Source – enidnews.com Pass on the left. Maintain a respectable distance from others. Stop or change course to avoid bumping into someone. For most humans, a stroll down a hallway or sidewalk is second nature. Now, engineers at MIT have designed an autonomous robot with “sociably aware navigation” – the ability to keep pace with foot Read More
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Source – businessworld.in Currently, businesses are using various methods in big data and analytics to analyze customer’s data to improve competitiveness. Application of these methods not only generate vast amount of data but also result in unstructured information. Further, to extract precise and structured data, Text Mining tools are applied.Text Mining or Data Mining is Read More
Source – informationweek.com IT teams can salvage the value of legacy systems while pivoting to a new foundation offering better customer experiences. CIOs and their teams are routinely maintaining costly, long-running legacy systems that have gathered a large amount of data about purchases, services, and customer behavior over the years. Sure, they’re getting a bit creaky Read More
Source – indiatimes.com When you buy a product from an online marketplace, have you ever wondered how your order gets processed among millions of others? Does it baffle you how some banks use chatbots to solve customer queries based on transaction history, or that financial and portfolio management institutions deploy sentiment analysis and algorithms to consistently Read More
Source – forbes.com Moshe Yanai has been re-thinking the box for more than 40 years, inventing new configurations of the large containers in which we keep the data generated by our constantly expanding digital lives. Data is eating the world and Yanai has been staying on top of its exponential growth by applying smart algorithms (what Read More
Source – forbes.com These and many other fascinating insights are from the Boston Consulting Group and MIT Sloan Management Review study published this week, Reshaping Business With Artificial Intelligence. An online summary of the report is available, and a PDF of the report is accessible here (22 pp., PDF, free, no opt-in). The survey is based on interviews with more Read More
Source – forbes.com From Siri to Alexa, customers are becoming accustomed to AI-powered solutions and soon they will expect the same for their local businesses. Sure, an AI roll-out can be daunting, but by adopting a strategic approach and adding smart software, small businesses will not only be able to differentiate themselves from competitors, but compete Read More
Source – cmo.com.au More psychologists are now coming the tech space because they’re trying to teach machines to become more social and sociable, according to BT’s head of customer insight and futures, Dr Nicola Millard. “I’m not a technologist, I’m a psychologist – and it makes a lot of sense having me on-board because innovation in Read More
Source – laboratorytalk.com The device, called c-Air, is intended to give more people around the world the ability to accurately detect dangerous airborne particulate matter, the researchers said. It works by detecting pollutants and determining their concentration and size using a mobile microscope connected to a smartphone and a machine-learning algorithm that automatically analyses the Read More
Source – techtarget.com A service registry sits between a client and server in a network and controls access between both of them. It is a critical part of the application stack and has a big impact on the end-user experience. With the growing use of microservices, the role of a service registry has become even more important Read More
Source – td.org Artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzz phrase du jour. Both the general and business press are touting new advances while circulating horror stories. Top corporate individuals are debating the merits. Every supplier is talking about how AI is being baked into their products. However, we’ve seen such hype before. The real question Read More
Source – datanami.com As the AI services ecosystem expands, vendors are offering automation tools designed to make life easier for embattled data scientists through toolkits used to build machine and deep learning models, and then move those trained models to production. That’s the premise behind the upgraded version of machine learning “lab” from toolkit vendor deepsense.ai Read More
Source – theguardian.com Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies, revealed on Thursday that it was hacked back in May, exposing the personal data of up to 143 million people. The data accessed by hackers contains extremely sensitive information like social security numbers, birth data, consumer’s names, driver’s license numbers and credit card numbers. This breach is Read More
Source – techrepublic.com Big data exploration usually starts at a high level of data abstraction, and then gradually plumbs into the depths of the data as companies learn more from it. The approach has worked well, and is operative in many different types of applications. For instance, GIS and mapping systems use data to visualize a Read More
Source – siliconrepublic.com If you want to be a data scientist, the tech world is still rife with opportunities. As with most booming tech sectors, attracting enough talent to fill the demand is important. One way of doing this is to give visibility to the talent that is already there, highlighting the importance of data science Read More
