Page Where Are They Now? Episode 7 Episode 7: Braintree May 27, 2021 Growing up in a small, religious town in Utah, Bryan Johnson felt he existed in a video game where the rules were all mapped...
Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
News Neuroscientists Create New Algorithm for Better Decoding Brain Signals, with Applications Across Industries Matthew Kaufman, assistant professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and the Neuroscience Institute, has developed a new algorithm with myriad potential applications in robotics,...
News A New Approach to Migraine Therapy University of Chicago researchers are opening a new front in treating migraine that could hold out hope for millions with the painful, debilitating condition—by mimicking the protective effects of physical...
News AI Helps to Earlier Detect Brain Injury in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest University of Chicago researchers have developed a patent-pending technique using deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), to better assess hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in survivors of cardiac arrest. Over...
News Base Wants to Compete with the Big Boys in the CRM Artificial Intelligence Game Base isn’t the biggest player in a crowded CRM market by any means, but it’s not shying away from a fight with industry giants like Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. This week it...
Technology Machine Learning for Early Detection of Hypoxic‑Ischemic Brain Injury After Cardiac Arrest Despite the many advances in the field of resuscitation post cardiac arrest, hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HIBI) leaves many survivors with severe neurological disability. Patients who remain comatose at 24–72 h…
Technology Novel Exosome-Based Drug Delivery For Targeting Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline A novel drug delivery system using exosomes derived from hippocampus neuron cells engineered to express the Fe65 protein targeting amyloid-β precursor protein to reduce amyloid plaques Alzheimer's disease. This system…
Technology Human Brain-Inspired Algorithm for Neural Network “Memory” Catastrophic forgetting or interference is the inability of an artificial neural network (ANN) to learn multiple sequential tasks without a degradation in the accuracy of a previously learned task. When…
Technology Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence For Rapid Multi-Task Learning Multi-task learning is a subfield of machine learning in which multiple tasks are simultaneously learned by a shared model. Biologically-inspired recurrent neural networks (RNNs), trained using backpropagation, can learn an…
Technology DeMaND (Decoding using Manifold Neural Dynamics) This method enables high fidelity decoding of neural activity in an interpretable manner with a small training data set. The Unmet Need: Measuring neural activity in the brain with a…
News Aiming Artificial Intelligence and Computer Power at Disease Approximately 70% of screening mammograms in the U.S. are subjected to a second read by a computer-aided detection system (CADe), a technology for assisting in the detection of cancerous lesions...
