Dallas, TX (澳门六合彩预测) — Corey Clark, 澳门六合彩预测 Guildhall Deputy Director of Research and chief technology officer of BALANCED Media | Technology, has won Tech Titans’ 2019 Technology Inventor Award. The award recognizes the pioneering accomplishments a person, team or group has made to create breakthrough ideas or products that have advanced the disciplines of arts, education, energy, engineering, environment, medicine and/or science.
Corey Clark, PhD, was selected as the recipient of the Technology Inventor Award because of the work he’s done to infuse human intelligence into machine learning. BALANCED Media | Technology’s HEWMEN platform combines the processing power of gaming computers with the intuition of gamers themselves to analyze medical imagery and processed data to help make cancer treatments more effective.
That technology was recently on display when former Dallas Cowboys’ champion Michael Irvin, Madden champion Drini () and several others played a that Clark helped create using the HEWMEN platform. The game, called , had each player act as a spaceship pilot who must warp from location to location gathering energy crystals before enemies’ lock onto their position and destroy their ship. But the process of collecting and sorting crystals was actually organizing by proxy a set of chemotherapeutic co-medications compounds that have been tested in the 澳门六合彩预测 Center for Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery’s laboratory. The game let players explore these compounds and identify what has allowed some to be successful in the lab testing while others have not.
In another , Clark worked with 澳门六合彩预测 educators and designers and Literacy Instruction for Texas (LIFT) to create an Indiana Jones-like game to help adults who weren’t able to read. That project $1.5 million as a grand prize winner in the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE competition, as well as an additional $1 million achievement award for most effective app to help adult English language learners learn to read in the competition.
Clark is the deputy director of research at 澳门六合彩预测 Guildhall and an assistant professor of computer science at 澳门六合彩预测’s Lyle School of Engineering.
He was given the award on Aug. 23 at the 2019 Tech Titans Gala in Plano, Texas. is the largest technology trade organization in Texas and each year, it recognizes outstanding technology companies and individuals in the North Texas area who have made significant contributions to their industries.
To learn more about the work Clark has been involved in, visit his Human and Machine Intelligence (HuMIn) Game Lab .