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New steps to preserve and protect journalism and local newsrooms
Growing up in Newton, Kansas our local newspaper, The Kansan, was the lifeblood of our community. At 3:30 p.m. every afternoon it landed on porches and lawns across the town, and we saw our local culture reflected in its pages:…
UX writing might appear to be simple, but that's because there's so much more going on beneath the surface. Once you see a customer use a product and experience problems, you understand how much more needs to go into UX…
Awards | MacArthur Foundation
Mary Gray awarded 2020 MacArthur Fellow
Mary L. Gray, Senior Researcher, Anthropologist and Media Scholar, was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, with 20 others in 2020. Mary is investigating the ways in which labor, identity, and human rights are transformed by the digital economy. Cecilia Conrad,…
Awards | International Conference on Software Engineering
Sumit Gulwani and Ashish Tiwari receive ICSE 2020 Most Influential Paper Award
Sumit Gulwani and Ashish Tiwari are this year’s recipients of the ICSE 2020 Most Influential Paper Award from ICSE 2010 for their paper, Oracle-Guided Component-Based Program Synthesis (May 2010). The paper won this award because it has made a significant impact…
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East Limburg Hospital Health Bot: a chatbot as a screening procedure
Hospitals have been under a lot of pressure since the outbreak of COVID-19. In order to protect both patients and staff as best they can, and to safeguard the functioning of the hospital, the East Limburg Hospital (ZOL) in Genk,…
Archai can design your neural network with state-of-the-art neural architecture search (NAS)
| Shital Shah and Debadeepta Dey
The goal of neural architecture search (NAS) (opens in new tab) is to have computers automatically search for the best-performing neural networks. Recent advances in NAS methods have made it possible to build problem-specific networks that are faster, more compact,…
Awards | Muse: Multi-query Event Trend Aggregation
Best short paper award in CIKM’20
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How Capio is using interoperability and conversational intelligence to transform healthcare
“Our doctors and staff were running faster and faster. Like mice on a wheel trying to keep up,” recalls Niklas Sundler, Technology Innovation Director at Ramsay Santé and Capio, as he explains how COVID-19 changed the rules of healthcare delivery…
While technology has helped fill in the gaps that remote work and distance learning have created, humans still crave face-to-face interactions, just like their ancient ancestors. Informed by his time studying and observing primates, our author wonders when, and if,…