In December 2016, The University of Chicago Medical Center signed a contract with Google on a research partnership which would allow the latter to use de-identified data from the Center’s electronic health records to improve on its predictive analytics power. Last June, a class-action was filed in t
Although lockdown, contact tracing; quarantine and social distancing are measures widely exercised by many countries to prevent the spread of coronavirus during Covid-19 pandemic, it’s challenging to quantify their respective efficacy. This is especially so as some may have infected others before th
Recently, four researchers from Google invented a program called “AutoML-Zero”. It is a software that is capable of creating new artificial intelligence (AI) programs without human interventions by relying only on rudimentary high school mathematical concepts. Borrowing the concept of Darwinian evol
Last month, the White House announced the launch of the Covid-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. The initiative aimed to render researchers around the world with access to some of the most powerful computing resources and assist in their respective effort to combat against the ongoing coronav
How AI is rising to the challenge of COVID-19 and it’s critical role in eradicating future pandemics
Last Thursday (9 April), 40 hospitals under the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) became the first American healthcare institutions to be part of an international treatment trial called REMAP-COVID19 which aimed to find an effective intervention for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On
Charles Darwin regarded facial expressions as the windows to animals’ as well as human’s emotions. However, making sense of what’s written on our faces has never been an easy task. Recently, a group of researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Germany had successfully used a machine
Optical imaging employs light as a medium to non-invasively look into the cellular and molecular functions inside a body. It has significant in vivo applications like assisting in surgeries or examining the brains. A group of researchers at Purdue University is now bringing the technology a step fur
Around 30 researchers from four Finnish institutions (i.e., Aalto University, Finnish Meteorological Institute, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and University of Helsinki) investigated how far aerosol particles are being spread from one’s cough, sneeze and talk into his/her surrounding envi