Social media companies have long struggled with content moderation. Last fall, Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, explained why they keep failing: “What we've been seeing in the last year or two are these feeble attempts to create and enforce standards and generate public confidence in [the company's] ability to filter. But neither the humans who work for these companies nor the artificial intelligence systems they build can anticipate the varieties of human craziness and cruelty.”
When considering how a company as massive as Facebook might use its wealth of facial recognition data, Siva Vaidhyanathan – a University of Virginia professor, Slate contributor, and the author of “Antisocial Media,” a book about Facebook – suggests thinking in terms of the way Facebook already works around the web. “Facebook wants to be able to certify identity in a variety of areas of life just as it has been trying to corner the market on identify verification on the web,” Vaidhyanathan says.
Three out of four people within a mile radius of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s planned compressor station in Union Hill are African American, according to a UVA study.
The recent announcements follow news earlier this year that the University of Virginia would pay a $15 minimum wage to full-time employees in its academic division and medical center starting January 2020. UVA said the change would benefit around 1,400 workers and cost $3.5 million annually, funded with existing resources.
UVA researchers are developing an artificial intelligence-powered system that can analyze the voice and tone of caregivers to identify when they are stressed and prompt them to relax.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Perot was “a stick of dynamite in the pond of U.S. politics back in 1992, and he was an American original, who got a larger portion of the vote [as a third-party candidate] than anyone since Bull Moose’s Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.”
Family relationships are enduring and have a dimension to them rarely found in friendships, UVA psychology professor Robert E. Emery said. “Sharing memories, experiences, time and connections between or within the generations really strengths these family relationships.”
“People buy for two reasons,” says Thomas Steenburgh, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. “They either have a business problem that needs to be solved or they have a personal need, such as a desire to move up in the organization that your idea helps accelerate.”
UVA politics professor Larry Sabato says Warner starts out the race as a heavy favorite — even since his last closer-than-expected win over Republican Ed Gillespie. Furthermore, since it’s a presidential election year, whoever wins Virginia’s presidential vote will likely win the Senate vote. Sabato says odds are Trump will not win Virginia.
CNN’s innovation will give viewers one less thing to harp on, says Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “It’s more difficult to create a conspiracy theory about a transparent process everyone can watch,” he says.
On the list is “The Gifted School: A Novel” by UVA English professor Bruce Holsinger. Set in a fictional high-income Denver suburb, this novel follows a number of elementary-school children and their achievement-obsessed parents. Like 2014’s “Big Little Lies,” “The Gifted School” peels back the layers of seemingly perfect people until you can see their tautly stretched, deeply stressed centers.
Given it’s an election year, UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato does not think much will come out of the special session.
Now Iran says it is enriching past the levels set by the agreement. Technically, it can be done with no modifications to Iran’s enrichment setup, says Houston Wood, a UVA professor of mechanical engineering. “It’s a really simple thing for them to do.”
(Subscription required) “Was he perfect? Nobody’s perfect,” said Robert F. Turner, a professor at the UVA School of Law who has studied Jefferson for decades and defended his work and character. … “[Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker] is a model for what it means to do the difficult work of unlearning and exposing these racist patterns and forging new paths that are telling the complete and full American story,” said Lisa Woolfork, an associate professor at UVA who supported the holiday change and studies the history of race, inequity and slavery.
Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said if the election focuses on Trump, Democrats should be in a good position. But if Democrats turn the election into a choice between their vision and his, Trump’s chances improve.
But shortly after Amash made his announcement Thursday, national handicapper Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia moved Michigan's 3rd District from likely GOP to toss-up. Sabato said Friday he doesn't see Amash winning as an independent because Republicans will want to punish him and the lack of a political party's backing will hurt.
"Theoretically, (voting by phone) is a welcome change. Caucuses need broader participation to be more representative of the party faithful," says Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics and an expert on the presidential primary system.
The UVA Health System is another provider that sought to adopt collaboration tools that would allow doctors to serve patients from a distance, whether the patient is at home or at the scene of an emergency.
“I rarely recommend people start taking probiotic supplements, simply because we just don’t have enough evidence to suggest it helps or hurts,” says Meagan Bridges, a clinical dietitian and nutrition support specialist at the UVA Health System. “A lot of times, though, patients will have already been taking probiotic supplements, and some people find they do help their symptoms. If that’s the case, then I usually tell them to keep going. It’s patient-specific.”
This week, 100 international undergraduate students will in Charlottesville for an exchange program this week. UVA’s Center for Politics says the students are part of the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program for Undergraduate Students, or IYELP.