Microservices

How Microservice Architecture Is Transforming Human Capital Management

Source: cio.com If ever there has been a need to adapt, 2020 has let it be known that this is the year. COVID-19 has brought about all kinds of workplace changes, from remote work with video meetings to temporary layoffs. It may seem like just another buzzword, but microservices can help human capital management (HCM) Read More

Robotics

SYNTHESIZING ROBOTIC AI SPONTANEOUS BEHAVIOR VIA CHAOTIC ITINERANCY

Source: analyticsinsight.net The chaotic itinerancy is a closed-loop pathway through high-dimensional state space of neural activity, directing cortex in sequence with quasi-attractors. Over the years researchers have created robotic models with attributes, similar to humans. Robotic models which can hear, sense, emotionally support, blink and fight against abuse, are getting heavily researched and deployed in Read More

Data Mining

Hackers are leaning more heavily on cloud resources

Source: itproportal.com Underground cloud services may seem like an oxymoron, but they are quite real, and criminals are using them to speed up attacks and leave very little room for compromised businesses to react. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which found terabytes of internal business data and logins Read More

Data Science

Data Exchange Maker Harbr Closes Series A

Source: datanami.com Harbr, a London startup that helps organizations like Moody’s Analytics to create their own custom data exchanges, yesterday announced that it has completed a Series A round of financing, netting $38.5 million for the growing concern. Gartner predicts that enterprise adoption of data exchanges will increase by 40% over the next two years. Read More

Artificial Intelligence

IIT Delhi Invites Registrations for a Free Online Course on Artificial Intelligence on NPTEL

Source: dqindia.com IIT Delhi, like various other Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), is offering several free online courses on the NPTEL platform at present. One such course is a free online course on “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”, which interested learners can enroll for. The course, however, can be especially Read More

Reinforcement Learning

DeepMind open-sources Lab2D to support creation of 2D environments for AI and machine learning

Source: computing.co.uk Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind announced on Monday that it has open-sourced Lab2D, a scalable environment simulator for artificial intelligence (AI) research that facilitates researcher-led experimentation with environment design. DeepMind describes Lab2D as a system designed to support creation of two-dimensional (2D) layered, discrete “grid-world” environments, in which pieces move around in the same way as chess Read More

Machine Learning

Google Cloud Debuts Professional Machine Learning Engineer Certification

Source: crn.com Cloud Ace, Datatonic, Deloitte Consulting, Devoteam, Pandera Systems, Pythian Services and Quantiphi are among the 50-plus Google Cloud partners with employees who’ve already earned the cloud provider’s new Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification. The certification, unveiled last week, validates cloud professionals’ expertise in designing, building and productionizing machine-learning (ML) models to solve business Read More

Big Data

How to Approach Your Mission-Critical Big Data Strategy

Source: informationweek.com Data centers and disaster recovery are still structured around traditional transaction systems, but more companies are beginning to use big data in mission-critical ways. It’s time for IT to define DR and “mission-critical” status for big data. What are the critical ingredients that support both, and what should companies be doing now? First, Read More

Internet of things

Investing in the Human Element of IIoT

Source: mbtmag.com A recent report by Vodafone Business found that COVID-19 has ignited a surge in Internet of Things (IoT) adoption, with 79 percent of U.S. businesses saying they’ve launched new IoT projects as a result of the ongoing health crisis. However, as IoT continues to digitally transform enterprises and their operations, business leaders must understand how Read More

Machine Learning

IBM open-sources Kubeflow Pipelines on Tekton for portable machine learning models

Source: siliconangle.com IBM Corp. said today it’s hoping to provide a standardized solution for developers to create and deploy machine learning models in production and make them portable to any cloud platform. To do so, it said it’s open-sourcing the Kubeflow machine learning platform on Tekton, a continuous integration/continuous development platform developed by Google LLC. It’s popular with Read More

Deep Learning

System brings deep learning to “internet of things” devices

Source: webwire.com/ Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial intelligence curates your social media and serves your Google search results. Soon, deep learning could also check your vitals or set your thermostat. MIT researchers have developed a system that could bring deep learning neural networks to new — and much smaller — places, like Read More

Robotics

CDC Awards $1.5 Million for Research to Reduce Exposures to Workplace Hazards through Robotic Technology

Source: roboticstomorrow.com The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded $1.5 million over three years to the University of Illinois at Chicago and Worcester Polytechnic Institute to fund projects aimed at reducing workers’ exposures to hazards through the development and use of collaborative robots, or co-robots. CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Read More

Data Mining

Cybercriminals Use Cloud Technology To Accelerate Business Attacks

Source: aithority.com Trend Micro Incorporated, the leader in cloud security, has identified a new class of cybercrime. Criminals are using cloud services and technology to speed up attacks, which decreases the amount of time enterprises have to identify and respond to a breach. Trend Micro Research found terabytes of internal business data and logins for popular providers like Amazon, Read More

Data Science

WHY IS PYTHON STILL A HUGE HIT AMONG DATA SCIENTISTS?

