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By Stephanie Kanowitz Apr 29, 2021 Members of Montgomery County, Md.’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) are using an artificial intelligence-based system to find COVID-related items in Twitter posts that may call for action. As part of research by a team from Brigham Young University (BYU), George Mason University (GMU), the University of Texas (UT) at Austin and Virginia Tech University, CERT volunteers -- dubbed the Virtual Emergency Response Team (VERT) -- are tagging tweets based ...

IMAGE: Jessica Hallman Silverman, who joined the College of Information Sciences and Technology last year as an assistant professor with a focus in biomedical statistics, made global headlines last summer for his study suggesting that 80% of U.S. COVID-19 cases went undetected in March 2020. He and his research team analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the number of patients who sought medical care for influenza-like illnesses during that time span. That nu...

Building a successful career at MSU 27 Apr 2021 / 10:20 H. Onki Alexander credits his education at MSU for helping him succeed in his career as a lecturer in Indonesia. caption THE worldwide Covid-19 pandemic has left an indelible impact on the lives of everyone, particularly those in the education field. For Jakarta Global University (JGU) lecturer Onki Alexander, the challenges he faced were manifold. “Since Covid-19 started spreading, the education system was affected,” he said. �...

Innovation exhibition unveils tricks to boost the economy April 27, 2021 A researcher explains how the mobile e-governance service digital system works during the exhibition On April 15, the Makerere University Research and Innovation Fund organised an exhibition for the public to engage with some of the researchers and innovators from Makerere University College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS).  As ERNEST JJINGO writes, the Shs 60b...

Florida International University Search FIU receives grant to help increase representation in undergraduate computing The “Best Practice” grant from the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University will allow the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences to work toward making all students feel included while learning computing. April 26, 2021 at 12:30pm FIU has received a “Best Practice,” $625,000 grant from the Center for Inclusive Computing at Nort...

Image: Shutterstock April 23, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State has launched an expanded initiative in artificial intelligence (AI), termed the AI Hub. It will bring together the University’s considerable resources and talent in AI to further advance its position as a global leader developing fundamental innovations in AI, in using AI and machine learning (ML) to solve the hardest challenges, and to create unique applications of AI and ML in unforeseen areas. The hub also will help to ...

Penn State announced Friday an "expanded initiative" in the field of artificial intelligence titled "AI Hub." AI Hub will utilize the universitys resources in artificial intelligence to advance Penn States position in AI innovations, according to a statement from the university. The new initiative will also use machine learning to "solve the hardest challenges, and to create unique applications of AI and ML in unforeseen areas," according to the statement. Lora Weiss, senior vice president for ...

Apr 23, 2021 Africa’s largest privately owned investment management company whose main focus is in generating long term wealth for its clients through innovative methods is hiring for an incredible Intermediate BI Developer. The ideal candidate needs to be very detail oriented, self-driven with an appreciation for data driven systems. You will be required to Build ETL processes utilizing SSIS and DTS, including FTP data from remote location, transform it, mart it to data warehouse and pro...

Educational equity scholarship honors family legacy for IST alumni couple Ankur Tarnacha, left, and his wife Angela Govila have made a gift to create the Govila and Tarnacha Educational Equity Scholarship in the College of Information Sciences and Technology to support IST students from underrepresented backgrounds who have a demonstrated financial need. The couple is pictured here with their daughter Adriane. Image: Provided Educational equity scholarship honors family legacy for IST alumni co...

 E-Mail UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Have you recently turned to your mobile device or computer to find out if your cough, sniffle or fever could be caused by COVID-19? The online symptom checker you used may have advised you to stay home and call your medical provider if symptoms worsen, or perhaps told you that you may be eligible for COVID-19 testing. But why did it make the recommendation it did? And how should you know if you can trust it? Those are questions that researchers at the Penn State...