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AI for good : applications in sustainability, humanitarian action, and health
(2024)

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006.3/AI

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PUBLISHED
Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2024]
©2024
DESCRIPTION

xxix, 399 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781394235872, 1394235879 :, 1394235879, 9781394235872
LANGUAGE
English
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In AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health, a team of veteran Microsoft AI researchers delivers an insightful and fascinating discussion of how one of the world's most recognizable software companies is tacking intractable social problems with the power of artificial intelligence (AI). In the book, you'll learn about how climate change, illness and disease, and challenges to fundamental human rights are all being fought using replicable methods and reusable AI code

CONTENTS
Foreword / Brad Smith -- Introduction / William B. Weeks -- A call to action / Juan M. Lavista Ferres --

Chapter 1

What Is Artificial Intelligence and How Can It Be Used for Good? / William B. Weeks --

Chapter 2

Artificial Intelligence: Its Application and Limitations / Juan M. Lavista Ferres --

Chapter 3

Commonly Used Processes and Terms / William B. Weeks and Juan M. Lavista Ferres --

Chapter 4

Deep Learning with Geospatial Data / Caleb Robinson, Anthony Ortiz, Simone Fobi Nsutezo, Amrita Gupta, Girmaw Adebe Tadesse, Akram Zaytar, and Gilles Quentin Hacheme --

Chapter 5

Nature-Dependent Tourism / Darren Tanner and Mark Spalding --

Chapter 6

Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection / Zhongqi Miao --

Chapter 7

Using Satellites to Monitor Whales from Space / Caleb Robinson, Kim Goetz, and Christin Khan --

Chapter 8

Social Networks of Giraffes / Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Derek Lee, and Monica Bond --

Chapter 9

Data-driven Approaches to Wildlife Conflict Mitigation in the Maasai Mara / Akram Zaytar, Gilles Hacheme, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Rahul Dodhia, and Juan M. Lavista Ferres --

Chapter 10

Mapping Industrial Poultry Operations at Scale / Caleb Robinson and Daniel Ho --

Chapter 11

Identifying Solar Energy Locations in India / Anthony Ortiz and Joseph Kiesecker --

Chapter 12

Mapping Glacial Lakes / Anthony Ortiz, Kris Sankaran, Finu Shrestha, Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa, and Mir Matin --

Chapter 13

Forecasting and Explaining Degradation of Solar Panels with AI / Felipe Oviedo and Tonio Buonassisi --

Chapter 14

Post-Disaster Building Damage Assessment / Shahrzad Gholami --

Chapter 15

Dwelling Type Classification / Md Nasir and Anshu Sharma --

Chapter 16

Damage Assessment Following the 2023 Earthquake in Turkey / Caleb Robinson, Simone Fobi, and Anthony Ortiz --

Chapter 17

Food Security Analysis / Shahrzad Gholami, Erwin W. Knippenberg, and James Campbell --

Chapter 18

BankNote-Net: Open Dataset for Assistive Universal Currency Recognition / Felipe Oviedo and Saqib Shaikh --

Chapter 19

Broadband Connectivity / Mayana Pereira, Amit Misra, and Allen Kim --

Chapter 20

Monitoring the Syrian War with Natural Language Processing / Rahul Dodhia and Michael Scholtens --

Chapter 21

The Proliferation of Misinformation Online / Will Fein, Mayana Pereira, Jane Wang, Kevin Greene, Lucas Meyer, Rahul Dodhia, and Jacob Shapiro --

Chapter 22

Unlocking the Potential of AI with Open Data / Anthony Cintron Roman and Kevin Xu --

Chapter 23

Detecting Middle Ear Disease / Yixi Xu and Al-Rahim Habib --

Chapter 24

Detecting Leprosy in Vulnerable Populations / Yixi Xu and Ann Aerts --

Chapter 25

Automated Segmentation of Prostate Cancer Metastases / Yixi Xu --

Chapter 26

Screening Premature Infants for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings / Anthony Ortiz, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guillermo Monteoliva, and Maria Ana Martinez-Castellanos --

Chapter 27

Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 / Meghana Kshirsagar and Sumit Mukherjee --

Chapter 28

Using Artificial Intelligence to Inform Pancreatic Cyst Management / Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, William B. Weeks, Elliot Fishman, and Anne Marie Lennon --

Chapter 29

NLP-Supported Chatbot for Cigarette Smoking Cessation / Jonathan B. Bricker, Brie Sullivan, Marci Strong, Anusua Trivedi, Thomas Roca, James Jacoby, Margarita Santiago-Torres, and Juan M. Lavista Ferres --

Chapter 30

Mapping Population Movement Using Satellite Imagery / Tammy Glazer, Gilles Hacheme, Amy Michaels, and Christopher J.L. Murray --

Chapter 31

The Promise of AI and Generative Pre-Trained Transformer Models in Medicine / William B. Weeks

Additional Credits

CREDITS

Lavista Ferres, Juan M., editor

Weeks, William B., editor.

Smith, Brad 1959- (Brad Lee), writer of foreword.

Robinson, Caleb, author

Ortiz, Anthony, author

Nsutezo, Simone Fobi, author

Gupta, Amerita, author

Tadesse, Girmaw Adebe, author

Zaytar, Akram, author

Hacheme, Gilles Quentin, author

Tanner, Darren, author

Spalding, Mark, author.

Miao, Zhongqi, author

Goetz, Kim, author

Khan, Christian, author

Lee, Derek, author

Bond, Monica, author

Dodhia, Rahul, author

Ho, Daniel, author

Kiesecker, Joseph, author

Sankaran, Kris, author

Shrestha, Finu, author

Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa, author

Matin, Mir, author

Oviedo, Felipe, author

Buonassisi, Tonio, author

Gholami, Shahrzad, author

Nasir, Md, author

Sharma, Anshu, author

Knippenberg, Erwin W., author

Campbell, James, author

Shaikh, Saqib, author

Pereira, Mayana, author

Misra, Amit, author.

Kim, Allen, author

Scholtens, Michael, author

Fein, Will, author

Wang, Jane, author

Greene, Kevin T., author

Meyer, Lucas, author

Shapiro, Jacob, author

Roman, Anthony Cintron, author

Xu, Kevin, author.

Xu, Yixi, author

Habib, Al-Rahim, author

Aerts, Ann, author

Monteoliva, Guillermo, author

Martinez-Castellanos, Maria Ana, author

Kshirsagar, Meghana, author

Mukherjee, Sumit, author.

Fishman, Elliot, author

Lennon, Anne Marie, author

Bricker, Jonathan B., author

Sullivan, Brie, author

Strong, Marci, author

Trivedi, Anusua, author

Roca, Thomas, author

Jacoby, James, author

Santiago-Torres, Margarita, author

Glazer, Tammy, author

Michaels, Amy, author

Murray, Christopher J. L., author.

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TITLES

Artificial intelligence for good

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