Ranks of Disparity: New approach fixes flaw in fairness algorithms

As organizations increasingly rely on algorithms to rank candidates for jobs, university spots, and financial services, a new ...

AI shutdown controls may not work as expected, new study suggests

Researchers observed AI models sabotaging shutdown mechanisms and inflating evaluations to protect peer systems, highlighting ...
The American Bazaar

Srikant leads National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Srikant is leading the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as its new director, marking a new chapter for ...
Beyond Pesticides

Pesticide User’s “Take-Home,” Other Nonoccupational Residues Raise Household Exposure Alarm

A review of pesticide exposure from a family member working in agriculture finds that pesticide levels in the home are ...
ischool.berkeley.edu

Graph Cities and their Applications

James Abello Monedero is an experimental computer scientist focused on algorithms and systems for graph mining, relational learning, visualization, and sense making of massive data sets. James ...
TechNode

The rise of emotion AI: how emotion recognition algorithms are moving into wearables and industry applications

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up Shenzhen Bi’an Mind Technology, founded in 2021, ...
IEEE

Nearest Kronecker Product Decomposition Based Subband Adaptive Filter: Algorithms and Applications

Abstract: Recently, the nearest Kronecker product (NKP) decomposition-based normalized least mean square (NLMS NKP) algorithm has demonstrated superior convergence performance compared to the ...
Berkeley Observer

Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office Opens Applications for Citizens Academy Program

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. — The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is inviting residents to step inside the world of local law enforcement through its upcoming citizens academy, a six-week program designed ...
IEEE

Convergent Primal-Dual Plug-and-Play Image Restoration: A General Algorithm and Applications

Abstract: We propose a general deep plug-and-play (PnP) algorithm with a theoretical convergence guarantee. PnP strategies have demonstrated outstanding performance in various image restoration tasks ...
The Daily Californian

Berkeley City Council approves first response drones, pause in Mills Act applications

The Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday to direct the city manager to begin the process of acquiring drones for first response operations in Berkeley. The council also voted for a pause in Mills Act ...