How AI can help after disaster

On March 11, 2011, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded shook the northeastern coast of Japan, causing a tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people. More than 2,000 remain missing. The Tohoku region outside of Tokyo was hit especially hard, forcing the local community to completely rethink how it responds to future disasters. With the help of a grant from Microsoft’s AI for Earth program, researchers like Bai Yanbing of Tohoku University are attempting to harness the power of artificial intelligence solutions to improve mapping technology so that relief workers might stand a better chance of saving more lives when the next earthquake hits. “Japan is very much earthquake country,” warns Professor Jun Murai of Keio University. “So the resiliency and readiness for the next one is very much a part of our life. The new challenge is to utilize the data and then to understand the way to recover from the disaster.” For more on the AI for Earth program, go here: https://ift.tt/2uhIBKH For more on Microsoft’s new AI for Humanitarian Action program, go here: https://youtu.be/7VqH9mVSWlg Subscribe to Microsoft on YouTube here: https://ift.tt/2tQ4529 Follow us on social: LinkedIn: https://ift.tt/2C07ZV1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Microsoft Facebook: https://ift.tt/1YJO1UL Instagram: https://ift.tt/1MrzlUw For more about Microsoft, our technology, and our mission, visit https://ift.tt/2tVJpWy https://ift.tt/2NJ5Szz Microsoft September 26, 2018 at 06:06PM