Source: gadget.co.za There are two common misperceptions about data science that exist in many organisations today, and which are holding them back from unlocking the full value of the discipline for themselves and their customers. The first of these is that data science is all about algorithms, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. And Read More
Month: October 2019
Source: star2.com Providing citizens with good healthcare is one of the greatest challenges facing governments today. Changing population demographics and the prevalence of chronic disease in developing countries are putting tremendous pressure on healthcare systems around the world. In Malaysia, the population over 65 years of age is expected to double to nearly 15% of Read More
Source: towardsdatascience.com As you already know-how Machine learning is playing a crucial role in predicting your upcoming actions. Now it’s time to see how Machine learning is revolutionizing Mobile app development. What is Machine learning? Machine learning is the application of Artificial Intelligence which makes computers predict the outcomes automatically without the intervention of human Read More
Source: infoq.com In a recent blog post, Google announced enhancements to a part of its Vision AI portfolio – AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and the Video Intelligence API each received updates to enhance their capabilities. Both AutoML Vision Edge and AutoML Video were both introduced earlier this year, in April, as a part of Read More
Source: devops.com Part of the failings and shortcomings of AI concern the ramp or process for getting there. For an AI project to succeed, it is critical to have your data fully deployed, available, structured and cleaned. You also must have some algorithms (ML/deep learning/natural language processing) ready to pull the insights and focused data, Read More
Source:indiatoday.in Google introduced its artificial intelligence (AI) based voice assistant at its annual developers conference – Google I/O – last year. At the time, the tech giant demonstrated how Duplex could make reservations and even have a chat with real people over a phone call. The tech giant piloted the program in select states in Read More
Source: openaccessgovernment.org On 8th August 2019, Health Secretary Matt Hancock allocated an additional £250 million to be invested in an artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory that will lead to a better ability to screen for cancer, identify patients most at risk of diseases such as heart disease or dementia, build systems to detect people at risk of Read More
Source: insights.dice.com The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank, once asked 979 researchers, tech pros, and policy leaders about the future of artificial intelligence (A.I.). The results weren’t exactly comforting: while 63 percent of respondents believed that A.I. will improve individual lives by 2030, some 37 percent said that the technology won’t benefit humanity. What’s needed, Read More
Source: genengnews.com Researchers at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute say that machine learning’s powerful ability to detect patterns in complex data is revolutionizing how scientists diagnose disease and, now, how they discover new drugs. The Sanford Burnham team has developed a machine-learning algorithm that gleans information from microscope images that allow for high-throughput Read More
Source: physicsworld.com Head CT is used worldwide to assess neurological emergencies and detect acute brain haemorrhages. Interpreting these head CT scans requires readers to identify tiny subtle abnormalities, with near-perfect sensitivity, within a 3D stack of greyscale images characterized by poor soft-tissue contrast, low signal-to-noise ratio and a high incidence of artefacts. As such, even Read More
Source: asiatimes.com As commentators focus more on China’s burgeoning surveillance system, an excellent opportunity for critical reflection arises. In the past two years, scores of articles in reputable publications describe China’s surveillance capability in Orwellian terms – a dystopian cacophony of cameras, artificial intelligence (AI), facial-recognition software, and constant social monitoring. Labeled the “social credit system,” China’s practice of Read More
Source: venturebeat.com What’s the best way to measure the quality of media generated from whole cloth by AI models? It’s not easy. One of the most popular metrics for images is the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID), which takes photos from both the target distribution and the model being evaluated and uses an AI object recognition system to capture important Read More
Source: hpcwire.com Oct. 22, 2019 — NVIDIA with Microsoft Corp. today announced a technology collaboration focused on intelligent edge computing, designed to help industries better manage and gain insights from the growing flood of data created by retail stores, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, connected buildings, urban infrastructure and other environments. By enabling closer integration between Microsoft Azure and Read More
Source: cardiovascularbusiness.com A novel machine learning algorithm improved patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in a study of nearly 1,000 heart failure patients in the U.S., representing an opportunity to optimize care and spare certain individuals from a pricey procedure that might not benefit them. CRT is indicated in patients with medically refractory systolic Read More
Source: indiatoday.in Researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad have developed low power chips that can be used in Artificial Intelligence-powered devices. They have developed Magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (MQCA) based on nanomagnetic logic architectural design methodology of approximate arithmetic circuits. The researchers are working towards a vision of realizing resource-constrained Magnetic Chips for Read More
Source: edexlive.com At about $1.2 trillion globally, the fashion industry is one of the biggest in the world. Associated mostly with the glitz and glamour, the modern-day fashion world is moving at a rapid and aggressive pace where designers are expected to be not only creative but also experimental and innovative in their thinking, approach Read More
Source: forbes.com Fortunately, in reality they’re not all that strange, and certainly not without precedent. It helps to think about their business purpose, and how much they’re like previous important advances in business technology. That requires a bit of abstraction, a nice word for simplifying, based on historical analogies. As with many things in business, Read More
Source: towardsdatascience.com Okay, let’s first admit that we’re all living in the century of data now. Machine learning and data analysis technologies have already become an integral part of our present-day life. So, what would be next? In this post, I am not going to state what kind of future data science will encounter, whether Read More
Source: computerweekly.com Organisations in Australia and Singapore are among the most advanced in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region in making data central to their business through the widespread use of data analytics, a new survey has found. According to the Data Readiness Index (DRI) developed by technology analyst firm IDC, Australian firms earned the highest average score Read More
Source: robohub.org The Mabu robot, with its small yellow body and friendly expression, serves, literally, as the face of the care management startup Catalia Health. The most innovative part of the company’s solution, however, lies behind Mabu’s large blue eyes. Catalia Health’s software incorporates expertise in psychology, artificial intelligence, and medical treatment plans to help Read More
Source: slashgear.com Hyundai has announced a world’s first technology that it called Machine Learning based Smart Cruise Control (SCC-ML). SCC-ML is a technology that is meant to incorporate the driver’s patterns into the self-driving behavior to create a custom experience for the driver. Hyundai says that the tech is an industry first and plans to Read More
Source: aithority.com Inzata, the first 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, Read More
Source: news.mit.edu If you’ve ever seen a self-driving car in the wild, you might wonder about that spinning cylinder on top of it. It’s a “lidar sensor,” and it’s what allows the car to navigate the world. By sending out pulses of infrared light and measuring the time it takes for them to bounce off Read More
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: There is a huge scope for India to improve medical treatment by taking advantage of technical developments such as AI and data analytics, former Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya said on Monday. “With AI (artificial intelligence), data analytics and all the technology there, treatments can perhaps be done better (in Read More
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