AI Award-Cancer Research
In this April 5, 2017, photo, Regina Barzilay, a professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, poses at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. The world’s biggest AI society awarded Barzilay its top prize on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. MIT said Barzilay is a breast cancer survivor whose 2014 diagnosis led her to shift her machine-learning work to creating systems for drug development and early cancer diagnosis. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via AP)