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The White House Frontiers Conference
President Barack Obama on Thursday will host the White House Frontiers Conference, a national event co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to examine the future of innovation at home and abroad. The conference will focus on building U.S. capacity in science, technology, and innovation through several different tracks, including personal, local, national, global, and interplanetary.
The Local track will focus on smart inclusive communities, and Argonne National Laboratory researcher Charlie Catlett will give a talk titled "Instrumenting Cities: The Array of Things and Open Data." In addition, University of Chicago researcher Rayid Ghani will speak about "Doing and Teaching Data Science for Social Good: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned." The National track will focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and robotics. Some of the presenters on this track are Facebook's Yann LeCun, University of Illinois-Chicago researcher Tanya Berger-Wolf, CMU researcher Stephen F. Smith, and Johns Hopkins University researcher Suchi Saria.
The Personal track will focus on health innovation. Columbia University researcher Rafael Yuste will discuss the BRAIN Initiative, which brings together brain researchers and computer scientists for a scientific dialogue aimed at determining new opportunities for joint research.
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