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
Month: August 2019
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
Source: forbes.com Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its acquisition of MapR business assets. MapR began as a company focused on providing a cloud data platform. They extended their message into machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), claiming to be good support for data sources needed in those arenas. In addition to the cloud, they Read More
Source: data-economy.com Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has completed its $15.75bn acquisition of analytics vendor Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA), its biggest ever acquisition. The deal was announced this June, and came just after Google moved to acquire data analytics company Looker for $2.6bn. With Tableau, Salesforce says it will play a greater role in driving digital transformation, enabling companies Read More
Source: dataversity.net According to a recent press release, “GreenSky, Inc., a leading financial technology company Powering Commerce at the Point of Sale®, today announced the launch of a newly established Data Science division to boost the Company’s consumer protection program. The company is investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning to more accurately identify suspicious activity, Read More
Source: forbes.com The idea of privacy is in many ways antithetical to the data-driven mindset promoted by computer science curriculums over the past decade. Massive advances in data availability and analytic capabilities has led to a reshaping of many curriculums towards coursework teaching how to manage, explore, assess, understand and exploit these newfound digital riches. Read More
Source: towardsdatascience.com In recent media reports, the threat of climate change has supposedly become so great that it is said to be capable of wiping out all of humanity, a “climapocalypse” — the data do not support this claim. As a practicing climatologist, I have personally handled and analyzed datasets with large time spans (over Read More
Source: venturebeat.com While an exponential growth in data and increase in compute power have been key drivers of AI innovation, without research — and the tremendous effort academics and companies invest in it — these advances wouldn’t go very far. At his Transform 2019 talk last month, Lyft’s head of product and machine learning, Gil Arditi, turned Read More
Source: mondaq.com SEC Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis S.P. Kothari highlightedpolicy challenges of big data. Speaking at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference on big data and high-performance computing, Mr. Kothari stated that the SEC faces three main big-data policy challenges: security, technology and communications. First, he Read More
Source: helpnetsecurity.com ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security and compliance, announced a new multi-cloud software offering, ClearDATA Locate, enabling healthcare organizations to build a more cohesive and traceable protected health information (PHI) inventory within Kubernetes workloads available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. Built with ClearDATA’s Healthcare Aware Distributed Read More
Source: gizmodo.com A collaborative research team claims their artificially intelligent system should be recognized as the rightful inventor of two innovative designs, in a potentially disruptive development in patent law. Patent law is complicated even at the best of times, but a new project led by researchers from the University of Surrey could make it Read More
Source: newatlas.com When it comes to medical ailments and their diagnosis, time is absolutely of the essence. The sooner we’re aware of a developing condition, the better chance we have of treating and ultimately overcoming it. Lately we’re seeing how artificial intelligence is poised to play a greater and greater role in detecting tell-tale signs Read More
Source: forbes.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating massive ripples around the world. For some, it enhances customer experiences; for others, it reduces costs through automation. AI analyzes large data sets with ease, enabling better decision making and uncovering new business opportunities. Now, it’s also working its way into content management. We’ve already seen examples of AI Read More
Source: techcrunch.com A German privacy watchdog has ordered Google to cease manual reviews of audio snippets generated by its voice AI. This follows a leak last month of scores of audio snippets from the Google Assistant service. A contractor working as a Dutch language reviewer handed more than 1,000 recordings to the Belgian news site VRT which was then able to Read More
Source: aithority.com The emergence of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) was a watershed in helping businesses cost-effectively acquire and tap into the value of data. Thanks to software robots, massive quantities of electronic information were no longer trapped in internal and external systems, and businesses could now harness the power of RPA to access, manage and use this data Read More
Source: telemediaonline.co.uk Ranplan Wireless is collaborating with the University of Warwick on a project funded by Innovate UK’s Geospatial Commission to identify wireless blackspots to support the rollout of 5G and help improve urban and rural coverage. The COCKPIT-5G project will use crowd blackspot intelligence sourcing and social media techniques along with sophisticated real-time natural language processing to curate consumer data and build up an accurate connectivity map of the UK. With the start of the 5G rollout in the UK, new cell sites are being planned to address Read More
Source: zdnet.com The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has built a Customer Engagement Engine it has touted as powering customer experience through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. “[It] is an advanced system which combines AI, machine learning, and our customer data to continuously optimise and prioritise across all of the available Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net The multinational professional services company, Accenture may expand its data science team in India to develop an Asia-Pacific (APAC) hub with more than 500-membered team based in Gurugram. Anindya Basu, the country managing director of Accenture India said that the proposal is still being discussed. Basu is also a member of APAC management Read More
Source: cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com In the era of smart automation and vast information which is readily available, Artificial Intelligence is scripting the possibilities for a better future. Over the last two years, AI has become a buzzword, and there has been significant development around it. IDC predicts that 75% of developer teams will use AI technology in one or Read More