Meeting Of The Minds For Machine Intelligence

Surviving breast cancer changed the course of Regina Barzilay’s research. The experience showed her, in stark relief, that oncologists and their patients lack tools for data-driven decision making. That includes what treatments to recommend, but also whether a patient’s sample even warrants a cancer diagnosis, she explained at the Nov. 10 Machine Intelligence Summit, organized by MIT and venture capital firm Pillar. “We do more machine learning when we decide on Amazon which lipstick you would buy,” said Barzilay, the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. “But not if you were deciding whether you should get treated for cancer.” Barzilay now studies how smarter computing can help patients. She wields the powerful predictive approach called machine learning, a technique that allows computers, given enough data…


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