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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a national public health problem. In the United States, diabetes, hypertension, and glomerular disease are the leading causes of end stage kidney disease (ESKD). However, Blacks/African Americans are four times more likely than Whites/Caucasians to develop CKD. The progression of CKD and ESKD are examples of health disparities among the races. Addressing the social determinants of health is essential in improving the overall health of Blacks/African Americans and reducing longstanding inequities in health. Key Words: Blacks, African Americans, health disparities, health equity, social determinants of health, chronic kidney disease, end stage kidney disease., Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an under-recognized public health problem. Approximately 37 million adults in the United States have CKD (15% of the adult population; more than 1 in 7 [...]

Over the last 30 years, research in AI has fragmented into more and more specialized fields, working on more and more specialized problems, using more and more specialized algorithms. This […], * Although one of the fundamental goals of AI is to understand and develop intelligent systems that have all the capabilities of humans, there is little active research directly pursuing this goal. We propose that AI for interactive computer games is an emerging application area in which this goal of human-level AI can successfully be pursued. Interactive computer games have increasingly complex and realistic worlds and increasingly complex and intelligent computer-controlled characters. In this article, we further motivate our proposal of using interactive computer games for AI research, review previous research on AI and games, and present the different game genres and the roles that human-level AI could play within these genres. We then describe the research issues and AI techniques that are relevant to each of these roles. Our conclusion is that interactive computer games provide a rich environment for incremental research on human-level AI.