Machine Learning Tools Help Google Science Fair Finalists Find Lost Objects, Predict Breast Cancer Risk

This week, 16 teams of teens from around the world assembled in Mountain View to demonstrate the results of research projects at the Google Science Fair. You can view summaries of all the projects here. I've been attending these finals for several years now and am always impressed with how creatively the teens use the technologies of today. And this year was no exception: machine learning is hot in the tech world, and the teens are embracing it. A Silicon Valley girl from Cupertino, Calif., Cheerla was curious about the current state of breast cancer prediction, and discovered that prediction methods using digital mammograms are just 64 percent effective, typically simply considering the percentage of dense tissue in a breast.