At Data Science Camp, Career Development And Self-driving Cars Cross Paths

The Data Science in Action camp is a summer program focused on computer programming and artificial intelligence, run by the Translational Data Science Center for a Learning Health System (CELEHS) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. The camp has been geared mostly toward students in the Boston area, drawing over 120 participants to date. This year, the camp expanded to California, hosting 16 students at Harvard and 12 students at San Jose State University. The students start by attending lectures, learning first how to program and then how to develop machine learning algorithms. The lectures feature examples of how machine learning can be applied to health, and culminate in a demonstration of a self-driving car that the students have built.