{"id":341,"date":"2010-01-28T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:13:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:13:34","slug":"nssl-researcher-wins-honors-in-ams-artificial-intelligence-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2010\/01\/nssl-researcher-wins-honors-in-ams-artificial-intelligence-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"NSSL researcher wins honors in AMS Artificial Intelligence competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-342\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2010\/01\/nssl-researcher-wins-honors-in-ams-artificial-intelligence-competition\/tigger_and_me_osh_2009_headshot\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-342\" title=\"Tigger_and_me_OSH_2009_headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2010\/01\/Tigger_and_me_OSH_2009_headshot-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Elmore\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Elmore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NSSL\/CIMMS researcher Kim Elmore received second place in the American Meteorological Society Artificial Intelligence Competition.\u00a0 This is the third year of the contest.<br \/>\nTo compete, participants are given a data set, then tasked with defining or detecting some weather-related phenomena based the provided data.\u00a0 The entrants are also requested to present a paper on the method used.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s task was to make probability forecasts of moderate or greater turbulence for airline flights using over 100,000 observations and 130 variables. Elmore, along with co-participant University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology Professor Mike Richman, used an ensemble tree regression method to solve the problem, and were awarded second place.<\/p>\n<p>Elmore and Richman co-chaired last year&#8217;s competition, and was invited to compete in the 2009 event.\u00a0 As a result of Elmore\u2019s efforts, he has been invited to become a member of the AMS Committee on Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSSL\/CIMMS researcher Kim Elmore received second place in the American Meteorological Society Artificial Intelligence Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[47,182,209],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forecast","category-people","tag-awards","tag-hot-items","tag-issue-january-2010"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}