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Taste is a mysterious sensation that humans experience. We perceive a wide range of tastes, ranging from the sweetness of strawberry shortcake to the bitterness of black coffee. 

It’s well-known that taste buds play a part in the flavor party, but there’s much more to it than what’s on the tip of our tongue. The taste buds send signals to our brain, activating the neurons in our gustatory cortex: the part of our brain associated with perception of taste. Neuroscientists at Stony Brook University are working to increase our understanding of taste and the gustatory cortex.

When we think of aircraft, we typically think of them as planes that are manually controlled by human pilots, but unmanned drones are already in the sky.  The day is coming where we may have autonomous aircraft flying us all over the world… but are you ready to fly on a plane with only a computer as the pilot on board? Would you trust it not to collide with other planes?

Part nine of our AI Researcher Profile series invites Professor Jeffrey Heinz of the Department of Linguistics and Institute of Advanced Computational Science to discuss his research interest and knowledge surrounding linguistics and its role in artificial intelligence.

AI Institute: What piqued your interest in the fusion between linguistics and artificial intelligence? 

Do you love playing dice games? Do you get competitive and find the best strategy to win? If so, this mash-up of dice games and Artificial Intelligence is bound to intrigue you. Click here to play the game. 

Dubbed films are a great option for anyone who wants to watch a movie outside of the language it was filmed in. However, the audio is often misaligned with the mouth movement of the actors. Fortunately, there may be better dubbing systems coming soon. 

Professor Owen Rambow, a member of the Stony Brook Department of Linguistics and Institute of Advanced Computational Science, was recently named a 2022 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Fellow.