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By Stephanie Kanowitz
Apr 29, 2021
Members of Montgomery County, Md.’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) are using an artificial intelligence-based system to find COVID-related items in Twitter posts that may call for action.
As part of research by a team from Brigham Young University (BYU), George Mason University (GMU), the University of Texas (UT) at Austin and Virginia Tech University, CERT volunteers dubbed the Virtual Emergency Response Team (VERT) are tagging tweets based on relevance to help train the AI to recognize data that indicates a situation that emergency response may want to know about.
Under a grant from the National Science Foundation to study human-AI teaming in emergency response, the researchers had been studying how the AI platform, called CitizenHelper, would work during natural disasters. Last fall, though, they shifted to focus on COVID-19 and spent six months studying tweets posted in the National Capital Region that could indicate COVID-ri
Roberto Conte s latest photography series explores Madrid s brutalist architecture to draw attention to a style not usually associated with the Spanish capital.
The photographer, whose work often depicts concrete modernist and brutalist buildings, captured a selection of Madrileño brutalism that includes the Torres Blancas by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíz and a Le Corbusier-informed church by Cecilio Sanchez-Robles Taríns.
Top image: the Cultural Heritage Institute of Spain. Above: the Beatriz building from 1968
Conte first visited Madrid in 2008, when he was struck by the city s vibrant energy as well as its architecture, and returned last year. In the summer of quite a challenging year, 2020, I had a job assignment in the Castile region and I considered it also as a great opportunity to finally dedicate some time to discover more of this beautiful city, he told Dezeen.