How AI is improving cancer diagnostics

(How) Is AI Impacting Manufacturing?

Manufacturing research is broadly concerned with tasks performed throughout the product manufacturing life cycle: Decision making at each stage requires creativity, the ability to deal with complexity and coordination with other activities in the cycle. As such, manufacturing represents a fertile domain in which to apply Artificial Intelligence. The potential of AI for solving manufacturing pro...

Where is Education Heading and How About AI?

In this paper we present arguments supported by research examples for a fundamental shift of emphasis in education and its relation to technology, in particular AItechnology. No longer the ITS-paradigm dominates the field of AI and Education. New educational and pedagogic paradigms are being proposed and investigated, stressing the importance of learning how to learn instead of merely learning ...

Improving Search-Based AI Systems

Tuberculosis diagnostics in Fiji: how reliable is culture?

SETTINGS Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear microscopy and Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture are the first-line diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB). The contamination of TB cultures significantly reduces the reliability of TB diagnosis. OBJECTIVE To investigate factors associated with TB culture contamination in Fiji, and the relative diagnostic performance of culture compared to microscopy. ...

How Nuclear Research Is Improving Human Health