Advanced computing and water management at the AAAS Meeting 2018

Research Scientist Suzanne Pierce leads a panel on water management and AI... view more Artificial intelligence - or AI - is helping people make better decisions about how to manage water resources. That's because scientists are taking the best tools of advanced computing to help make science-based decisions about complex and pressing problems in how to manage Earth's resources, including water. Some of those tools include benchmarks that make data accessible on open repositories and help ease testing on machine learning algorithms and other methodologies from intelligent systems. Other tools include new kinds of interfaces and visualizations that help decision makers see meaning in data. Computational tools, such as directed networks to visualize connections and patterns in a dataset, are helping bridge advanced computing with the geosciences. A science panel on AI and water management meets in Austin, Texas on February 17th at the 2018 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.