The key to a chatbot's usefulness is the data it is trained on. A professor at Dartmouth's business school demonstrates that by creating a chatbot TA to answer student questions.  First, Shumsky created a knowledge base in Cody—an AI coding assistant, or online...

On Monday, Feb. 26, N.H. Department of Transportation began posting state highways, limiting heavy trucks on roads to reduce breakup of pavement from frost heaves. Those nasty bumps are created when water freezes and thaws in a warm/cold cycle, the same pattern that...

From Dartmouth Health: A case of misidentification and rush to judgment on social media has led to false accusations of racism and threats of violence against an innocent New Hampshire doctor and his family. Andrew R. Spector, MD, a highly respected Dartmouth Health...

(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Feb. 25. *** *** Snap to Grid Bracket for a Sprinlker Support Assembly ASC...

NH Business Review has a long article looking at the debate in the state over the effect of carbon credits on the timber industry. You can read it here. Carbon harbored in standing trees has become a virtual commodity in the form of credits traded on global markets...

Some Dartmouth researchers are using "natural language processing—artificial intelligence techniques focused on human linguistics—to extract meaningful information from health-related social media interactions" and are trying it out on "posts from a Reddit forum where...

Manchester is too close to Boston. That, in a nutshell, is why Manchester-Boston Regional Airport has struggled for the past decade and a half. The latest blow: Just three days after a new airline said it would be starting service at Manchester-Boston regional...

Unitil has begun work on a 4.9 MW solar array on 36 vacant acres in Kingston that will be the largest in the state and, importantly, the first such array owned by a regulated utility. (There are some rooftop arrays on utility buildings.) It's near an existing...

The nation’s first major offshore wind farm, the under-construction Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, has shown up in an important, if obscure, location. The project is one of more than 900 energy sources of various types (including batteries and demand reduction) who...

From UMASS Amherst news service: A collaborative team of scientists led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently found that there is no physiological evidence supporting a leading theory why many fish species are shrinking as waters grow warmer due to...