computer science
Purdue professor spearheads project to detect doctored images: BTN LiveBIG
Purdue professor spearheads project to detect doctored images: BTN LiveBIG
Within millions of images a day, which can we trust?
BTN LiveBIG: Best of … Illinois
BTN LiveBIG: Best of … Illinois
At the intersection of academics and innovation lie Champaign and Urbana. [btn-post-package]When it comes to success in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, few colleges can claim to be on the same level as the University of Illinois. The list of Illini alumni in these areas is long and distinguished, and includes names […]
BTN LiveBIG: Best of … Michigan
BTN LiveBIG: Best of … Michigan
[btn-post-package]Including the phrase ?the leaders and best? in your school?s fight song is a pretty bold move. But when it comes to Michigan, it?s not just idle boasting. From its winged helmets to ?The Big House,? from Fielding Yost?s ?Point a Minute? football teams to Tom Brady and Charles Woodson, the university?s athletics have always […]
BTN LiveBIG: For Michigan professor, computer science is much more than a job
BTN LiveBIG: For Michigan professor, computer science is much more than a job
Thanks to Jason Mars, ?Siri? could get a whole lot more effective in the years to come. An assistant professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, Mars and his team of researchers built their own intelligent assistant, named Sirius, which features voice-command and image-matching capabilities. They released Sirius in March 2015 to the […]
BTN LiveBIG: OSU alum brings innovation, opportunity to Central Ohio
BTN LiveBIG: OSU alum brings innovation, opportunity to Central Ohio
In 1962, Ken Coleman arrived at the campus of The Ohio State University with a big dream: to graduate and find a job as a math teacher. It might not seem all that audacious today, but this was the early 1960s, and Coleman was a young African-American man living in the town of Centralia in […]
BTN LiveBIG: Michigan team attempts to breathe new life into braille
BTN LiveBIG: Michigan team attempts to breathe new life into braille
It?s a major literacy crisis in the United States that?s gone largely unnoticed for several years now: In 2011, the American Printing House for the Blind reported that out of the nearly 60,000 legally blind people aged 21 years and younger, a third were non-readers. Of the remaining two-thirds, 27 percent could still see well […]
