Source: news.mit.edu When Tracy Slatyer faced a crisis of confidence early in her educational career, Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” and a certain fictional janitor at MIT helped to bolster her resolve. Slatyer was 11 when her family moved from Canberra, Australia, to the island nation of Fiji. It was a three-year stay, Read More
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Source: livemint.com With the digital makeover of the economy, which has allowed for transactions carried out by individuals and companies to be traced and recorded in real-time, traditional methods of collecting economic data, such as in-person surveys and interviews, run the risk of becoming outdated. Digital records of such transactions—whether online or brick and mortar—at a Read More
Source: thetradenews.com Bloomberg has rolled out early alerts using machine learning technology to provide clients with predictive insights for fixed income trading. The data-driven early alerts use Bloomberg’s proprietary library of fixed income data alongside machine learning models for predictive intelligence that could offer users an edge in trading corporate credit markets. By analysing Read More
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com BEIJING/HONG KONG – Meituan Dianping , a Chinese online food delivery-to-ticketing firm, has started building a mapping service, aiming to enter an area currently dominated by Alibaba’s AutoNavi and BaiduMaps. A spokeswoman for Meituan told Reuters the company was working on the project, after it advertised more than a dozen positions on job hunting website Lagou.com on Tuesday Read More
Source: 9to5google.com From writing and collaborating in Docs to using Search for research and Calendar to track due dates, Google products are extensively used by today’s students. With Socratic by Google, the company is trying to play a more active role in helping older students study. Google wants to tackle how “students often get ‘stuck’ while studying” outside the Read More
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com BENGALURU: Indian IT services providers Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosysand Wipro are betting on artificial intelligence(AI) platforms to improve delivery of solutions and drive faster growth from clients. These companies are also looking to offer the AI platforms, embedded as part of solutions until now, separately to clients. Among the three competing platforms — TCS Ignio, Infosys Read More
Source: coindesk.com The Bitfury Group may soon be known as a data miner, as well as a crypto mining firm. In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, the firm’s co-founder and CEO Valery Vavilov said Bitfury has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) division in order to break down the world’s vast amount of data and derive value Read More
Source: openaccessgovernment.org Please type the words you see in the image. At some point, we have all completed a captcha to prove we are human when online. So, when a robot successfully completed the test, we were left asking, are our computers secure? Here Jonathan Wilkins, marketing director at obsolete parts supplier EU Automation, explains how Read More
Source: techcrunch.com As part of new efforts toward accessibility, Google announced Project Euphoniaat I/O in May: An attempt to make speech recognition capable of understanding people with non-standard speaking voices or impediments. The company has just published a post and its paper explaining some of the AI work enabling the new capability. The problem is simple to observe: The Read More
Source: techxplore.com Scientists have developed an automated tool for mapping the movement of particles inside cells that may accelerate research in many fields, a new study in eLife reports. The movements of tiny molecules, proteins and cellular components throughout the body play an important role in health and disease. For example, they contribute to brain Read More
Source: financialexpress.com Indian ride hailing giant Ola has ‘acquihired’ Pikup.ai, an artificial intelligence start-up from Bengaluru, for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, Ola will hire Pickup.ai’s team following the acquisition. Pickup.ai is co-founded by Inder Singh and Ritwik Saikia. The start-up uses autonomous technologies like artificial intelligence, computer vision and sensor fusion Read More
Source: afr.com Australia’s data centres are concentrated in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, but that is starting to change as storage and cloud providers and their customers see the advantages of situating them in regional Australia.For example, Australian-owned cloud, data centre and connectivity provider iseek is set to open a data centre in Townsville shortly. Founder Read More
Source: news.efinancialcareers.com Sending your resume to a firm through a generic HR inbox tends not to be the best way to get noticed, particularly if there isn’t a current opening that’s a perfect fit for your background. It’s therefore in your best interest to know the person who acts as the gatekeeper one step beyond Read More
Source: healthitanalytics.com The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve medical imaging, cancer diagnostics, precision medicine, voice-enabled technologies, and other areas of healthcare with machine learning. The AWS Machine Learning Research sponsorship will enable PHDA scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to accelerate research and Read More
Source: newkerala.com Shan–who founded China’s leading truckload service provider in 2015–shared her insights during the FullSTK and binate.io tracks, which examine how coding and data analysis are influencing modern businesses and society. During her keynote, Shan highlighted how technology had enabled the optimization of revenue and customer service in one of Asia’s fastest-growing industries. Following Read More
