Last year, a self-driven car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The woman’s family is now suing Arizona and the city of Tempe for negligence. But, in an article published on April 5 in the journal Trends in Cognitive … Read more
Anna Truelove entered first year at UNC feeling lost and confused. Now as a junior, she’s helping to guide and support women in technology. Truelove is a member of the planning committee that’s organizing Women in Tech Week 2019, a … Read more
More than 300 women and non-binary students met in Chapel Hill for Pearl Hacks, a 24-hour hackathon facilitated by the UNC Department of Computer Science. The event was held from February 16 to 17 at the Gillings School of Global … Read more
Augmented reality is changing the way people view, connect to, and interact with the world. At the forefront of this revolution is Jingwen Dai, co-founder and CTO at Ximmerse, a leader in the field of low-cost augmented reality technology. Ximmerse, which … Read more
Computer science doctoral student Ramakanth Pasunuru, who works with assistant professor Mohit Bansal in the UNC-NLP group, received the prestigious 2019 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship for his work in natural language generation and machine learning. Pasunuru was one of only … Read more
The increasing concern over misinformation and “fake news” in the marketplace of ideas has stimulated research efforts on automatic fact-checking via machine learning and natural language processing methods. A UNC-Chapel Hill computer science team, led by assistant professor Mohit Bansal, won first … Read more
Carolina sophomore Angelina Patel is teaching the universal language of computer programming to an unexpected audience: children. In high school, Patel participated in a computer science camp at Carolina, piquing her interest in coding. She picked up on it quickly … Read more
In a study published in the journal NPJ Breast Cancer, researchers reported they used a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning, or deep learning, to train a computer to identify certain features of breast cancer tumors from images. The computer … Read more
Doctoral students Namhoon Kim, Stephen Tang, and Nathan Otterness and faculty members James Anderson, F. Donelson Smith, and Donald Porter received the Best Paper Award at the 26th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2018) in Poitiers, France. … Read more
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing over $25 million in 26 projects to advance the cognitive and physical capabilities of workers in the context of human-technology interactions. These new awards will address critical social, technical, educational and economic needs … Read more
