The Impact of COVID-19 on AI and Medical Research Collaboration

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel and Chris have a timely conversation with Lucy Lu Wang of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence about COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). She relates how CORD-19 was created and organized, and how researchers around the world are currently using the data to answer important COVID-19 questions that will help the world through this ongoing crisis.

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Featuring:

• Lucy Lu Wang – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Lucy Lu Wang - Google Scholar
• Kaggle: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)
• CORD-19 Explorer
• Semantic Scholar | CORD-19
• Allen Institute for AI

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