Teaching AI That Names Don’t Matter
Alice is older than Bob. Bob is older than Carol. Who is the oldest? Alice, of course. Now replace “Alice” with “Sarah” and ask again: the answer is Sarah. The logic is exactly the same, and a person would never be thrown by the swap. The AI systems we increasingly rely on can be. That […]
Engineering a Less Invasive Path to Earlier Lung Cancer Detection
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death in the US, making interdisciplinary approaches to combating it increasingly important. That is what one PhD candidate at Boston University is devoting his time to. Chae Woo Lim, a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering working under Dr. Sheila Russo at BU’s Material Robotics Laboratory, works with […]