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
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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
Source: nextgov.com The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Assistant Director for Artificial Intelligence offered fresh details Wednesday into a memo being developed to help foster public trust and build agencies’ confidence in regulating artificial intelligence technologies. “This is a memo directed to agencies that suggests regulatory and non-regulatory principles for how you Read More
Source: techcrunch.com Microsoft today announced two new open-source projects: Dapr, a portable, event-driven runtime that takes some of the complexity out of building microservices, and the Open Application Model (OAM), a specification that allows developers to define the resources their applications need to run on Kubernetes clusters and which Microsoft developed in cooperation with Alibaba Cloud. As Read More
Source: spglobal.com “Garbage in, garbage out” – it’s a cliché in machine learning circles. Anyone who works with artificial intelligence (AI) knows that the quality of the data goes a long way toward determining the quality of the result. But “garbage” is a broad and expanding category in data science – poorly labeled or inaccurate Read More
Source: simplilearn.com Many people fear that the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any industry is going to eliminate their jobs. In healthcare, for instance, AI is already making a big splash in radiology. That’s deterring many students in medical school from pursuing a career in the field. But rather than eliminating the job of a radiologist, AI is Read More
Source:techrepublic.com Programmers and developers can tap into a variety of languages to build applications, websites, and other programs. Ultimately, your preferred language is going to be the one with which you’re most comfortable and that gets the job done most effectively. But one particular language emerged as the top choice in a study released in September by Read More
Source: financialexpress.com Google’s platform — Google Developers Launchpad to help startups grow will now support social impact startups in India. The platform has partnered with startup accelerator Social Alpha to help such startups with mentorship, tools, and methodologies for growing businesses. The tie-up will help the incubator develop learning programmes for startups based on information from a select Read More
Source: fastcompany.com The robot itself looks like if you crossed Honda’s Asimo with the glowing gamepad from Dance Dance Revolution. In other words, it’s your typical, white plastic humanoid robot, but with a twist. Built as part of new research out of the Technical University of Munich, the H-1 is the first robot in history to be covered Read More
Source: epsnews.com Autonomous cars have been recently hitting the headlines and dominating tech-talks. It’s seen as a post-Uber disruption to public commuting and transportation of goods. It is surely not a figment of imagination in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) which is being used to complement driverless cars. The combined might of AI and driverless Read More
Source: itproportal.com In recent years, UK businesses have invested billions in large scale digital transformation initiatives with a view to becoming more automated, efficient and agile. But in reality, not all of these digital bets have paid off. According to one study, 1 in 4 UK businesses have had a digital transformation project fail. As Read More
Source: fudzilla.com More than 76 percent of enterprise organisations are planning to rearchitect apps for microservices, according to a Forrester report. The Forester Research, backed by Ensonor and Wipro, found that enterprise adoption of microservices is continuing to increase as businesses transform themselves to compete in the digital era. The research found that 76 percent Read More
Source: neowin.net In May, Microsoft released the Robot Operating System for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise. In the same month, the tech giant also introduced IoT Plug and Play as part of its new intelligent edge offerings. More recently, a cross-Azure IoT collaboration with IoT Messaging was unveiled to simplify location and spatial intelligence usage. Today, during a keynote at CEATEC Read More
Source: nbc-2.com FORT MYERS, Fla. – Candidates running for political office in 2020 have the ability to track your phone without your knowledge. Their goal is to target you with ads and text messages to try to drive you to the polls. What many voters don’t realize is campaigns can now draw geo circles around Read More
Source: dpaonthenet.net The ultimate aim is to use this knowledge to design fly-like robots. “Just think about what a fly can do,” says Professor Pavan Ramdya, whose lab at EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute, with the lab of Professor Pascal Fua at EPFL’s Institute for Computer Science, led the study. “A fly can climb across terrain that a Read More
Source: venturebeat.com It’s often assumed that as the complexity of an AI system increases, it becomes invariably less interpretable. But researchers have begun to challenge that notion with libraries like Facebook’s Captum, which explains decisions made by neural networks with the deep learning framework PyTorch, as well as IBM’s AI Explainability 360 toolkit and Microsoft’s InterpretML. In a bid Read More
Source: news18.com Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers. Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and exploiting mathematical similarities between languages is a promising avenue, even if a universal communicator a la Star Trek remains a distant Read More
Source: techrepublic.com Electric scooters are invading America, with scooters from popular brands including Lime, Bird, Spin, Lyft, and Uber becoming commonplace in major city centers. These dockless scooters, which are controlled by mobile app, accounted for 45.8% of all micromobility trips in 2018; this number is significant, considering 84 million micromobility trips were taken in 2018 Read More