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Covidcast map

Google.org Donates $1 Million, Personnel to CMU's COVID-19 Forecasting Project  (School of Computer Science)

The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge

Facebook Launches Competition To Improve Detection of COVID-19 (School of Computer Science)

Drone Damage Assessment

Amateur Drone Videos Could Aid in Natural Disaster Damage Assessmment (School of Computer Science)

Professor Howie Choset

Choset Joins International Group Focused on AI for Social Good (School of Computer Science)

Professor Rayid Ghani

Two CMU AI Projects Addressing COVID-19 Win Funding (School of Computer Science) 

Professor Hirokazu Shirado

Study Questions Benefits of Social Networks to Disaster Response (School of Computer Science)

Nearly half of Twitter accounts promoting "Reopening America" are bots

Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing "Reopening America" May Be Bots (School of Computer Science)

Tracking Wildfires

Tracking Wildfires (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Robotic ventilator prototype model

Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Researchers Launch Ventilator Project (CMU)

Covidcast map

Carnegie Mellon Unveils Five Interactive COVID-19 Maps (CMU)

Predicting Epidemics

To Predict an Epidemic, Evolution Can’t be Ignored (CMU)

Facebook Covid Map

Self-Reported COVID-19 Symptoms Show Promise for Disease Forecasts (School of Computer Science)

CMU joins Facebook and Google to track Covid-19 cases

Facebook and Carnegie Mellon Team To Gather COVID-19 Symptom Data (School of Computer Science)

Alex John London, Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy

The Ethics of Developing COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccination (Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Howie Choset teaching a class

COVID-19 Should Be Wake-Up Call for Robotics Research (Robotics Institute)

EarthTime pandelic visualization

EarthTime Focuses on the COVID-19 Threat (Robotics Institute)

Xview building recognition

SEI Researchers Help Design xView2 Machine Learning Competition (Software Engineering Institute)

Kathleen Carley 

Online Misinformation About COVID-19 Can Take Many Forms (School of Computer Science)

NREC researchers demonstrate AI systems for disaster relief

Disaster relief: How can AI improve humanitarian assistance? (School of Computer Science)

Snakebot in Mexico City

Snakebot Named Ground Rescue Robot of the Year (School of Computer Science)

Bushfires: Astronaut Paul Scully-Power in ‘space age’ plan to save wildlife (The Australian)
Searching for survivors of the Mexico earthquake—with snake robots (Science Magazine)
A Challenge to Automatically Assess Damaged Buildings After a Disaster (NASA)
Snakebot named ground rescue robot of the year (ZDNet)
Carnegie Mellon Snake Robot Used in Search for Mexico Quake Survivors (School of Computer Science)

NVIDIA, Carnegie Mellon Team Up to Aid First Responders (NVIDIA)

 

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AI in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response

Ritwik Gupta
Software Engineering Institute

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Featured Event

Webinar: Lessons from the Australian Bushfires

Thursday, March 5, 2020
8:00am - 9:00am
Speaker: Tim O’Loughlin, Professor of the Practice Public Policy, CMU Australia

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