https://matthewjcorcoran.com Matthew Corcoran Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:21:23 +0000 https://matthewjcorcoran.com en https://matthewjcorcoran.com/AI-Stories Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:21:23 +0000 Matthew Corcoran https://matthewjcorcoran.com/AI-Stories AI / Computer Science Stories Below are several stories I’ve written on the topics of artificial intelligence and computer science over the past several years Can LLMs reason? New benchmark puts models to the test.&nbsp;https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/can-llms-reason-new-benchmark-puts-models-to-the-test/ Culturally Yours: A new tool for understanding cultural references in text. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/culturally-yours-a-new-tool-for-understanding-cultural-references-in-text/ A new fast and accurate approach to 3D instance segmentation presented at ICLR. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-new-fast-and-accurate-approach-to-3d-instance-segmentation-presented-at-iclr/ Six predictions for how AI will evolve in 2025. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/six-predictions-for-how-ai-will-evolve-in-2025/ Forecasting crop yields in an era of extreme weather.&nbsp;https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/forecasting-crop-yields-in-an-era-of-extreme-weather/ Cultural inclusivity in AI: A new benchmark dataset on 100 languages. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/cultural-inclusivity-in-ai-a-new-benchmark-dataset-on-100-languages/ MBZUAI students win award for study presented at Asian Conference on Computer Vision. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/mbzuai-students-win-award-for-study-presented-at-asian-conference-on-computer-vision/ Accelerating neural network optimization: The power of second-order methods. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/accelerating-neural-network-optimization-the-power-of-second-order-methods/ Bridging probability and determinism: A new causal discovery method presented at NeurIPS. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/bridging-probability-and-determinism-a-new-causal-discovery-method-presented-at-neurips/ Web2Code: A new dataset to enhance multimodal LLM performance presented at NeurIPS. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/web2code-a-new-dataset-to-enhance-multimodal-llm-performance-presented-at-neurips/ Solving complex problems with LLMs: A new prompting strategy presented at NeurIPS. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/solving-complex-problems-with-llms-a-new-prompting-strategy-presented-at-neurips/ Cultural awareness in AI: New visual question answering benchmark shared in oral presentation at NeurIPS. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/cultural-awareness-in-ai-new-visual-question-answering-benchmark-shared-in-oral-presentation-at-neurips/ New resources for fact-checking LLMs presented at EMNLP.&nbsp;https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/new-resources-for-fact-checking-llms-presented-at-emnlp/ Accelerating echocardiogram analysis with AI: a new deep learning method presented at MICCAI. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/accelerating-echocardiogram-analysis-with-ai/ A new approach to improve vision-language models. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-new-approach-to-improve-vision-language-models/ A multimodal approach for developing medical diagnoses with AI. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-multimodal-approach-for-developing-medical-diagnoses-with-ai/ Probability and progress: statistics and AI in health care. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/probability-and-progress-statistics-and-ai-in-health-care/ MBZUAI team wins top prize at inaugural Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/mbzuai-team-wins-top-prize-at-inaugural-arabic-natural-language-processing-conference/ Meeting unmet legal needs with NLP. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/meeting-unmet-legal-needs-with-nlp/ A prescription for privacy. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-prescription-for-privacy/ Frontiers of federation at the AI Quorum. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/frontiers-of-federation-at-the-ai-quorum/ Fined tuned across languages: improving LLM instruction following beyond English. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/fined-tuned-across-languages-improving-llm-instruction-following-beyond-english/ Transformers of the handwritten word. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/transformers-of-the-handwritten-word/ Emulating the energy efficiency of the brain. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/emulating-the-energy-efficiency-of-the-brain/ Improving diagnoses of a dangerous condition. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/improving-diagnoses-of-a-dangerous-condition/ Old images to anticipate the future. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/old-images-to-anticipate-the-future/ Smart homes to care for the world’s aging population.&nbsp;https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/smart-homes-to-care-for-the-worlds-aging-population/ MBZUAI team wins government communication competition.&nbsp;https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/mbzuai-team-wins-government-communication-competition/ MBZUAI students sweep top spots in Alibaba Hackathon.&nbsp;https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/mbzuai-students-sweep-top-spots-in-alibaba-hackathon/ AI to reduce malaria in a warming world. