STONY BROOK, NY, May 26, 2021 – The accuracy of weather forecasting decreases with each additional day of forecasting and is limited in accuracy at two weeks.

As a child growing up in a small town in India with little access to electronics or technology, Anurag Purwar never had a chance to experience anything related to robotics.

“Looking back, I’m sure it would have had a major impact on me,” said Purwar, now an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University.

Over 70 million people worldwide suffer from stuttering. Without intervention, many of these individuals endure this communication disorder for their entire lives. Even so, intervention therapies may not be accessible as they can be considered out-of-pocket expenses and not always covered by insurance.. In a lifetime, the stuttering population is disproportionately at risk for heightened anxiety, insecurity, and isolation. This life-long speech disorder stigmatizes its victims as socially inept. Personally and professionally, these individuals are limited by a fluency issue which is out of their control. 

Books are a profound resource. Novels especially are permanently inscribed with a vast archive of information and narratives. They highlight unseen elements of the human condition that would never be revealed in objective texts. When filtered through computational analysis, these books can inform intelligent systems about the most intimate parts of the human experience, and in turn, improve their capacity for human-centered reasoning.