Source: newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: With the first batch of 30 students of the Inter-Disciplinary Dual Degree (IDDD) programme on Data Science, of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, all set to complete their course, the Institute has decided to increase the number of seats of the programme, said a statement issued by the Institute. IIT Madras Read More
Source: fiercehealthcare.com Insurance giant Humana and Microsoft announced a seven-year strategic partnership to use cloud and artificial intelligence technologies to build predictive solutions and intelligent automation to support Humana members and their care teams. Humana plans to use Microsoft’s technology muscle, specifically its Azure cloud, Azure AI and Microsoft 365 collaboration technologies, as well as interoperability standards Read More
Source: irishnews.com BIG data analytics is what runs much business decision-making today. It’s a complex field, light years on from the basic spreadsheets and hit and miss analysis of consumer habits of 20 years ago. Dr Aislinn Rice, managing director of Belfast-based Analytics Engines, is organising the seventh Big Data Belfast festival (www.bigdatabelfast.com) on October Read More
Source: ladailypost.com KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE ― The Air Force Research Laboratory will begin maneuvers today, Oct. 20, as the first-ever inspection mission to support real-time on-orbit spacecraft anomaly resolution operations. This effort will be a rendezvous between the experimental Mycroft satellite and a second experimental AFRL satellite called the Small Satellite Space Surveillance System, or S5. Read More
source: express-journal.com Leading software company Zoho Corporation has recently launched a fullstack serverless application called Catalyst which is specifically aimed at developers. Zoho claims that the software is an easy to use yet powerful applicaiton that allows developers to build and run microservices and applications. Catalyst evidently grants developers access to the same frameworks and Read More
Source: wgrz.com SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s latest phone and smart-home devices came packaged with a not-so-subtle message: Google cares about your privacy. Does it? The tech company has had a complicated relationship with user information in the past. Google’s latest steps offer consumers some additional protections, although it’s unclear how much more secure users will Read More
Source: insidebigdata.com Inzata, the full-service data analytics platform powered by artificial intelligence, announces the general availability of its AI-Powered Data Enrichment Services, launching with 38 new One-Click Enrichments for all subscription users. Inzata’s data enrichment services make any raw data more useful and accurate, and therefore more valuable. “Data enrichment” is the process of adding curated, high-quality Read More
Source: techxplore.com Deep learning can help scholars restore ancient Greek texts. Specifically, researchers at University of Oxford (Thea Sommerschield and Professor Jonathan Prag) and DeepMind (Yannis Assael) built Pythia, training a neural network to guess missing words or characters from Greek inscriptions. These were on surfaces including stone, ceramic and metal. They were between 1500 Read More
Source: towardsdatascience.com I hope I know this answer when I was trying hard to enter into data science before I graduated from university. Some background of mine, I came from a Mathematics background, who does not take a lot of programming courses during university. The programming language I learned in university included R, C++, and Read More
Source: indiatoday.in Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged business leaders and technocrats to build a ‘bridge’ between the artificial intelligence (AI) and human intentions, while stating that his government is using technology to effectively deliver the benefits of welfare schemes to targeted groups. Addressing a gathering of several top business leaders including Ratan Tata, Read More
Source: cleantechnica.com The 1.5 meter, silvery gray velociraptor lunges forward, interrupting the flight of the tennis ball with its head before the ball can get to the soccer net at the end of the gym. Its tail stretches out, stopping another ball. It pivots, somewhat clumsily, and runs three steps in the other direction to Read More
Source: hbr.org Artificial intelligence, including machine learning, presents exciting opportunities to transform the health and life sciences spaces. It offers tantalizing prospects for swifter, more accurate clinical decision making and amplified R&D capabilities. However, open issues around regulation and clinical relevance remain, causing both technology developers and potential investors to grapple with how to overcome today’s barriers to adoption, Read More
Source: itworld.com There’s data, and then there’s big data. So, what’s the difference? Big data defined A clear big data definition can be difficult to pin down because big data can cover a multitude of use cases. But in general the term refers to sets of data that are so large in volume and so Read More
Source: zacks.com Cognex (CGNX – Free Report) recently announced the acquisition of Seoul-based SUALAB, a developer of deep learning-based vision software. Although the financial terms of the acquisition have been kept under wraps, per a Pulse article the transaction price is estimated to be $168.6 million. Deep learning allows Cognex to solve the most complex vision application operations in factories Read More
Source: theregister.co.uk Ahead of Microsoft’s Ignite conference next month, the tech goliath has announced Dapr, now available as an Alpha preview, a runtime to simplify developing microservices. Dapr is not a replacement for other runtimes or frameworks such as .NET or Java. Rather, it “injects a side-car container/process to each compute unit”, according to the docs, exposing Read More