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/ai-to-reduce-malaria-in-a-warming-world/ Dozens of studies by MBZUAI scientists presented at top natural language processing conference. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/dozens-of-studies-by-mbzuai-scientists-presented-at-top-natural-language-processing-conference/ Polyglot programs: NLP for Arabic and the globe’s diverse dialects. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/polyglot-programs-nlp-for-arabic-and-the-globes-diverse-dialects/ Making sense of space and time in video. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/making-sense-of-space-and-time-in-video/ Climate conscious computing. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/climate-conscious-computing/ Causality’s role in drug development and precision medicine. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/causalitys-role-in-drug-development-and-precision-medicine/ Advancing computer vision with common sense. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/advancing-computer-vision-with-common-sense/ Processing language like a human. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/processing-language-like-a-human/ Improving patient care with computer vision. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/improving-patient-care-with-computer-vision/ Thamar Solorio reflects on EMNLP 2024 and NLP’s evolving landscape. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/thamar-solorio-reflects-on-emnlp-2024-and-nlps-evolving-landscape/ Culture and bias in LLMs: Defining the challenge and mitigating risks. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/culture-and-bias-in-llms-defining-the-challenge-and-mitigating-risks/ LLMs and the language of empathy: New research presented at EMNLP. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/llms-and-the-language-of-empathy-new-research-presented-at-emnlp/ Microsoft scientist brings tech acumen and a focus on more inclusive LLMs to https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/microsoft-scientist-brings-tech-acumen-and-a-focus-on-more-inclusive-llms-to-mbzuai/ Data diagnostics: AI and statistics in computational biology and smart health. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/data-diagnostics-ai-and-statistics-in-computational-biology-and-smart-health/ Tackling human-written disinformation and machine hallucinations. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/tackling-human-written-disinformation-and-machine-hallucinations/ A new way of seeing: vision transformers for radar data.https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-new-way-of-seeing-vision-transformers-for-radar-data/ Understanding cause and effect in biology. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/understanding-cause-and-effect-in-biology/ Reaping the full benefits of AI-driven applications. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/reaping-the-full-benefits-of-ai-driven-applications/ OpenAI engineer talks tech, entrepreneurship, and the future of artificial intelligence. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/openai-engineer-talks-tech-entrepreneurship-and-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence/ Teaching machines what they don’t know: a new approach to open-world object detection. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/teaching-machines-what-they-dont-know-a-new-approach-to-open-world-object-detection/ The future of human-computer interaction in the era of AI.&nbsp;https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/the-future-of-human-computer-interaction-in-the-era-of-ai/ Machines and morality: judging right and wrong with large-language models. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/machines-and-morality-judging-right-and-wrong-with-llms/ Efficient and inclusive NLP: An instruction-based approach to improve language models. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/efficient-and-inclusive-nlp-an-instruction-based-approach-to-improve-language-models/ Decoding the news: a new application to identify persuasion techniques in the media. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/decoding-the-news/ Iryna Gurevych receives recognition for contributions to natural language processing. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/iryna-gurevych-receives-recognition-for-contributions-to-natural-language-processing/ Separating fact from fiction with uncertainty quantification. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/separating-fact-from-fiction-with-uncertainty-quantification/ Vision and insight: Charting the course of embodied AI with Ian Reid. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/vision-and-insight-charting-the-course-of-embodied-ai-with-ian-reid/ Making sense of silence in gene regulatory networks. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/making-sense-of-silence-in-gene-regulatory-networks/ Making the invisible visible in causality: a new algorithm to identify causal graphs involving both observed and latent variables. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/making-the-invisible-visible-in-causality/ A new strategy for complex optimization problems in machine learning presented at ICLR. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-new-strategy-for-complex-optimization-problems-in-machine-learning-presented-at-iclr/ Words at work: New directions in natural language processing with Ted Briscoe. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/words-at-work-new-directions-in-natural-language-processing-with-ted-briscoe/ Towards the generation of more realistic avatars in virtual worlds. