Source: phys.org “I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.” Could this be the first line of a “Hippocratic Oath” for mathematicians and data Read More
Month: August 2019
Source: zdnet.com It’s hardly news that technology companies are working with machine learning. It’s also hardly news that technology companies targeting enterprises are working AI into their solutions. But when Oracle invited a small group of analysts to peek into the company’s internal machine learning summit, it was the first step toward letting the world in on Read More
Source: thewire.in American geneticist David Reich recently re-opened a debate on the topic of race that went against the dominant liberal scientific consensus. Author of the book titled Who We Are and How We Got Here? (2018), Reich argued in a New York Times article that “while race may be a social construct, differences in genetic ancestry that happen to Read More
Source: zdnet.com AI is advancing rapidly within the enterprise — by Gartner’s count, more than half of organizations already have at least one AI deployment in operation, and they’re planning to substantially accelerate their AI adoption within the next few years. At the same time, the organizations building and deploying these tools have yet to really grapple Read More
Source: hitinfrastructure.com August 21, 2019 – Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) is using the AWS cloud platform with its existing Cerner electronic health record (EHR) to give it the computing power to perform advanced data science research, explained William Feaster, M.D., CHOC’s chief health information officer. AWS gives CHOC access “to an elastic compute environment where we Read More
source: news.mit.edu A novel system developed by MIT researchers automatically “learns” how to schedule data-processing operations across thousands of servers — a task traditionally reserved for imprecise, human-designed algorithms. Doing so could help today’s power-hungry data centers run far more efficiently. Data centers can contain tens of thousands of servers, which constantly run data-processing tasks Read More
Source: sdxcentral.com Intel revealed its first chipsets designed for artificial intelligence (AI) in large data centers. The Intel Nervana NNP-T and Nervana NNP-I processors are dedicated AI accelerators built to support increasingly complex computing workloads and techniques derived from deep learning models and inference. The Intel Nervana NNP-I chip, or Spring Hill, is built on Intel’s 10 nanometer (nm) Read More
Source: informationweek.com Machine learning has grown to have a significant impact on our daily lives: From Amazon’s home assistant Alexa collecting and analyzing information to anticipate our needs, or Facebook suggesting who we should friend, to applications protecting us from credit card fraud and improving online shopping experiences. Organizations want their data to do the heavy lifting Read More
Source: mondaq.com As the seat of the first Industrial Revolution, the UK has a long history of designing regulatory solutions to the challenges posed by technological change. However, regulation has often lagged behind – sometimes very far behind – new technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proving no exception to this historical trend. Is a specialist Read More
Source: theinquirer.net GOOGLE HAS DESIGNED a series of algorithms that allow smartphone users to interpret sign language using their phone camera. Unusually for Google, it has opted not to create an app this time but has released the code into the open-source for developers to make their own. This approach is most recognisable to Londoners, where there is no Read More
Source: interestingengineering.com We’re officially living during the Data Science revolution. As the driving force behind machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), data science can be found at the heart of some of today’s most exciting technological innovations–from self-driving cars to surgical robots and beyond. So it should come as no surprise that the best and Read More
Source: heraldextra.com Where does money go in public education? And how is that money spent? These questions prompted the Office of the State Auditor to create a system to make data-driven decisions on spending in Utah schools, and BYU McKay School’s Educational Leadership and Foundations Department is collaborating with the state auditor to explore ways Read More
Source: indianretailer.com Companies are constantly reinventing themselves, resulting in creative-disruption or creation of new ecosystems. New innovative business models are springing up, inspired by Uber, Ola and Airbnb. The ability to create waves of innovation or ride them is what marks the difference between successful companies and those that are not. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Read More
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
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