Can Twitter help break the news?

This article was written by Iggy Fenech and published in the 2022 Faculty of ICT Exhibition magazine. The article is being reproduced as it appeared originally. PhD in AI student NICHOLAS MAMO has spent years working on an Artificially Intelligent system that can alert journalists to news stories breaking on social media. Here he explains how it works. The consumption of news has come a long way since the early days of the newspaper....

July 26, 2022

If machines could watch football

This article was originally published on the Times of Malta and appeared in the Sunday Times of Malta on 10 March, 2019. The article is being reproduced as it appeared originally. One out of every two people watched part of the FIFA World Cup last year. Yet in spite of the sport’s popularity, there is no robot that could sit next to you on a weekend afternoon, sip on a cold beer, and contemplate your team’s woes and successes....

July 17, 2020