Opening the Lid on Criminal Sentencing Software New technology aims to make recidivism prediction more accountable DURHAM, N.C. -- In 2013, a Wisconsin man named Eric Loomis was convicted of fleeing an officer...
Making Sense of Syria's Murky Death Toll DURHAM, N.C. -- Since it began in 2011, the Syrian Civil War has left hundreds of thousands of...
Duke Professors Named Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Duke professors Peter Hoff and...
Can We Teach Computers to Make Like Mendelssohn? Not yet. Robot composer good at emulating short snippets, but still hasn’t mastered melody DURHAM, N.C. -- If the field of machine learning had a holiday theme song, it might be...
Hau-tieng Wu: Vital Signs Bridging mathematics, statistics and medicine with new Duke professor Listen to your heartbeat with a stethoscope and you’ll hear a rhythmic lub-dub, lub-dub...
iPhone App Could Guide MS Research, Treatment Patients can track symptoms, share data right from their phone DURHAM, N.C. -- For some diseases, a simple blood test is all that’s needed to estimate...
