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New system cleans messy data tables automatically May 12, 2021MIT MIT researchers have created a new system that automatically cleans “dirty data” —  the typos, duplicates, missing values, misspellings, and inconsistencies dreaded by data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists. The system, called PClean, is the latest in a series of domain-specific probabilistic programming languages written by researchers at the Probabilistic Computing Project that aim to simplify and automate th...

May 12 at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will celebrate the stories of women, minorities and persons with disabilities in STEM who are making a difference in our communities and around the world. Centered on the 2021 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering report, the event will feature perspectives and insights from the following speakers and more: Emilda Rivers, Ellen Ochoa,

According to surveys conducted by Anaconda and Figure Eight, data cleaning can take a quarter of a data scientists time. Automating the task is challenging because different datasets require different types of cleaning, and common-sense judgment calls about objects in the world are often needed (e.g., which of several cities called “Beverly Hills” someone lives in). PClean provides generic common-sense models for these kinds of judgment calls that can be customized to specific databases and...

         The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Todays panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and UAlbany adjunct professor Rosemary Armao, Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI and Director of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence research collaboration Jim Hendler, and former Associate Editor of The Times Union Mike Spain. Tags: 

Share Michale Fee, the Glen V. and Phyllis F. Dorflinger Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has been named as the new head of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), effective May 1. Fee, who also is an investigator in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, succeeds James DiCarlo, the Peter de Florez Professor of Neuroscience, who announced in December that he was stepping down to become director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence. “I want to thank Jim for his imp...

Broader Impacts 12:50 – 1:20 p.m. New SBE Funding Opportunities 1:20 – 1:35 p.m.                  SBE Contributions to Research, Development and Equity Dr. Arthur Lupia, AD, SBE 1:35 – 1:50 p.m.   2021 TBD, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) 1:50 – 2:20 p.m.                  Break Evidence Act and a National Secure Data Service Implementation Challenges to Implementation Dr. Amy O’Hara, Research Professor, Massive Data Institute and Exe...

Credits: Photo: Justin Knight/McGovern Institute for Brain Research Previous image Next image Michale Fee, the Glen V. and Phyllis F. Dorflinger Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has been named as the new head of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), effective May 1. Fee, who also is an investigator in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, succeeds James DiCarlo, the Peter de Florez Professor of Neuroscience, who announced in D...

IBEC researchers discover the neural mechanism of autonomous learning Thanks to the so-called deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms inspired by the brain, machines can match human performance in perception and language recognition and even outperform humans in certain tasks. But do these synthetic biologically inspired systems learn in the same way that we do? According to a new article by first author Dr. Diogo Santos-Pata from the Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and...

Credit: Brainx3.com, SPECS lab. Thanks to the so-called deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms inspired by the brain, machines can match human performance in perception and language recognition and even outperform humans in certain tasks. But do these synthetic biologically inspired systems learn in the same way that we do? According to a new article by first author Dr. Diogo Santos-Pata from the Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems lab (SPECS) at IBE...

Credits: Image: M. Scott Brauer Caption: Developing these new computation models would be a major step toward developing new ways to help people who suffer from hearing loss, says McDermott, who recently earned tenure in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Credits: Image: M. Scott Brauer Previous image Next image The human auditory system is a marvel of biology. It can follow a ...