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/towards-the-generation-of-more-realistic-avatars-in-virtual-worlds/ A next step for embodied agents: Ivan Laptev on world models. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-next-step-for-embodied-agents-ivan-laptev-on-world-models/ Facts and fabrications: New insights to improve fake news detection. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/facts-and-fabrications-new-insights-to-improve-fake-news-detection/ LLMs tackle math word problems. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/llms-tackle-math-word-problems/ How computer vision model architecture and training affect performance. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/how-computer-vision-model-architecture-and-training-affect-performance/ More than meets the eye: Identifying hidden causal variables with causal representation learning. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/more-than-meets-the-eye-identifying-hidden-causal-variables-with-causal-representation-learning/ New approaches for machine learning optimization presented at ICML. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/new-approaches-for-machine-learning-optimization-presented-at-icml/ The complexities of identifying causality in the real world: A new study presented at ICML. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/the-complexities-of-identifying-causality-in-the-real-world-a-new-study-presented-at-icml/ Walking the line: Safety and performance in large language models. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/walking-the-line-safety-and-performance-in-large-language-models/ Orchestrated efficiency: A new technique to increase model efficiency during training. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/orchestrated-efficiency-a-new-technique-to-increase-model-efficiency-during-training/ Testing the limits of vision language models: A new benchmark dataset presented at ACL. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/testing-the-limits-of-vision-language-models-a-new-benchmark-dataset-presented-at-acl/ A new standard for evaluating Arabic language models presented at ACL. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-new-standard-for-evaluating-arabic-language-models-presented-at-acl/ A new approach to identify LLM hallucinations: Uncertainty quantification presented at ACL. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-new-approach-to-identify-llm-hallucinations-uncertainty-quantification-presented-at-acl/ Combatting the spread of scientific falsehoods with NLP.https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/combatting-the-spread-of-scientific-falsehoods-with-nlp/ Mechanics and mimicry: Yoshihiko Nakamura’s journey in robotics. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/mechanics-and-mimicry-yoshihiko-nakamuras-journey-in-robotics/ Beyond borders: cultivating the next generation of AI innovators in a global tech hub. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/beyond-borders-cultivating-the-next-generation-of-ai-innovators-in-a-global-tech-hub/ AI for prognoses in cancer care: Integrating physician expertise with deep learning. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/ai-for-prognoses-in-cancer-care/ A mystery fit for a DetectAIve: Classifying machine involvement in writing. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/a-mystery-fit-for-a-detectaive-classifying-machine-involvement-in-writing/ Study on the paradox of ‘low-resource’ languages wins Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/study-on-the-paradox-of-low-resource-languages-wins-outstanding-paper-award-at-emnlp/ Cultivating the next generation of AI innovators in a global tech hub. MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/29/1106130/cultivating-the-next-generation-of-ai-innovators-in-a-global-tech-hub/ Machine-learning-driven predictions for antimicrobial resistance could play a role in addressing looming global health crisis. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/machine-learning-driven-predictions-for-antimicrobial-resistance-could-play-a-role-in-addressing-looming-global-health-crisis/ Adapting foundation models for medical image segmentation: a new approach presented at MICCAI. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/improving-medical-image-segmentation-with-foundation-models/ Why the future of personalized medicine will require new machine learning tools and methods for analyzing single cell omics data. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/the-future-of-personalized-medicine/ New machine-learning approach to inform cancer prognoses presented at MICCAI. https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/new-machine-learning-approach-to-inform-cancer-prognoses/ https://matthewjcorcoran.com/Writing-Portfolio Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:18:09 +0000 Matthew Corcoran https://matthewjcorcoran.com/Writing-Portfolio Writing Portfolio Below are a few samples of the writing that I have done for a variety of clients. --&nbsp;Processing Language Like a Human--&nbsp;New Study Offers Important Insights Into Age-Related Hearing Loss -- A New Development in Single Cell Genomics -- Mother Nature's Untapped Healing Potential -- Growing Up Global -- All Things Must Adapt -- Unsolved Mystery -- What Really Happens When the Stars Align -- Urban Engineering's Seismic Problem -- Our System is Taking a Ride into Space -- Advancing Precision Medicine with Patient-on-a-Chip -- Low Income Earners Less Trusting, Study Finds -- Surviving the Heat -- Historical Move for Sciences in