Bayer, the pharmaceutical company that owns big name brands such as Aspirin, Aleve, Midol, Cenesten and Iberogast, recently partnered with Ada Health, an AI-based assessment platform. This free app uses an AI chat robot to collect information on symptoms, patient history and other user targeted questions to generate data-driven suggestions for next steps and proper care. “Ada’s technology is based on a custom-built reasoning engine and a highly comprehensive medical knowledge base, covering thousands of conditions. In fact, in a recent vignettes study testing the eight most popular online symptom assessment apps, Ada was proven to have the most comprehensive condition coverage, providing a condition suggestion 99% of the time, […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Pharma Giant, Bayer, partners with AI-based Assessment Platform
December 1st, 2021 / in AI, CCC-led white papers, Healthcare, robotics / by Maddy HunterNITRD 30th Anniversary Commemoration
November 30th, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC, NITRD, NSF / by Helen WrightJoin us on Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 12pm EST for a special virtual event marking the 30th anniversary of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. For three decades, the NITRD program has coordinated federal investment at the frontiers of computing, networking, data, and software, leading to many of the breakthrough information technologies that define our lives today, like the modern Internet as well as 4G, LTE, and 5G wireless networks, expanding access to broadband connectivity, information, and other resources; vehicle-to-vehicle communication, enhancing driver safety and reducing traffic congestion; and machine learning and predictive modeling, advancing understanding of human diseases like COVID-19 leading to therapeutics. Advance registration for the […]
Brandeis Marshall presents on Marginalization in Data Education
November 29th, 2021 / in AI, CCC / by Maddy HunterBrandeis Marshall, Professor of Computer Science at Spelman College, will present as a part of Columbia University Data Science Institute’s Race + Data Science Lecture Series. Marshall’s presentation, “Waking up to Marginalization in Data Education” will address racial marginalization as a result of computing practices and possible ways to combat bias. The presentation will be held Wednesday December 1, 2021 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET. You can register for the event here. Brandeis Marshall Bio: Brandeis teaches, speaks and writes about the impact of data practices on technology and society. Her work contributes to the data engineering, data science, and data/computer science education fields. Through Dr. Marshall’s data […]
Great Innovative Idea: Robot Language Learning
November 23rd, 2021 / in Great Innovative Idea, research horizons, robotics / by Maddy HunterThe following Great Innovative Idea is from Yonatan Bisk, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and member of the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. The Idea Language learning requires physically existing in the world (not being just a brain in a jar). A child doesn’t learn language from reading Wikipedia. They build rich models of the world by seeing and doing. They understand other humans as socially intelligent and cooperative agents with whom to speak and from whom to learn. Yet, natural language “understanding” systems have focused on training in an impoverished disembodied text-only setting — trying to download as much text off the internet and […]
Blue Sky at HCOMP 2021
November 22nd, 2021 / in Announcements, Blue Sky, CCC / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at The Ninth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), November 14-18, 2021. FIRST- The Science of Rejection: A Research Area for Human Computation (video) Burcu Sayin, Jie Yang, Andrea Passerini and Fabio Casati SECOND – Human Computation and Crowdsourcing for Earth (video) Yasaman Rohanifar, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sharifa Sultana, Prateek Chanda and Malay Bhattacharyya THIRD – Human in the Loop for Machine Creativity (video) Neo Christopher Chung CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you to apply for a Blue Sky Ideas track at your conference! Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program committee […]
Apply for the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
November 18th, 2021 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasThe Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) recently announced the start of the application period to attend the 9th annual HLF, which will take place September 18–23, 2022 in Heidelberg, Germany. From the call for applications: Young researchers in computer science and mathematics from all over the world can apply for one of the 200 coveted spots to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), an annual networking event. The HLF offers all accepted young researchers the great opportunity to interact with the laureates of the most prestigious prizes in the fields of mathematics and computer science. Traditionally, the recipients of the Abel Prize, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the ACM Prize […]