Ssource: barrons.com Microsoft has a key ally in its fight for business as companies move more software to the cloud: the people who run corporate information-technology departments. In a Thursday note, Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss reiterated his confidence in Microsoft’s (ticker: MSFT) future, based on the bank’s latest survey of companies’ IT heads. Although uncertainty about the economy has weighed Read More
Source: inc42.com Every year, around 50,000 individuals graduate to become certified doctors. In order to maintain the minimum doctor-patient ratio, as suggested by WHO, India will need 2.3 Mn doctors by 2030. If there was ever a requirement to push healthcare in India into the future, it is now! Today is the time when we Read More
Source: bdtechtalks.com Earlier this month, Business Insider reported that retail giant Walmart has more than 1,500 data scientists and 50,000 software engineers—and it is seeking to hire even more to advance its artificial intelligence technology. Given that Walmart is primarily a brick-and-mortar retail outlet, this news tells us much about the role data science and AI Read More
Source: aithority.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are amongst the emerging trends in Business and Marketing. Yet, a lot of this cleverness is located in the Cloud. Read: in big server parks with high-end processing capabilities. In a not too distant future, several applications will enter our lives that require an increased amount of Intelligence and Computation Read More
Source: searchenterpriseai.techtarget.com MicroStrategy customers now can use DataRobot machine learning models to automate AI processes for predictive analytics and other business intelligence applications. Under a new partnership between DataRobot, a Boston-based enterprise AI vendor, and MicroStrategy, a 30-year-old independent analytics and BI vendor based in Tysons Corner, Va., business users of the MicroStrategy 2019 platform Read More
Source: openaccessgovernment.org The Digital Single strategy of the European Commission sets out to “open up digital opportunities for people and business and enhance Europe’s position as a world leader in the digital economy.”(1) This article will briefly examine a part of that by looking at the work of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (Unit A.1). We Read More
Source: tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com Tech Mahindra plans to cut service delivery time for clients by reusing some standard components it has built up over the years. The move is expected to improve its productivity and margins, a senior executive said. Tech Mahindra, among the top five Indian IT services exporters, has been building a library of project-specific intellectual property on Read More
sourcec: news18.com The UAE has set up an artificial intelligence university, claimed to be the first in the world, in Abu Dhabi. The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) was inaugurated on October 17 and it offers courses for undergraduate students. It is also accepting applications for its first masters and PhD programmes Read More
Source: rose-hulman.edu Rose-Hulman continues to adapt its curriculum to meet the challenges of today’s fast-paced world. The institute has added data science as a secondary academic major. This multidisciplinary field combines science, mathematical algorithms and computer science principles to extract knowledge and insights from data. The new course of study is offered by departments covering Read More
Source: scitecheuropa.eu One of the companies leading the way is FiO, an innovative new “middleware” ecosystem that has partnered with IBM and is set to help businesses take advantage of the latest blockchain technology. Following Blockchain 1.0 (digital assets) and 2.0 (smart contracts), the approaching Blockchain 3.0 era promises to create compliant independent financial markets and economies Read More
Source: searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com WebPurify has launched a limited beta release of Optical Character Recognition Profanity Filter Service. It combines WebPurify’s Optical Character Recognition technology with its profanity filter solution into a single API. The software can detect profane text in memes and other images in blogs, forums, social media apps, children’s sites, in-game chats, interactive agency campaigns and Read More
Source: finextra.com The migration of the firm’s data to a cloud-based environment will enhance operational efficiencies through greater productivity and business agility, and enhanced service levels. This is part of IGM’s ongoing execution of a previously announced five-year transformation to modernize its digital platforms and technology infrastructure. Adopting Google Cloud will also provide IGM with Read More
Source: dqindia.com People have more trust in robots than their managers, according to the second annual AI at Work study conducted by Oracle and Future Workplace, a research firm preparing leaders for disruptions in recruiting, development and employee engagement. The study of 8,370 employees, managers and HR leaders across 10 countries, found that artificial intelligence Read More
Source: sify.com Bangkok: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a helpful tool for governments in the Asia Pacific region to deliver public services, revealed a new UN-Google report on Wednesday. The study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Google cited case studies highlighting the importance of Read More
Source: itproportal.com Businesses today continue to be bombarded by an increasing number of cyberthreats, as hackers become adept at identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in security systems. A survey by the World Economic Forum ranked data theft and large-scale cyberattacks 4th and 5th in a list of the biggest risks facing our world. With cybercrime regularly Read More