Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most urgent public health challenges for aging Americans. Nearly seven million Americans over the age of 65 are currently living with the disease, and that number is projected to nearly double by 2060, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
Computer Science Professors Stanley Bak and Scott Smolka to develop AI-powered solutions for preventing aviation incidents.
New York-based Stony Brook University (SBU) has bought a new high-performance computing (HPC) cluster online, NVwulf. Described as “sister system” to the university’s existing SeaWulf cluster, Stony Brook said NVwulf marks a “significant upgrade” in campus-wide computational capabilities.
A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so.
Assistant Professor Prateek Prasanna from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University has received the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project, “CAREER: Towards Gaze-guided Medical Image Analysis.”
