2016 News Archive
How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too
November 22, 2016
Round table explores opportunities for data science collaboration
November 8, 2016
A data science round table brought representatives from a dozen industries to the University of Rochester last week to explore opportunities for collaboration. Much of the discussion involved how cooperation between industry and the University could help address such issues as soaring health care costs, the challenges involved in sharing data, and finding ways to retain graduates with computational skills in upstate New York.
Continue ReadingEvery Asian American has been asked this question. A computer gives the best answer.
October 21, 2016
Digital public health presents opportunities, challenges
September 19, 2016
Two researchers recently visited the University of Rochester to make the case for harnessing big data mined from social media to aid public and environmental health efforts. King-wa Fu and Matthew R. Auer presented their insights during a seminar sponsored by the Center for Energy and Environment and the Goergen Institute for Data Science.
Continue ReadingStanford Conducts One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)
September 1, 2016
Three health analytics projects receive pilot funding
August 25, 2016
Three teams of researchers from the University of Rochester are recipients of pilot funding from the University’s Goergen Institute for Data Science. The institute has identified health analytics — leveraging large sets of clinical, genomic, and lifestyle data to predict individual health outcomes — as one of its top priorities.
Continue ReadingEhsan Hoque: MIT Technology Review ‘Innovator under 35’
August 23, 2016
This is your brain on sentences
August 12, 2016
Researchers, including CoE Distinguished Researcher, Rajeev Raizada, at the University of Rochester have, for the first time, decoded and predicted the brain activity patterns of word meanings within sentences, and successfully predicted what the brain patterns would be for new sentences.
Continue ReadingAvangrid Foundation Announces Recipients of Scholarships Supporting Energy, Data Science and Environmental Research
August 11, 2016
10 years later, ‘inconsequential’ tweets a boon for researchers
July 15, 2016
Thomas Howard wins Best Paper Award at the Robotics Science & Systems conference
July 11, 2016
Cloud computing changes the way we practice public speaking
June 15, 2016
People often rank public speaking as the number one fear that they face. New cloud-based technology from researchers at the University of Rochester lets speakers polish and practice at home in front of their computer camera, while the analysis provides instant feedback about improvement.
Continue ReadingMachine Learning Is Redefining The Enterprise In 2016
June 4, 2016
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Speakers
June 1, 2016
Urban Impact Through Social Entrepreneurship
May 12, 2016
Rochester’s first data science graduates delve into big data
May 10, 2016
The inaugural crop of students in Rochester’s new data science programs are completing their first year of study. Some are completing their degrees, having finished a year of graduate study or having gotten started early by taking prerequisites for an undergraduate degree. Others are just beginning. But what unites them all is an enthusiasm for discovering ways to make the most of information.
Continue ReadingYoung women are unfollowing Hillary Clinton more than any other 2016 candidate
May 2, 2016
Collaborative Pilot Award Program in Health Data Analytics: Request for Pilot Award Applications
April 29, 2016
The purpose of this initial Pilot Award Program by the Goergen Institute for Data Science is to promote new cross campus, multidisciplinary collaborations with a goal to utilize data to predict and improve health outcomes. Application deadline: June 7, 2016
Continue ReadingThree ways artificial intelligence is helping to save the world
April 26, 2016
DandyHacks 2016
April 25, 2016
Data science senior, Ulrik Soderstrom, receives Percy Dutton Prize
April 15, 2016
RocHackHealth: A Path Toward New Solutions to Health Care Issues
April 12, 2016
Winners of the Dandyhacks 2016 hackathon have been announced
April 8, 2016
Chief Scientist At 1-Page Reveals How To Get Started In Machine Learning
April 4, 2016
Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Chief Scientist at 1-Page, Alex Smola, discusses the skills needed for a career in machine learning. The skills mentioned are incorporated into the University of Rochester's undergraduate and graduate degree in data science.
Continue ReadingTwo students receive Davis Projects for Peace grant
March 28, 2016
Data science major, Ian Manzi '18, and geology major, Derrick Murekezi '19, were selected to receive a $10,000 grant from Davis Projects for Peace, a highly competitive national program that promotes peace and intercultural understanding. The two will use the funding to implement their summer project, titled “Critical Thinking for Peace: Sustaining Peace in Post-Conflict Regions,” in Rwanda this July.
Continue ReadingCan a computer tell if you’re drinking while tweeting?
March 21, 2016
Parkinson’s App Celebrates Milestone, Featured by Apple
March 21, 2016
University of Rochester studies drunk tweets
March 18, 2016
Twitter Facial Analysis Reveals Demographics of Presidential Campaign Followers
March 18, 2016
The University of Rochester's Yu Wang and his research team have analyzed the Twitter follower demographics of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. They study both candidates’ followers, their user names, geographical information and each follower’s number of followers to determine their influence.
Continue ReadingPaying attention to words not just images leads to better captions
March 15, 2016
Algorithm reads tweets to figure out which restaurants make you sick
March 8, 2016
Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts
March 6, 2016
Creating a Human "Check Engine Light"
March 5, 2016
Computer Science as Liberal Arts Enabler
February 23, 2016
Pic-scanning AI estimates city air pollution from mass of photos
February 5, 2016
Last year, UR's Jiebo Luo and his research group trained a neural network to sort photos taken at Beijing tourist attractions by haze levels.
Continue Reading‘Big Data’ generates need for ‘Data Diplomacy’
January 28, 2016
