Discovery Fellows Rebecca Willett and Rob Nowak are creating algorithms to make sense of big data and help machines learn. Full story at wid.wisc.edu.
Month: March 2016
How New Yorker Cartoons Could Teach Computers To Be Funny
“The computer models Nowak and his team are developing are called adaptive crowdsourcing algorithms. They attempt to weed out the weakest captions as quickly as possible to get more people to vote on the potential …
Stephen Wright, five others appointed to WARF professorship
Six members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty, including Stephen Wright, have been appointed to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation named professorships.