Social sciences
Accelerating data science at the Alan Turing Institute with Microsoft Azure
Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute in the United Kingdom are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to push the state of the art in data science to better understand what makes us happy, angry…
Opportunities abound in the creative and collaborative culture of STEM
The explosion of data available today everywhere from biomedicine to the arts is opening new opportunities for researchers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math to pursue creative and collaborative endeavors that have deep…
Multimodal Devices: Learnings from Multisensory Perception and Plasticity
We often think about perceptual experiences one modality at a time; we “see” this or we “hear” that, etc. These distinctions often imply that our perception of each sense is independent from each other. Research…
Counting every person on Earth to eradicate poverty and empower women
The number one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to eliminate poverty, leaving nobody behind. Researchers in the United Kingdom are harnessing the large-scale data-processing power of Microsoft Azure to map the location of every…
What 151,000,000 Calories Burned in a Single VR Game Says About the Future of Exercise
In April of 2016, an early VR title called Audioshield was released on Steam, the largest PC gaming community in the world. According to Steam stats, gamers have played more than 693,000 hours of Audioshield…
Artificial Social Intelligence
Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have typically shown that AI systems are good at solving specific tasks that have a well-defined goal, such as Speech Recognition, Image Captioning, Games like Poker/Go/Jeopardy, among others. However, as…