Source – cio.com Until recently, data scientists could design algorithms with the assumption that the data to be explored would be brought together in a single, centralized repository, such as a data lake or a cloud data center. But with the explosion of data and the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), social media, mobility and Read More
Source – forbes.com Artificial intelligence is firmly embedded throughout the economy. Financial services firms use it to provide investment advice to customers, automakers are using it in vehicle autopilot systems, technology companies are using it to create virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri, and retailers are using artificial intelligence (AI) together with customers’ prior sales histories, Read More
Source – afr.com Work is a defining feature of our civilisation. We spend more time in our jobs than any other activity and the spoils of our labour provide us the means to survive. It gives identity, status and purpose. So we can be forgiven if we get nervous when our jobs are threatened. And there Read More
Source – technologyreview.com Avitas Systems, a GE subsidiary based in Boston, is now using drones and robots to automate the inspection of infrastructure such as pipelines, power lines, and transportation systems. The company is using off-the-shelf machine-learning technology from Nvidia (50 Smartest Companies 2017) to guide the checkups, and to automatically identify anomalies in the data Read More
Source – yourstory.com This autumn or post-monsoon, depending on which part of the world you live in, the movie Blade Runner will see a return after 35 years. If you remember the first movie, the artificial intelligence character, or the “replicant”, the antagonist, played by Rutger Hauer, saves the protagonist, played by Harrison Ford, from dying. After that, Read More
Source – infoworld.com Nginx has introduced an application server for microservices environments. The open source Nginx Unit is designed for environments where developers use multiple languages in their deployments. It’s typical in microservices to use multiple languages and thus have multiple software stacks to manage and control, the company says. In its beta release this week, Nginx Unit Read More
Source – enterprisersproject.com Even Match.com could not have done a better job finding a mate for microservices. Microservices – single-function services built by small teams, independent from other functions, and communicating only through public interfaces – simply make a great match for containers. Microservices plus containers represent a shift to delivering applications through modular services that Read More
Source – cio.com It’s getting pretty hard to escape Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). I don’t mean the impact that AI will have on your life — I just mean the idea of AI. In the business and technology press, a single day does not pass without some reference to the impact that AI is having — or Read More
Source – cxotoday.com The farming industry is on the cusp of a so-called ‘technological revolution’. With drones, robots and intelligent monitoring systems now successfully being used in research and field trials, artificial intelligence, or machine learning, is set to revolutionise the future of farming as the next phase of Industrial Revolution in agriculture is on the horizon. According to the Read More
Source – forbes.com As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts, I offer the following list as a public service announcement. Machine learning means learning from data; AI is a buzzword. Machine learning lives up to the hype: there are an incredible number of problems that you can solve by providing the right training data Read More
Source – dailyutahchronicle.com In Plato’s “Phaedrus,” Socrates tells the legend of King Thamus who is given the gift of writing from Theuth, the Egyptian god of knowledge. Writing, Theuth persuades, will act as a mass remedy for memory loss, allowing information to be more easily remembered and stored. No longer will people have to rely on Read More
Source – top500.org Retail giant Walmart is going to deploy an GPU-accelerated cloud to be used for machine learning – that according to an investor note penned by Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research. Although it’s not known how Chowdhry came by the information, he said within the next six months or so, WalMart is going Read More
Source – hpcwire.com For about a year the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) has been assembling best practices and open source components around data-driven scientific research to create a rapidly deployable “cross-disciplinary Data CyberInfrastructure” dubbed xDCI. Funded in part by NSF, and quite far along in its first two test cases, xDCI could become a powerful enabler Read More
Source – thecipherbrief.com Hunger and political instability go hand in hand. Fighting and droughts across Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, and parts of Nigeria have caused dire situations and have driven up food prices, placing over 20 million people under increased risk of food insecurity. Terrorist groups and criminals prey on such situations, exacerbating political tensions and violence. Leadership Read More
Source – news18.com As Tipsy methodically unfolds an arm to select a glass, retrieve ice and mix a drink, it’s all a far cry from the flashy swagger of Tom Cruise in Cocktail. But then he doesn’t have the twinkle in his eye of a fictional Hollywood bartender — or any eyes at all, for that matter Read More