Author » Oliver Peckham
NSF Awards $5M to AI-Powered Wildfire Management Tool
With another brutal wildfire season in the western U.S. beginning to wane in the face of rains and cooler temperatures, researchers are still racing to develop more effective means of wildfire mitigation for seasons to c Read more…
Only You Can Prevent… Fire Tornadoes?
Another devastating wildfire season has shaken the western United States, causing tens of billions of dollars in damage. In recent years, terrifying weather combinations have become more prominent in these wildfires, suc Read more…
AI Enables Improved, Lightweight Hurricane Intensity Predictions
Hurricane prediction still poses challenges for researchers, who scramble to produce accurate predictions of the formation, track, and intensity of tropical cyclones in order to give residents in the storm’s path the i Read more…
In Pittsburgh, Two-Step Machine Learning Process Sorts Rare Stamps
Setting aside the relatively recent rise of electronic signatures, personalized stamps have been a popular form of identification for formal documents in East Asia. These identifiers – easily forged, but culturally ubi Read more…
Deep Learning Targets Drug Combos for COVID-19
Using computational biology to identify individual therapeutics that might prove effective in the fight against COVID-19 is already a daunting task, with billions of candidate molecules. Throw drug combinations into the Read more…
FinTech Firm Explores Named Entity Extraction
Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Digits Financial combines machine learning and analytics to give businesses insights into their transactions, automatically identifying patterns, classifying data, and detecting anoma Read more…
Database Firm SingleStore Scores $80M in Series F Funding
SingleStore has announced a successful Series F funding round, netting $80 million in primary capital funding. The database firm, which offers both managed cloud database services and database software, has now raised a Read more…
UF’s AI Supercomputer Works on Improving Cattle Yields
The average American consumes over 58 pounds of beef and 141 pounds of milk per year, but cattle farming is a deeply resource-intensive process with significant impacts on land use and carbon emissions – so any gains i Read more…