United States, May 14 -- Could machine learning be used to predict breast cancer or Alzheimer's disease? How is Facebook reducing social isolation in elderly populations? These were some of the questions explored in this year's SAS Curiosity Cup, a data science competition sponsored by data and AI leader SAS. Just a month after its release, teams had the opportunity to use SAS Viya Workbench for Learners, a free, on-demand compute environment that empowers students and educators to build programming skills, develop AI and machine learning models and complete projects quickly in multiple programming languages. With their choice of SAS software, 112 teams composed of 360 students and 25 industry consultants from 29 countries entered the conte...