Artificial Intelligence News Feed

ISI Spotlight: Emily Sheng, PhD candidate
Learn more about the talented people that make up ISI

One Tool to Rule Them All: ISI Postdoctoral Researcher’s Ontology Wizard Wins Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award recipient Daniel Garijo created a tool to simplify a notoriously tedious process for ontology developers.

Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence Enhanced for Particle Physics
Quantum machine catalyzes machine learning efforts in Higgs identification challenge

ISI Computer Scientist Participates in Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Fred Morstatter was one of 21 top US students and postdoctoral researchers sponsored to attend the forum.

An Extra Challenge in a Crisis: Dealing with Rare Languages
Information Sciences Institute researchers work on the holy grail of machine translation: a universal system that supports the world’s languages — all 7,000 of them

Everything a Computer Wanted to Know About Humans (But was Too Afraid to Ask)
Fifteen years in the making, a new book by ICT’s Andrew Gordon and ISI’s Jerry Hobbs, dubbed “a computer’s guide to humans,” hits the shelves September 7.

A Rose is a Rose is an Algorithm: ISI Students Create Award-Winning Interactive Poetry Generator
ISI students win Best Demo Award at 2017 ACL conference for their interactive poetry generation system

ISI Computer Scientist Wins Best Paper Award for Entity Resolution Breakthrough
Mayank Kejriwal’s award-winning dissertation describes a set of algorithms designed to automatically populate a core data integration component.

What’s Going On: Answering Questions With Web Corpora
AI researcher Pedro Szekely describes how cloud-based Domain-Specific Insight Graphs plumb the dark and open web

ISI Postdoctoral Scholar Chosen for Prestigious Program
The ACM’s Future of Computing Academy (FCA) aims to foster interdisciplinary, next-generation computer scientists to tackle challenges in computing and society at large.