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2020-12-31
The Top Ten Online Exhibitions of 2020
In an end of the year article, Smithsonian lists the top ten virtual museum exhibitions of 2020: 1. The Smithsonian’s National Picture Gallery, “Every Eye Is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States” 2. Peabody Essex Museum, “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” 3. The Whitney Museum, “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945” 4. The Museum of Modern Art, “Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures” 5. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation” 6. Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Making the MET, 1870-2020” 7. The British Museum, “The Museum of the World” 8. The Rijksmuseum, “The Night Watch” 9. Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, “Van Eyck an Optical Revolution” 10. Instituto Cervantes, “Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in Gold Age of Spain” -
2021-04-06
News Article: Pfizer Injects AI Into Vaccine Trials
This sub-article was the lead item in this week's Wall Street Journal PRO "Artificial Intelligence Weekly" email blast: "By Angus Loten Welcome back. Artificial intelligence is set to take a decisive role in shaping the post-pandemic economy, from helping employers reopen workplaces to getting supply chains back on track. Corporate technology leaders and industry analysts offered these and other insights at last week’s virtual edition of the WSJ Pro AI Executive Forum. Some of their views are outlined in the sections below. One broad takeaway: Though still in its infancy, AI is already having a profound impact on our daily lives. Pfizer’s Speedy Vaccine Rollout Pfizer Inc. last year developed AI-powered dashboards designed to monitor the effect of Covid-19 on clinical trials in real time, ultimately helping the pharmaceutical giant roll out its coronavirus vaccination in less than a year, The Wall Street Journal’s Sara Castellanos reports. A shot in the arm. Pfizer fed large amounts of case-rate data into AI-enabled predictive models to quickly generate site selection for clinical trials, said Lidia Fonseca, the company’s chief digital and technology officer. A smart move. Pfizer two years ago began experimenting with the emerging technologies, focusing on digital tools that promised to offer better outcomes for patients, doctors and employees, with results it was able to draw on during the pandemic, Ms. Fonseca said."