The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Science, Technology, Environment and Global Affairs presents “Application-Driven Machine Learning for Climate Action” with David Rolnick.
Dr. Margaret Eppstein
Professor and Chair of Computer Science, University of Vermont
The fitness-landscape analogy has influenced the way scientists think about evolution for nearly a century. ‘Deception’ was coined in the evolutionary computation literature to describe landscapes in which sign epistasis can mislead a genetic algorithm away from the global optimum. However, current definitions of ruggedness and deception only capture intrinsic properties of landscapes.
Hany Farid ~ Professor of Computer Science ~ Dartmouth College
From the tabloid magazines to main-stream media outlets, political campaigns, courtrooms, and the photo hoaxes that land in our email, doctored photographs are appearing with a growing frequency and sophistication. The resulting lack of trust is impacting law enforcement, national security, the media, e-commerce, and more. The field of photo forensics has emerged to help return some trust in photography. Most forms of photo manipulation will disturb some statistical, geometric, or physical property of an image.