--- title: Five Best Ideas: Computers Are Learning To See in the Rain description: Why computers are learning to see in the rain, what’s behind the epidemic of unnecessary medical treatments and more. canonical: https://time.com/4680140/computers-are-learning-to-see-in-the-rain/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-23T17:00:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:02.584Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Computers Are Learning To See in the Rain og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4680140/computers-are-learning-to-see-in-the-rain/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Computers Are Learning To See in the Rain twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Computers Are Learning To See in the Rain by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 23, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 23, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Computers are learning to see in the rain. Here’s why.**](https://theoutline.com/post/979/scientists-remove-rain-and-snow-from-images-machine-learning) By Emily Brown in the _Outline_ **2\.** [**What’s behind the epidemic of unnecessary medical treatments?**](https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but-doctors-say-yes) By David Epstein in _ProPublica_ **3\.** [**Goodbye wires: This whole room charges all the devices inside it wirelessly.**](https://phys.org/news/2017-02-wireless-power-transmission-safely-devices.html#jCp) By _Phys.org_ **4\.** [**Sometimes sending your kid to the best school could backfire.**](https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/why-sending-your-kid-to-the-best-possible-school-may-backfire) By Roberta Kwok in _Kellogg Insight_ **5\.** [**How states can lead the fight on climate change — without Washington.**](http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2017/02/21/how-fight-climate-change-without-washington/Zz1y4guO5ZSkPsrIzza2HI/story.html) By the editors of the _Boston Globe_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4680140/computers-are-learning-to-see-in-the-rain/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4680140/computers-are-learning-to-see-in-the-rain/"},"headline":"Computers Are Learning To See in the Rain","datePublished":"2017-02-23T17:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:02.584Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4680140/computers-are-learning-to-see-in-the-rain/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","medicine","Innovation","climate change","Education","Wireless","Computers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4680140/computers-are-learning-to-see-in-the-rain/","name":"Computers Are Learning To See in the Rain"}}]}] ```