Monthly Archives: June 2018

IBM just demonstrated a deep-learning system that is a follow-on of sorts to the Watson Jeopardy demonstration from several years ago.  For this IBM Debater project, Watson was trained to intelligently debate on approximately 100 different topics.  In this particular … Continue reading →

The Google Scholar resource ranks the top journals and conferences using a fully automated h-index score.  The h-index is named after Jorge Hirsch, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), who proposed the index to determine theoretical … Continue reading →

The CSAIL group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have improved the state-of-the art in inferring road networks from satellite imagery.  This is a time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone process that has traditionally relied on human inputs.  Open Street Map … Continue reading →