Why do people still get print newspapers? Well, partly to start up the grill (seriously)
“Appropriating the newspaper is tied to non-news practices which are meaningful to the actors, although they might seem trivial to some scholars.”
April 20, 2021, 9:22 a.m.
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At the Forefront of Machine Learning
Computer scientist Derry Wijaya builds tools to translate low-resource languages and track how media perspectives shape public opinion
May 19, 2020 |
By Jeremy Schwab
In an analog world, translating from one language to another was often done with the help of a dictionary. In today’s digital world, with access to incredibly fast computer algorithms and a vast amount of data, researchers are building a new landscape for language translation. And because computers are the ones doing the translating in this new reality, the landscape is one that a machine can understand. Derry Wijaya, a computer scientist at CAS and a pioneer in this new space, explains.