BY GINA MANTICA Robots navigate around a room thanks to cameras and algorithms that help them process images. But, as a robot starts moving around, so does the camera’s field of view. To control a robot’s movements and prevent it from crashing into objects, it needs to excel at change detection – or the process […]
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a global health problem. Almost half the adults over the age of 75 have some form of knee OA—one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Because there is no cure for knee OA, current treatment relies on accurately identifying and staging the disease. Using an Artificial Intelligence-based approach known as […]
BY: GINA MANTICA In today’s virtual world, equal access to online resources is more important than ever before. But online texts aren’t available in all 7,000 languages, and most machine translation programs are limited to Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and several European languages. Researchers from Boston University and Institut Teknologi Bandung developed an innovative method to […]
A team of researchers from the Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Media (AIEM), which is housed in the Hariri Institute for Computing and is part of the Artificial Intelligence (AIR) Initiative, is studying how media outlets from different countries are covering the COVID-19 pandemic. In an article published recently in BU The Brink, Lei Guo, Assistant Professor of Communication and […]
The development of AI is perceived as an environmental concern. As AI continues to grow, so does the energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many scientists, researchers, and developers ore often oblivious or fail to recognize the environmental impact of their AI projects. To shed light on how AI impacts the environment, the publication PC Mag published an article that […]
This past March, the Honda Research Institute led an information session covering their special track offered as part of the Hariri Institute’s Research Incubation Awards. The talk was given to a full seminar room at the Hariri Institute for Computing as BU faculty members were given some insights into their proposal ideas. Explicitly, in their […]
Kate Saenko is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. She is also the founder and co-director of the Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence with a specific focus on dataset bias, adaptive machine learning, learning for image and language understanding, and deep learning. […]
Founding Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing Professor Azer Bestavros wrote an article featured in BU Today called “Artificial Intelligence Has a Powerful Brain, but It Still Needs a Heart.” In the world of growing technology, Professor Bestavros argues that we need to make sure artificial intelligence being adapted is ethical and beneficial for […]
Earlier this week Emily Whiting and Xiaoting Zhang were highlighted in BU Today’s “The Brink” magazine. The article entitled “Fabric Gives Form to a New DIY Manufacturing Method.” featured their project that focuses on combining computer science and a fabrication process known as fabric framework. Fabric framework makes it easier to create large-scale custom shapes from scratch. […]
Earlier this week VentureBeat.com wrote an article entitled “Boston University Researchers Develop Framework to Improve AI Fairness.” In the article, a research paper called, “From Soft Classifiers to Hard Decisions: How Fair Can We Be?” is highlighted for the explanation of how we are trusting AI algorithms to make critical decisions sometimes unfairly. This is especially […]