1,000 volunteer teachers taught 10,000 students across the globe the content of an introductory Stanford computer science course. While the instructors could share their knowledge with hundreds, even thousands, of students at a time during lectures, when it …
Darktrace AI Stops 4,000 Threats A Week At Fashion Brand Ted Baker
Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI, announced that its Self-Learning AI is being used to intercept 4,000 cyber-threats every week at Ted Baker. The quintessentially British global lifestyle brand has revealed that, of these cyber-threats, over 200 are targeted attacks. These include spear phishing emails devised to reach high-level executives, and cyber campaigns that …
Registrations Ongoing For Virtual Forum On Industrial Machine Learning Applications
Registration is open through July 29 for the first-ever Machine Learning for Industry Forum (ML4I), a three-day virtual event starting Aug. 10. The forum aims to foster and illustrate the adoption of machine learning methods for practical industrial outcomes, with a strong emphasis on manufacturing. Over the course of the event, attendees will engage in …
Getting Dressed With Help From Robots
Basic safety needs in the paleolithic era have largely evolved with the onset of the industrial and cognitive revolutions. We interact a little less with raw materials, and interface a little more with machines. Robots don’t have the same hardwired behavioral awareness and control, so secure collaboration with humans requires methodical planning and coordination. You …
New Chemistry Enables Using Existing Technology To Print Stretchable, Bendable Circuits On Artificial Skin
Chemical engineer Zhenan Bao and her team of researchers at Stanford have spent nearly two decades trying to develop skin-like integrated circuits that can be stretched, folded, bent and twisted – working all the while – and then snap back without fail, every time. Such circuits presage a day of wearable and implantable products, but one hurdle …
Sweat-Proof “Smart Skin” Takes Reliable Vitals, Even During Workouts And Spicy Meals
MIT engineers and researchers in South Korea have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” — a conformable, sensor-embedded sticky patch that monitors a person’s health without malfunctioning or peeling away, even when a wearer is perspiring. The patch is patterned with artificial sweat ducts, similar to pores in human skin, that the researchers etched through the …