Smart listeners and smooth talkers
16 Nov 2011Human-like performance in speech technology could be just around the corner, thanks to a new research project that links three UK universities.
Human-like performance in speech technology could be just around the corner, thanks to a new research project that links three UK universities.
A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been formulated by University of Cambridge researchers.
Why is heart disease increasing at a greater rate in South Asia than in any other region globally? Large-scale population studies in Pakistan and Bangladesh aim to discover the basis of a little-studied public health problem of epidemic proportions.
More than 1,000 people around the world have signed up to take part in the biggest ever public study of Android phone usage.
Cambridge researchers have created a website that combines the Facebook profiles of fans of companies and public figures with personality testing to create what they are describing as a “revolutionary” new marketing tool.
A mobile phone app developed by Cambridge researchers that tracks how people behave during an epidemic could be used to limit disease spread.
A mathematical toolkit could dramatically reduce crop losses from pests and pathogens, helping to safeguard future food security.
Scientists at Strangeways Research Laboratory are leading the search for the ‘genetic cards’ that determine an individual’s risk of cancer.
Computational biology is helping scientists to navigate through the data deluge generated from the analysis of cancer genomes.
Sharing the fruits of research in the biomedical sciences is critical for the advancement of knowledge, yet with the advent of large-scale data gathering following the completion of the genome projects this is becoming harder to facilitate and more difficult to monitor, an article in Nature reports this week.
Big data has captured the world’s attention, with talk of data being one of the 21st century’s most valuable commodities and new frontiers in science and the humanities being opened by the collecting, storage, and analysis of vast amounts of information.
Cambridge researchers are helping to solve many of the challenges that big data presents, to ensure that our unprecedented ability to generate data will continue to deliver research advances and societal benefit in a sustainable and appropriate way.
Professor Paul Alexander, Department of Physics, Chair of Cambridge Big Data
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