{"id":15465,"date":"2016-09-23T15:02:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rc.fas.harvard.edu\/?page_id=15465"},"modified":"2017-03-31T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T20:27:45","slug":"teaching-computers-to-identify-odors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/teaching-computers-to-identify-odors\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Computers to Identify Odors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15466\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/teaching-computers-to-identify-odors\/attachment\/murthy_092316_sm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/murthy_092316_sm.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"740,278\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"murthy_092316_sm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/murthy_092316_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/murthy_092316_sm.jpg\" alt=\"murthy_092316_sm\" width=\"740\" height=\"278\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/murthy_092316_sm.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/murthy_092316_sm-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\"Using a machine-learning algorithm, [Prof. Venkatesh] Murthy and colleagues were able to \u201ctrain\u201d a computer to recognize the neural patterns associated with various scents, and to identify whether specific odors were present in a mix of smells. The study is described in a Sept. 1 paper in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273(16)30499-8\">journal Neuron<\/a>.\" - Harvard Gazette<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/09\/teaching-computers-to-i-d-odors\/\">The Harvard Gazette<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">\"Using a machine-learning algorithm, [Prof. Venkatesh] Murthy and colleagues were able to \u201ctrain\u201d a computer to recognize the neural patterns associated with various scents, and to identify whether specific odors were present in a mix of smells. The study is described in a Sept. 1 paper in the journal Neuron.\" - Harvard Gazette Read more at The Harvard Gazette<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/teaching-computers-to-identify-odors\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":15468,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15465","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P42YvN-41r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15467,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15465\/revisions\/15467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}