In challenges, little "video lessons" are laid down on contextually appropriate parts of the neuron. These videos help to teach about neurons and help in reconstruction. This helps players identify and follow those often elusive neurites and teaches about them simultaneously. Player contribution does indeed lead to acknowledgement in publications! In fact, most recently, the Allen Institute for Brain Science acknowledged Mozak players in their Nature publication.

Welcome to the Newspaper Navigator dataset! This dataset consists of extracted visual content for 16,358,041 historic newspaper pages in Chronicling America. The visual content was identified using an object detection model trained on annotations of World War 1-era Chronicling America pages, including annotations made by volunteers as part of the Beyond Words crowdsourcing project. The dataset also includes text corresponding to the visual content, identified by extracting the Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, within each predicted bounding box. For example, if the visual content recognition model predicted a bounding box around a headline, the corresponding textual content provides a machine-readable version of the headline; likewise, for a photograph, illustration, or map, this textual representation often contains the title and caption.

The College of Engineering Awards acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of the college's teaching and research assistants, staff, and faculty members. The College of Engineering Awards ceremony scheduled for April 20 has been canceled. Since joining UW in 2014, Cole DeForest has established himself as an innovative researcher, an effective teacher and a collaborative colleague, holding appointments in Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and the Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine. His research focuses on the development of (de)polymerization reactions that can be triggered using light in the presence of cells, and "represents a major advancement in cell culture niches that allow unprecedented control of the cellular microenvironment, and is enabling him to conduct newfound experiments that were previously impossible." Cole has received numerous honors, including an NSF Career Award, a Young Investigator Award through the American Chemical Society, and a UW Presidential Distinguished Teaching Award.

Artificial-intelligence researcher Oren Etzioni has suggestions for keeping enough AI faculty members around to train the next generation.Credit: Bret Hartman/TED Oren Etzioni is chief executive of the non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle, Washington, and is on leave from the nearby University of Washington. He offers some recommendations for how to stem the outflow of artificial-intelligence (AI) researchers from academia to industry -- a loss that is damaging academia's ability to teach incoming undergraduates. It is a very sizeable trend for fresh PhD graduates and faculty members. In machine learning, you see some significant departures. Industry compensation packages are highly variable.

Artificial intelligence is one of the Seattle area's fastest-growing tech frontiers, so it only makes sense for the field to get its own category at the GeekWire Awards. Recognizing innovations in AI and its allied technologies, ranging from computer vision to machine learning and natural language processing, has always been a part of the big part of the awards, of course. In fact, some of 2019's contenders for the top AI prize have shown up as finalists in previous years. The split shines a tighter spotlight on two areas of technology where the Pacific Northwest stands out. The five finalists in this new category -- Highspot, Mighty AI, Olis Robotics, Textio and Xnor -- have already made names for themselves.