George R.R. Martin probably has nothing to worry about — yet. But fans who have been waiting for years for a new chapter in the popular fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire — the basis for HBO’s Game of Thrones — saga are getting a little taste of ...

Jacques Mattheij didn’t expect to buy two tons of Lego bricks. But that’s what happened after an evening of bidding — or rather, overbidding — on bulk lots of used bricks on eBay. His plan was to resell the bricks at a profit. But he won more than ...

Flesh and blood. Bones and guts. As humans we feel nothing more viscerally — in the most literal sense — than our health. That makes this year’s gathering of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Society — MICCAI 2017 — in ...

How do you safely send a human being to inspect a petroleum refinery flare stack — one that operates at hundreds of degrees and requires negotiating a high-risk vertical climb? The answer is you don’t. Yet this important work is at the heart of a ...

We’re upgrading AI for healthcare. The research team at the Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS) today received the world’s first purpose-built AI supercomputer from the all-new portfolio of NVIDIA DGX systems with Volta. CCDS was founded by ...

To the throngs of those who’ve put down their complicated digital SLR cameras in favor of easy-to-use smartphones, Ryan Stout has a message: Not so fast. Stout is the founder, CEO and lead developer of Arsenal, a six-person, Montana-based startup ...

How do you teach your robot to learn? This is the question that Sergey Levine, an assistant professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley is trying to answer. “One of the most important things is that you ...

If you’re a university student with a passion for AI, we want to talk to you. Universities are only recently reopening for learning, but our recruiters have already launched their fall search for interns and new hires. We’re seeking the best and ...

In the bustling world of financial services, with continuous market fluctuations, numbers are king. One investment firm aims to harness the onslaught of qualitative information out there, using AI to wrangle to its advantage a surprising challenger ...

High school’s usually closed during the summer, but our inaugural batch of young “Jetson” interns never stopped learning. Over the course of seven weeks, we hosted 12 high schoolers to work with our embedded computing group, which focuses on ...