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Big tech and community colleges team up in education

Big tech and community colleges team up in education

Neethi Anand Gangidi came from India to the United States to study Chemical Engineering. But when the Covid-19 pandemic created difficulties for him doctorate studies, she changed direction by studying artificial intelligence, or AI, at Houston Community College (HCC) in Texas. At HCC, Gangidi and a team of students worked on a difficult problem: finding …

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Scientists use facial recognition to study seals

Scientists use facial recognition to study seals

Scientists believe they have found a new use for facial recognition technology: saving large sea animals called seals. Researchers from Colgate University in the US state of New York developed SealNet. The system is a database of seal faces created by taking pictures of numerous harbor seals in Casco Bay, Maine. The research team found …

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