Source: analyticsinsight.net What makes Python a top choice in the Data Science community? Python has become the most used programming language for data science practices. Developed by Guido van Rossum and launched in 1991, it is an interactive and object-oriented programming language similar to PERL or Ruby. Its inherent readability, simplicity, clean visual layout, less syntactic exceptions, greater string manipulation, Read More

Uncategorized

Artificial Intelligence (AI): 9 things IT pros wish the CIO knew

Source – enterprisersproject.com CIOs and IT leaders need to know AI in reasonable depth to understand its pragmatic adoption. Otherwise, you may either overestimate or underestimate AI’s impact. Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, from machine learning and deep learning to natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision, are rapidly advancing. “Technology has never moved at such Read More

Artificial Intelligence

AI-based real time noise suppression coming in Microsoft Teams

Source: expresscomputer.in As more and more people work from home and at times have no control over jarring sounds in the background, Microsoft is set to release a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based noise suppression tool in its video conferencing app Teams. The real time noise suppression in Microsoft Teams will automatically remove background noise during Read More

Big Data

Peking University releases Big Data Ecosystem Index of 2020

Source: indiaeducationdiary.in Peking: On October 10, the National Engineering Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Applied Technology at Peking University released Big Data Ecosystem Index of 2020 in Beijing, China. The project objectively evaluate the status of big data ecosystems in different regions across China, and provide an appropriate innovative platform that is used for Read More

Internet of things

When ‘code rot’ becomes a matter of life or death, especially in the Internet of Things

Source: zdnet.com The possibilities opened up to us by the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is a beautiful thing. However, not enough attention is being paid to the software that goes into the things of IoT. This can be a daunting challenge, since, unlike centralized IT infrastructure, there are, by one estimate, at Read More

Reinforcement Learning

A VR Film/Game with AI Characters Can Be Different Every Time You Watch or Play

Source: technologyreview.com The square-faced, three-legged alien shoves and jostles to get at the enormous plant taking over its tiny planet. But each bite just makes the forbidden fruit grow bigger. Suddenly the plant’s weight flips the whole sphere upside down and all the little creatures drop into space. Quick! Reach in and catch one! Agence, Read More

Deep Learning

Use of Deep Learning to Monitor Volcanic Movement

Source: liputan6.com Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Satellites have the ability to collect large amounts of remote sensing data that can detect ground movements on volcanoes in near real-time. This ground movement can be a marker of impending volcanic activity and instability. However, clouds and atmospheric disturbances and several other things can cause significant noise in the Read More

Uncategorized

Disruptive digital solutions are rewiring banking DNA

Source: businessdailyafrica.com Imagine a bank whose customers can tap on a wearable device to make a payment and receive updates on investments through AI-generated insights. A bank that enables its customer to own their data through the application of blockchain technology and share it with lenders as a validated credit history when applying for a Read More

Data Mining

Better equipped to flatten the curve

Source: thestar.com.my WITH Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Sabah and Selangor placed under a conditional movement control order (MCO) following the spike in Covid-19 cases nationwide, the onus is on every Malaysian now to play a greater and crucial role in flattening the infection curve. We were successful in fighting the pandemic’s spread the first time around, Read More

Robotics

Robotic Process Automation: Transforming the world of finance

Source: Source: cnbctv18.com We are living in a defining moment in history when businesses need a reformed approach—with emerging technology maturing and consumers expecting a faster pace of delivery—teams are overworked, and agility has become a mandatory requirement. As a result, the role of finance and accounting is evolving to support these tremendous changes. In Read More

Python

Start a new career with this 11-course coding bootcamp

Source: ranzware.com The year 2020: what an absolute doozy. Hopefully, your job is steady despite the circumstances — and cutting it for you in terms of wage and fulfillment. But if that’s not the case, you may need to beef up your CV a little to make it shine for (better paying) potential employers. If Read More

Human Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence can reliably help industrial plants go green

Source: jpost.com Due to the public outcry and tax cuts, companies are going green with AI to prevent irreversible harm to the planet. We are the first generation to witness the effects of climate change unfold, and the last with the ability to prevent those effects from intensifying and irreversibly harming our planet. According to Read More

Data Science

TYPES OF DATA SCIENTISTS: AN ARRAY TO CHOOSE FROM

Source: analyticsinsight.net Data scientists come in numerous flavors with various qualities that may suit various kinds of companies relying upon the sorts of issues or projects Data Scientists have consistently been around – it is only that nobody realized that the work that these individuals are doing is called data science. Data Science as a Read More

Artificial Intelligence

HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS CAUSING CYBER ATTACKS

Source: analyticsinsight.net As artificial intelligence (AI) emerges into the mainstream, there is misinformation and confusion about what it’s capable of and the potential risks it constitutes. Our culture is enriched with dystopian visions of human ruin at the feet of all-knowing machines. On the other hand, most people appreciate the potential good AI might do for the Read More

Internet of things

The Good and Not So Good of the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020

Source: securityboulevard.com In September, the House of Representatives passed a bill requiring that all internet of things (IoT) devices purchased by the government meet minimum security requirements. Of course, with everything being connected to everything, there needs to be a step function improvement in the security of the networks being used to share information. I Read More

Microservices

Top Networking CTOs See a Future of Distributed Apps and Microservices

Source: enterprisenetworkingplanet.com The networking industry in 2020 is not the same as it was in 2019, nor any year prior for that matter.The global pandemic has changed the role of the network and networking technology from being an enabler for business to being the foundation on which all businesses, schools and homes run. That’s not Read More

Reinforcement Learning

Researchers detail LaND, AI that learns from autonomous vehicle disengagements

Source: venturebeat.com UC Berkeley AI researchers say they’ve created AI for autonomous vehicles driving in unseen, real-world landscapes that outperforms leading methods for delivery robots driving on sidewalks. Called LaND, for Learning to Navigate from Disengagements, the navigation system studies disengagement events, then predicts when disengagements will happen in the future. The approach is meant Read More