Intel advancing technology to combat coronavirus

Article by Victoria Harker.

Intel and the Intel Foundation have announced a $50 million global initiative to put technology to work toward understanding and fighting the coronavirus.

The initiative is supporting measures to innovate in areas like employing artificial intelligence (AI) technology to use CT scans to detect coronavirus infections and virtual technology to monitor patients and protect medical workers.

Funding will go to accelerate diagnosis, treatment and vaccine development through technologies like AI, high-performance computing and edge-to-cloud service delivery, company officials said. It also will expand online learning access for students and teachers worldwide.

“Today, we are witnessing what will surely be remembered as a historic deployment of remote work and digital access to services across every domain, including medicine, education, government, entertainment and more,” Intel CEO Bob Swan stated in a letter to customers and partners. “In the coming weeks and months, services will be further digitized as the creativity of a massive work-from-home population gets rolling. […]

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