Feb 28, 2020AI for Good | Advocating for Human RightsThis story is part of a series in reporting on Stanford ICME’s Winter 2020 AI for Good Series. Dr. Megan Price, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), spoke to the audience at Stanford ICME’s AI for Good series on February 24. HRDAG is a nonprofit…Stanford4 min readStanford4 min read
Feb 11, 2020AI for Good | Can AI Make us Healthier?This story is part of a series in reporting on Stanford ICME’s Winter 2020 AI for Good Series. Marzyeh Ghassemi empowered this week’s audience at the AI for Good seminar series with her critical and thoughtful assessment of the current state and future potential of AI in healthcare. Ghassemi is…Stanford4 min readStanford4 min read
Feb 4, 2020AI For Good | Moving to the Heart of the StateFrom Adjudication to Enforcement: AI in Government Agencies This story is part of a series in reporting on Stanford ICME’s Winter 2020 AI for Good Series. When considering the uses of artificial intelligence in the US government, we think of facial recognition technology to identify those at crime scenes, criminal…Stanford5 min readStanford5 min read
Jan 30, 2020AI for Good | The World’s Biggest ChallengeThis story is part of a series in reporting on Stanford ICME’s Winter 2020 AI for Good Series. “It’s music to everybody’s ears, seeing this vast potential being deployed around problems of really great urgency and importance…” Gretchen Daily, Professor of Environmental Science and Director of the Center for Conservation…AI3 min readAI3 min read
Jan 15, 2020AI For Good |Enabling Success in NonprofitsThis story is part of a series in reporting on Stanford ICME’s Winter 2020 AI for Good Series. When Google.org put out a call for applications for their AI for Social Good grant, they received over 2000 applications spanning 119 countries. From these applications they chose 20 grantees whose projects…Artificial Intelligence4 min readArtificial Intelligence4 min read
Jan 7, 2020AI For Good | Ask Yourself Better QuestionsICME’s new seminar series, AI for Good, brings three unique perspectives on the ethical considerations and implications of artificial intelligence. The kickoff session of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME)’s seminar series, AI for Good, walked the balance of being challenging yet accessible, focused yet interdisciplinary, controversial yet…Artificial Intelligence4 min readArtificial Intelligence4 min read
Feb 27, 2018Getting to Know the Women in Data Science: Elena GrewalElena Grewal is the head of the data science team at Airbnb. Her team works in every part of the business to help the company make better decisions and interpret the voice of their users at a large scale. They help to infuse every process with data, machine learning, and…Data Science4 min readData Science4 min read
Feb 1, 2018Getting to Know the Women in Data Science: Daniela WittenDaniela Witten is an Associate Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington. Daniela develops statistical machine learning methods for the analysis of large and complex data sets arising from genomics, neuroscience, and other fields. Daniela has co-authored a textbook, “Introduction to Statistical Learning” which provides an accessible introduction…Data Science4 min readData Science4 min read
Jan 31, 2018Getting to know the Women in Data Science: Janet GeorgeJanet George is a Fellow and Chief Data Officer at Western Digital. She earned her BS and MS degrees in computer science and completed her Masters Thesis work on Artificial Intelligence. With a strong background in data science, Janet sees herself as a practitioner, rather than a theorist, of the tools…Data Science4 min readData Science4 min read