Source: anl.gov Abstract: One of the most promising applications of machine learning to materials research is the development of atomic-scale models that can be used to accelerate the calculation of material properties by orders of magnitude relative to density functional theory with little loss of accuracy. To this end, I will demonstrate how machine learning, Read More
Source: newsday.co.tt THE Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has launched an online page to streamline reporting suspicious financial activities for reporting entities and the public as a whole. At the FIU’s conference room at Tower D, International Waterfront Complex, in Port of Spain, on Friday, director Nigel Stoddard said the increase in the need to inform Read More
Source: searchenterpriseai.techtarget.com Emerging about a decade ago from roots in statistical modeling and data analysis, data scientists are employed to help companies adopt data-centric approaches to their organizations. Since data scientists have a comprehensive understanding of data, they work well in moving organizations towards machine learning, deep learning and AI adoption because they generally have Read More
Source: healthimaging.com A neural network model can scour electronic medical record (EMR) data and determine if a patient has imaging-specific pulmonary embolism (PE)—a potential remedy for unnecessary CT imaging, reported authors of a multicenter studypublished in JAMA Network Open. The machine learning platform—Pulmonary Embolism Result Forecast Model or PERFORM—converts raw EMR data, such as demographics, vital signs, Read More
Source: hackernoon.com Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are changing how people use technology to lead their lives. The phenomenon is pervasive not just in consumer tech but also in large B2B enterprises. To reap the benefits from this emerging trend, Product Managers need to learn new ways of thinking and be aware of the challenges Read More
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Artificial Intelligence or AI will not take away employment but the nature of opportunities would change in tandem with the industry 4.0 revolution and that would require potentially-skilled human resources, according to an AI expert. “AI is not going to take away jobs but the nature of the jobs will change as a part Read More
Source: zdnet.com The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) has announced a machine learning research sponsorship from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that would see the alliance aim to advance innovation in areas such as cancer diagnostics, precision medicine, voice-enabled technologies, and medical imaging. The PHDA is a consortium formed by Pittsburgh’s UPMC hospital, the University of Read More
Source: computerweekly.com The final collapse of big data firm MapR into HPE could be read as a particular fate. But might it also be a sign of things to come for those suppliers that sprang into life around the Hadoop family of big data storage technologies around a decade ago? Hadoop was, and is an open source Read More
Source: indiaeducationdiary.in Gandhinagar: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) organised the eighth Roddam Narasimha Distinguished Lecture on August 5, 2019, on the subject ‘Data Science: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’. Prof Jayant R Haritsa, a data Scientist and Professor in the Department of Computational & Data Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Read More
Source: searchnetworking.techtarget.com Network traffic across the internet, within data centers and in end-user networks has increased rapidly over time and shows no signs of stopping. While 100 Gigabit Ethernet, or GbE, technology has only been available for a few years, a variety of applications already show a need for even higher data rates. Industry experts expect Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Google’s latest research dives deep into the brains of fruit flies — quite literally. In collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus and Cambridge University, the tech giant today published the results of a study (“Automated Reconstruction of a Serial-Section EM Drosophila Brain with Flood-Filling Networks and Local Realignment“) Read More
Source: scoop.co.nz Human intelligence will be the key to preparing for ‘age of artificial intelligence’ in Aotearoa What could the growing use of artificial intelligence mean for Aotearoa and how can we ensure that all New Zealanders can prosper in an AI world? These are questions Royal Society Te Apārangi introduces in a new summary Read More
Source: infoq.com At several points throughout his career, Phil Calçado has worked on transitioning monoliths to a microservices architecture, but recently the challenge for him has instead been in migrating to serverless. In a presentation at the recent QCon New York conference, he talked about his experience combining the serverless concept with microservices. Calçado, previously having worked for Meetup and SoundCloud, and currently at SeatGeek, started by defining microservices Read More
Source: rcpmag.com Despite some obstacles, it’s boom times for machine learning. Research firm Zion Market Research projected in a recent report that machine learning spending will hit $20.83 billion in 2024 from $1.58 billion in 2017, a compound annual growth rate of just over 44 percent. The report cites “technological advancements and proliferation in data generation” as two Read More
Source: eurekalert.org As a source of inspiration, aquatic creatures such as fish, cetaceans, and jellyfish could inspire innovative designs to improve the ways that manmade systems operate in and interact with aquatic environments. Jellyfishes in nature propel themselves through their surroundings by radially expanding and contracting their bell-shaped bodies to push water behind them, which Read More