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‘Don’t Put Your Head in the Sand’: Stars Are Quietly Inking Deals to License Their AI Doubles

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In 2008, while working with Will Smith on the set of a film that never ended up getting made, Remington Scott had an epiphany. The visual effects director was watching Smith stand in a photogrammetry booth, with dozens of cameras capturing the actor’s facial features from every possible angle. “.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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After graduating in 1997 with a master’s degree in computer science, he left General Physics and became a computer science consultant. He retired in 2008. From 2008 to 2022, he served as an adjunct professor at Anne Arundel Community College , in Arnold, Md.,

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Groundbreaking AI Accurately Predicts People's Time Of Death

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The AI model, named "life2vec," was published in the journal Nature Computational Science. The data focused on an individual's education, visits to doctors and hospitals, diagnoses, income and occupation from 2008 to 2020.

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ICML 2021 Invited Speakers — ML for Science

Machine Learning (Theory)

She was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she served on the faculty for 18 years. She was the co-founder, co-CEO and President of Coursera, and the Chief Computing Officer of Calico, an Alphabet company in the healthcare space.

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Meet the Research Scientist: Shirley Ho

NYU Center for Data Science

Ho’s academic journey began at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated summa cum laude with dual bachelors degrees in physics and computer science. She then pursued her PhD in Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, completing her doctorate in 2008 under the guidance of renowned cosmologist David Spergel.

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Creating Go with Russ Cox (Google) - S04E03

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Russ Cox has been working on the programming language Go at Google since 2008 and is currently the Go project lead. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He joined Google directly after completing his Ph.D.

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TILTomorrow today: dynamic factors predicting changes in intracranial pressure treatment intensity after traumatic brain injury

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We extracted all heterogeneous data (2008 pre-ICU and ICU variables) collected from a prospective cohort (n = 844, 51 ICUs) of ICP-monitored TBI patients in the Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI study.