Calling On AI And Quantum Computing To Fight The Coronavirus

Can human ingenuity assisted by new and emerging technologies overpower Covid-19? Will faster processing of more--and more relevant--data, analyzed with the right models, yield better insights into mitigating the spread of future pandemics, designing effective treatments, and developing successful vaccines? A number of promising initiatives were announced in recent weeks aiming to enlist data, AI algorithms, supercomputers, and human expertise in the fight with our global predicament. Supercomputers and quantum computers crunching lots of data are at the core of recent initiatives to ... [ ] fight the Coronavirus The Digital Transformation Institute, a new research consortium established by C3.ai, Microsoft, a number of leading universities, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), announced its first call for proposals for "AI techniques to mitigate pandemics." In addition to a total of $5.8 million in cash awards, recipients will be provided by Microsoft and C3.ai with significant cloud computing, supercomputing, data access, and AI software resources and technical support.