the UAE -- What Makes Us Human? -- Scientists Unravel Evolutionary History of Date Palm -- Resident Expert: US Politics &amp; the Personality Factor -- NYUAD Center Wins Grant from India to Study Monsoon -- Resident Expert: What Drives National Identity? -- The Varied History of the Arabic Novel -- Antibiotics and Obesity -- Resident Expert: Crisis in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine -- Resident Expert: Fall of the Berlin Wall -- Scientists Analyze Heavy Rains in the Gulf -- Controlling Serotonin With Light -- Developing Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment -- The Library of Arabic Literature: "More and Better" -- Marc Michael Analyzes Birth Imbalances in the Caucasus https://matthewjcorcoran.com/Home Sat, 06 Apr 2019 18:29:28 +0000 Matthew Corcoran https://matthewjcorcoran.com/Home Writer | Producer Recent WorkAbout Me Contact Blog https://matthewjcorcoran.com/Recent-Work Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:40:25 +0000 Matthew Corcoran https://matthewjcorcoran.com/Recent-Work Video Emulate, Inc. Human Emulation System A product video for Emulate, Inc., a biotech company in Boston NYU Abu Dhabi Mind and Brain Research across fields at NYU Abu Dhabi Imagine Science Films Space All about space research in the UAE Writing NYU Abu Dhabi Unsolved Mystery The world’s brightest scientists have spent decades searching for something they can’t see. <img width="812" height="541" width_o="812" height_o="541" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a78e2f45013ce9b888d00c3620701033afd4de476fe267ae7266a1f70a10975/812.jpg" data-mid="39017056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/812/i/1a78e2f45013ce9b888d00c3620701033afd4de476fe267ae7266a1f70a10975/812.jpg" /> NYU Abu DhabiAll Things Must Adapt As environments change, so do the plants, animals, and people living in them. <img width="812" height="541" width_o="812" height_o="541" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/938293587297e6bd0151c7fee89a291fed19725016a5edf3e5774ac3a189a5b3/812-1.jpg" data-mid="39017115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/812/i/938293587297e6bd0151c7fee89a291fed19725016a5edf3e5774ac3a189a5b3/812-1.jpg" /> EmulateCells in Space Sending the Human Emulation System to the International Space Station may help scientists get a better understanding of how low Earth orbit affects the body. <img width="3032" height="2007" width_o="3032" height_o="2007" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dbe9886b31ec27af63578768d10a7d6399f1812cf7f190f010dbe816dbc4c9b/Piers_Sellers_spacewalk.jpg" data-mid="39147740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9dbe9886b31ec27af63578768d10a7d6399f1812cf7f190f010dbe816dbc4c9b/Piers_Sellers_spacewalk.jpg" /> NYU Abu Dhabi Mother Nature’s Untapped Healing Potential Natural product research is seeing a renaissance. <img width="800" height="450" width_o="800" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25964b06a51f0181c69e9b95d9ff44f5454b110adce1fd7835d52e462624c6ae/ezgif.com-video-to-gif.gif" data-mid="39147449" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/25964b06a51f0181c69e9b95d9ff44f5454b110adce1fd7835d52e462624c6ae/ezgif.com-video-to-gif.gif" /> NYU Abu Dhabi When Stars Align Microlensing allows astronomers to take precise measurements of stars and other celestial objects. <img width="1014" height="670" width_o="1014" height_o="670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0994038c726fa3d85528e726b7d1163d151cef39dbae887a4cd9d6e235e52b8f/A_Horseshoe_Einstein_Ring_from_Hubble.JPG" data-mid="39148547" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0994038c726fa3d85528e726b7d1163d151cef39dbae887a4cd9d6e235e52b8f/A_Horseshoe_Einstein_Ring_from_Hubble.JPG" /> Emulate, Inc.How We Got Our Start Designing the Human Emulation System. <img width="820" height="560" width_o="820" height_o="560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7cb8c83de94909856ea8ff631ccf2ba3a0c17e357c0fdcb5e3be9b52805cbe7/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-8.43.23-AM.png" data-mid="39149158" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/820/i/b7cb8c83de94909856ea8ff631ccf2ba3a0c17e357c0fdcb5e3be9b52805cbe7/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-8.43.23-AM.png" /> https://matthewjcorcoran.com/About-Me Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:40:23 +0000 Matthew Corcoran https://matthewjcorcoran.com/About-Me Research in Video &amp; PrintWriter | Producer I am a writer and producer living outside of Boston. I've worked mostly in Massachusetts, but have also spent time in Washington, DC and Abu Dhabi. I run a communications agency called Anemone Media where we develop strategic communications campaigns for corporate and institutional clients. In the past, I wrote and produced short films for NYU Abu Dhabi and a startup called Emulate. I studied English and studio art, and wrote a master’s thesis about a Cold War cultural diplomacy program that was funded by the Ford Foundation called Intercultural Publications. <img width="1024" height="1024" width_o="1024" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38a0d9e287652393dcdd1c5ce2fe15735b2777e10ea2c99449cf53cc98fb9bdf/20190110-portrait-1.jpg" data-mid="42951816" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38a0d9e287652393dcdd1c5ce2fe15735b2777e10ea2c99449cf53cc98fb9bdf/20190110-portrait-1.jpg" /> https://matthewjcorcoran.com/Contact Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:23:59 +0000 Matthew Corcoran https://matthewjcorcoran.com/Contact Research in Video &amp; PrintContact matthew [at] anemonemedia.com LinkedIn Flickr Vimeo Tumblr