Advancing tech innovation and combating the data dessert that exists related to sign language have been areas of focus for the AI for Accessibility program. Towards those goals, in 2019 the team hosted a sign language workshop, soliciting applications from top researchers in the field. Abraham Glasser, a Ph.D. student in Computing and Information Sciences and a native American Sign Language (ASL) signer, supervised by Professor Matt Huenerfauth, was awarded a three-year grant. His work would focus on a very pragmatic need and opportunity: driving inclusion by concentrating...
Singapore National Parks Board, Microsoft and Conservation International collaborate to create AI-powered mobile application that visually identifies shark and ray species
Sharks and rays...
Contact centres for financial institutions have traditionally been a core touch point for customers to access various types of immediate support – from...
FARMINGTON, Wash. – The gently rolling hills here in eastern Washington have long grown rich harvests of wheat, barley and lentils.
Fifth-generation farmer Andrew...
