Top science video features UW research

The work of researchers at the University of Wyoming was featured in a year-end review of content produced by a prestigious international journal. In 2017, the video team for the journal Science created nearly 180 videos on various topics. The most-viewed entry for the entire year accompanied a special package on artificial intelligence and featured Science staff writer Paul Voosen. The basis for the video, "A.I. detectives are cracking open the black box of deep learning," came largely from the work of a team of researchers, two of whom are associated with UW: Department of Computer Science Associate Professor Jeff Clune and graduate student Anh Nguyen, who now is an assistant professor at Auburn University. Science's video explores information from a video, titled "Deep Visualization Toolbox" (www.youtube.com/watch?v AgkfIQ4IGaM) and a paper, "Understanding neural networks through deep visualization," both including contributions from Clune and Nguyen, along with Cornell University's Jason Yosinski and Hod Lipson, and California Institute of Technology's Tom Fuchs.