Choreographer, filmmaker, and dancer, Pontus Lidberg, joined the Center for Ballet and the Arts (CBA) at NYU as a resident fellow during the spring 2019 semester, researching potential applications for artificial intelligence in dance.
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Mimi Yin: Dancing with Machines
During her fellowship with the Center for Ballet and the Arts, Tisch professor Mimi Yin explored the relationship between interactive media and improvised choreography. Yin’s artistic and professorial experience with interactivity and dance fueled the project.
Stern Study: Patients Trust Doctors over Medical AI
Stern professor Andrea Bonezzi and Boston University professors Chiara Longoni and Carey K. Morewedge’s recent study determined that patients trust human physicians more than healthcare provided by medical AI.
Qualitative Research and Artificial Intelligence
A new analysis by NYU research fellow and adjunct professor, Mona Sloane, and CUNY doctoral student, Emmanuel Moss, advocates for implementing qualitative research into AI.
NYU Professor Yann LeCun One of Three Recipients of 2018 Turing Award
Congratulations to NYU professor and Tech Summit keynote speaker Yann LeCun, one of three researchers to receive the 2018 Turing Award. LeCun, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, were honored with the $1 million “Nobel Prize of computing” in recognition of their work in AI deep learning.
HackNYU 2019 Winners
The winners of HackNYU 2019 are in! Twenty-one projects took home awards in a field full of innovative, novel ideas that were developed over the 48 hours of the hackathon, which included 13 winners across the hackathon’s tracks and 11 additional awards from sponsors and partners.
Researchers Use HPC Resources and AI in Cancer Research
Researchers1 from the NYU School of Medicine made use of NYU High Performance Computing (HPC) resources and Google’s deep learning artificial intelligence algorithm to advance the understanding of lung cancer and mutations in tumors. Using Google’s Inception v3 (an open-source algorithm) and the HPC neural network, they were able to accurately differentiate between two different […]
Expansion of NYU IT High Performance Computing Resources
As part of its ongoing mission to remain at the cutting edge of high performance computing (HPC) and provide the best resources for researchers whose projects require HPC services, NYU IT’s HPC group, part of Research Technology, has recently undertaken significant expansion of its offerings. In particular, the HPC group is building a foundation to […]