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Machine learning helps in the search for new antibiotics

Research identifies new types of clusters of genes in the DNA code that could possibly code for 'precursors' that will later become proteins with antibiotic effects.
29 March 2021, by

Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence – a summary from the co-chairs

Find out more about the event and the activities that took place.
23 March 2021, by and

CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative Video Series: Meet the Team Leaders – Marco Aldinucci

Learn more about the image analysis topic group in the CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative.

Michael Wooldridge: Talking to the public about AI – #EAAI2021 invited talk

Michael shares lessons learnt from his science communication experiences.
17 March 2021, by

Climate action focus series round-up – interviews, research summaries, webinars and more

In this summary article we highlight some of work at the intersection of AI and climate science.
16 March 2021, by



Daphne Koller: Digital learning coming to life – #AAAI2021 invited talk

At AAAI 2021, Daphne Koller gave a plenary talk about digital learning. In this presentation she discussed the different motivations for online learning, what we know about effective learning, digital...
11 March 2021, by

CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative Video Series: Meet the Team Leaders – Manlio De Domenico

In interview number six in this series of Meet the Team Leaders from the CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative, we hear from Manlio De Domenico, Head of the Complex Multilayer Networks Lab, Fondazione Bruno Kess...

Using machine learning to create texts for people with reading difficulties

The aim of the TextAD research project at Linköping University is to better understand different types of reading difficulties.
10 March 2021, by

Monitoring the climate crisis with AI, satellites and drones – a workshop at NeurIPS2020

As part of the workshop programme at NeurIPS2020, Climate Change AI (CCAI) held an all-day session on "Tackling climate change with machine learning". They also organised a side event on “Monitoring...
09 March 2021, by

Focus on life below water: call for contributions

We are launching the next topic in our focus series on the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). In April we will start publishing posts relating the goal of “life below water”, which is SDG nu...
08 March 2021, by

Team formation techniques in education

Our research uses combinatorial optimisation techniques to study team formation.
04 March 2021, by

Interview with Konstantin Klemmer – talking Climate Change AI and geographic data research

Hear from AI researcher and communications chair for Climate Change AI.
02 March 2021, by

Interview with Amy McGovern – creating trustworthy AI for environmental science applications

Dr Amy McGovern leads the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES), and is based at the University of Oklahoma. We spoke about her research...
24 February 2021, by

Equitable climate mitigation – a webinar from Climate Change AI

In this webinar from Climate Change AI you can hear from panellists in industry and academia as they discuss climate change mitigation. They consider how we can tackle climate change while addressing ...
22 February 2021, by

CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative Video Series: Meet the Team Leaders – Marco Maratea

In interview number five in this series of Meet the Team Leaders from the CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative, we hear from Marco Maratea, Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei ...

Digital technology and the planet – a report from the Royal Society

In December 2020, the Royal Society published a report on Digital Technology and the Planet: Harnessing computing to achieve net zero. In his foreword, Professor Andy Hopper, Vice President of the Roy...
19 February 2021, by

Helping decision-makers manage resilience under different climate change scenarios: global vs local

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fifth assessment report states that warming of the climate system is unequivocal and notes that each of the last three decades has been successivel...
18 February 2021, by

Physics-constrained deep learning of building thermal dynamics

Energy-efficient buildings are one of the top priorities to sustainably address the global energy demands and reduction of CO2 emissions. Advanced control strategies for buildings have been identified...

Researchers use deep learning to identify gene regulation at single-cell level

Clustering performance comparison when different thresholds and parameters are changed. Figure taken from Predicting transcription factor binding in single cells through deep learning, published under...
16 February 2021, by

CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative Video Series: Meet the Team Leaders – Jose Sousa

In the next interview in this series of Meet the Team Leaders from the CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative, we hear from Jose Sousa, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast....

Observing air quality and flow in cities for public health in times of climate change

Sentinel 5P satellite for monitoring urban heat islands and the air pollution. Image source: Sharing Earth Observational Resources. With my co-authors Pablo Torres, Sergio Hoyas (both from Institut...
12 February 2021, by

Good health and well-being: summarising AI and robotics in healthcare – diagnostics, personalised care, drug discovery, and more

In December 2020 we announced the launch of our focus series AI for Good: UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Each month we pick a different sustainable development goal (SDG) and highlight work ...
11 February 2021, by

Focus on quality education: call for contributions

We are launching the third topic in our focus series on the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). In March we will start publishing posts relating the goal of "quality education", which is SDG numb...
10 February 2021, by

#AAAI2021 invited talk – Regina Barzilay on deploying machine learning methods in cancer diagnosis and drug design

In September 2020, Regina Barzilay was announced as the winner of the inaugural AAAI Squirrel AI award. Regina was formally presented with the prize during an award ceremony at the AAAI2021 conference...
09 February 2021, by

Deep learning microscope for rapid tissue imaging

Rice University engineering researchers Yubo Tang (left) and Mary Jin are members of a team that used deep learning to optimize both image collection and image post-processing in a new type of microsc...
04 February 2021, by

AI and climate change – a virtual briefing with Climate Change AI researchers

In December, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung hosted a virtual briefing featuring researchers from Climate Change AI (CCAI). They talked about the role machine learning can play in facilitating climate change ...
03 February 2021, by

AIhub launches focus series on climate action

As part of our ongoing focus on the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), we are launching the second topic in this series: climate action. Posts on this topic will be featured on our website throu...
03 February 2021, by

CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative Video Series: Meet the Team Leaders – Ann Nowé

In the third interview in this series of Meet the Team Leaders from the CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative, we hear from Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium....

Using AI-enhanced music-supported therapy to assist stroke patients

Stroke currently ranks as the second most common cause of death and the second most common cause of disability worldwide. Motor deficits of the upper extremity (hemiparesis) are the most common and de...
26 January 2021, by






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