Tony Kontzer
Tony has been covering business technology for more than 20 years, producing content for the likes of Information Week, Investors Business Daily, Baseline Magazine and TechTarget, and has been a contributing blogger for NVIDIA since 2010. A 1988 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, Tony works from his home in Grass Valley, Calif., and spends his non-work hours chasing his two little boys around a 2.5-acre property, answering constant texts from his college-aged son, and desperately trying to get his wife to answer her cell phone. His infrequent Twitter posts can be found at https://twitter.com/tkontzer.
Talk to Me: Deep Learning Identifies Depression in Speech Patterns
“Talk therapy” is often used by psychotherapists to help patients overcome depression or anxiety through conversation. A research team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is using deep learning to uncover… Read Article
How UCSF Researchers Are Using AI on Some of Healthcare’s Toughest Problems
Hospitals produce huge volumes of medical data that, when handled with concern for privacy and security, could be used to re-examine everything from hospital administration to patient care. But this… Read Article
The Oral of This Story? AI Can Help Keep Rare Languages Alive
Linguists estimate at least half of the world’s estimated 7,000 spoken languages will become extinct by the century’s end due to forces ranging from globalization to cultural assimilation. Part of… Read Article
Perplexed by Texts: AI Providing Insights into What Messages Really Say
Es Lee’s first efforts to bring emotional intelligence to texting didn’t go quite as planned. He’d helped discern the romantic intent behind some texts a friend had received and figured… Read Article
Scaling the Universe: How Large GPU Clusters Aid Understanding of Galaxy Formation
For centuries, scientists have marveled at telescopic imagery, theorized about much of what they see and drawn conclusions from their observations. More recently, astronomers and astrophysicists are using the computing… Read Article
Swatting Down Disease: Puerto Rican Startup Takes Bite Out of Mosquito-Borne Sickness
Ask folks which animal kills the most people each year and they’ll probably say crocodiles, sharks or maybe lions. But the correct answer is a lot less obvious — the… Read Article
Startup Brings AI-Powered Image Analysis to Heart, Liver and Lungs
Analysis of medical images is a time sink for radiologists, but crucial for diagnosing all sorts of ailments. When screening for lung cancer, radiologists spend up to three minutes analyzing… Read Article
Whale of an Idea: Tapping AI to Keep Ships from Striking Endangered Sea Mammals
After centuries of steadily decimating the world’s whale populations, humans have taken significant steps to reverse their catastrophic impact. One of the latest: an AI-powered project spearheaded by the Canadian… Read Article
Dynamic Duo: MIT Research Project Shows Potential for AI and Humans to Work Together Creatively
Deep learning is used by scientists to further our understanding of the universe, the DNA in our bodies and everything in between. But sometimes scientists just want to have a… Read Article