An important goal of character animation is to create believable, life-like movements and expressions. For film, artists spend significant amounts of effort to add sufficient complexity to a character rig to enable believable and emotionally evocative performances. However, once a complex character rig has been authored, an artist then needs to spend a significant amount of effort to animate a...

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This is the story of my assorted attempts to do some good with machine learning (and statistics). Through its telling, I’ll highlight several models of organizing social good efforts, describe half a dozen social good problems that would benefit from our community's attention, and present both resources and challenges for those looking to do some good with ML and stats.

https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/92956226569 Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease that is endemic to 98 countries and claims tens of thousands of lives each year. Of the handful of drugs available to treat infection with Leishmania spp., two contain the main-group element antimony: meglumine antimoniate and sodium stibogluconate.

This Forum is an open discussion platform for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and research at the intersection of healthcare and data science. Meetings are held monthly on first Mondays at 12:30-1:30 PM Pacific. Register to receive schedule and access links.

Abstract: Genetic variation is shaped through evolutionary processes acting on our genomes over hundreds of millennia, including past migrations, isolation by distance, population bottlenecks, and natural selection. Such events are reflected in the genealogical trees that relate individuals back in time. We have developed an approach, Relate, to reconstruct such genealogies from genetic...

Misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic continues to create confusion and contention along scientific and political lines. In this conversation, Berkeley faculty will help us understand the nature of misinformation in order to assess, evaluate and engage more effectively with the information resources we consult. They will discuss some of the reasons for the rapid spread of misinformation,...

Hybrid and resonant switched-capacitor power converter design with extreme efficiency and power density.

The cloud has become the most common way to deliver commercial software, but it requires building products in a very different way from traditional software, which has not been heavily studied in research. I will explain some of these challenges based on my experience at Databricks, a startup that provides a data analytics platform as a service on AWS and Azure. Databricks manages...