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Dans l’actualité | Microsoft On the Issues
Employing data science, new research uncovers clues behind unexplainable infant death
Imagine losing your child in their first year of life and having no idea what caused it. This is the heartbreaking reality for thousands of families each year who lose a child to Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID). Despite decades-long…
Dans l’actualité | 425 Business
Microsoft, Seattle Children’s Team Up for AI-Powered SIDS Research
Microsoft believes artificial intelligence, or AI, can be a force for good in the world. To prove the point, last September the company started its AI for Humanitarian Action initiative — a $40 million, five-year program to use AI to…
Dans l’actualité | Parent Map
What This Local Man Is Doing About SIDS
Heather and John Kahan could have been forever crushed when their son Aaron Matthew, seeming to have been born healthy, died soon after birth. Kahan has turned his family’s profound heartbreak into an opportunity to advance medicine, science and technology…
Dans l’actualité | The Seattle Times
Bereaved father, Microsoft data scientists crunch numbers to combat infant deaths
Spurred by a colleague’s family tragedy, a Microsoft team deployed analysis and data visualization tools and found promising leads in combating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Seattle Children’s Hospital is partnering with Microsoft to further the research.
Dans l’actualité | Seattle Children's - On the Pulse
How Microsoft Data Scientists Are Helping Seattle Children’s Solve SIDS
John Kahan manages a team of renowned Microsoft data scientists who are changing how society can use data effectively, from deciding when to plant crops to creating predictive business models.
Dans l’actualité | KOMO News
Microsoft data scientists turn skills to SIDS research
REDMOND, Wash. (KOMO) -- Local scientists have made intriguing discoveries related to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. But these aren't health scientists. This new information comes from data scientists at Microsoft.
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Stories
For the love of Aaron, and all children who may be susceptible to SIDS
It was the photo that caught his eye. Juan Lavista Ferres had just become a first-time father, and he was jubilant. He brought a picture of his newborn child to work, and he saw a similar photo of an infant…
Dans l’actualité | Castleton
Castleton Polling Institute Earns National Contract
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recently awarded the Castleton University Polling Institute a $400,000 contract to develop and pilot test an interactive health-related survey and journal system. Director of the Polling Institute Dr. Rich Clark and Associate…
Dans l’actualité | Revolutions
Who is the caretaker? Evidence-based probability estimation with the bnlearn package
In what was one of the most viral episodes of 2017, political science Professor Robert E Kelly was live on BBC World News talking about the South Korean president being forced out of office when both his kids decided to…