Source – forbes.com We produce 2.5 exabytes of data every day. That’s equivalent to 250,000 Libraries of Congress or the content of 5 million laptops. Every minute of every day 3.2 billion global internet users continue to feed the data banks with 9,722 pins on Pinterest, 347,222 tweets, 4.2 million Facebook likes plus ALL the other data we create by Read More
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Source – digitaltrends.com Distortions in space-time sound like they’d be more of a concern on an episode of Star Trek than they would in the real world. However, that’s not necessarily true: analyzing images of gravitational waves could help enormously extend both the range and resolution of telescopes like Hubble, and allow us to see farther into the universe Read More
Source – hindustantimes.com In July 2016, Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel hired Jill Watson, a teaching assistant for the spring semester. Jill was great at online student interactions, answering questions and was nominated as an outstanding assistant by students. The difference between Jill and other assistants? Jill is a chatbot. Her DNA is based on an Read More
Source – information-age.com There are many qualities that we search for in great leaders: wisdom; loyalty; constancy; courage; the ability to communicate persuasively, balanced with a willingness to hear uncomfortable truths and to change direction. But when it comes to a great data leader, a crucial role in an increasingly digitalised era, the defining characteristics vary Read More
Source – sfchronicle.com In spring 2016, UC Berkeley’s first Foundations of Data Science course attracted around 300 students. This semester, nearly 1,000 have enrolled — and university officials are working to create a data science undergraduate major, the first new major for the College of Letters and Science in at least 16 years. “No program has Read More
Source – fiercehealthcare.com Big data has a lot of potential to improve healthcare and a number of companies are developing applications to help make that happen, according to a new report. Healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information dove into government and trade source databases to outline some of the uses of big data and the groups that are driving the push for Read More
Source – azcentral.com You might not be in your dream job. Most likely, you don’t make as much money as you would like. But let’s face it: Today’s employment market has improved substantially over the past several years. The nation already is nearly back to what economists call full employment, with a U.S. jobless rate easing to near 4 Read More
Source – cbronline.com It’s safe to say that Python is a pretty popular tool across a whole range of industries and professions, thanks, no doubt, to the programming language’s accessibility, wealth of libraries and frameworks, and of course, its huge community of die-hard devs that claim Python should be the tool of choice for any self-respecting Read More
Source – businessworld.in You must have heard the famous quote, ‘If you don’t know where you are going, then any road will get you there.’ However, in a data driven world where the contention among organizations to get dynamic is getting close with each passing day. Every business organization is peddling up to capture all the Read More
Source – zdnet.com At the core of any DevOps initiative is the judicious employment of containers and microservices, which dramatically speed up and simplifying the jobs of developers and operations teams alike. While many of the tried-and-true rules of IT management apply, containers and microservices also add new considerations, and new ways of doing things. To Read More
Source – huffingtonpost.com If an enterprise has Big Data on hand, the urge to convert it into actionable information that would help business thrive seems obvious. Let’s zoom in on how we can apply Machine Learning to business. To illustrate the case, we’ll use the results of a problem-solving session that took place at a datathon. Read More
Source – nytimes.com The technology entrepreneur Elon Musk recently urged the nation’s governors to regulate artificial intelligence “before it’s too late.” Mr. Musk insists that artificial intelligence represents an “existential threat to humanity,” an alarmist view that confuses A.I. science with science fiction. Nevertheless, even A.I. researchers like me recognize that there are valid concerns about its impact Read More
Source – news.xinhuanet.com Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown that neural networks, a form of artificial intelligence, can analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods. The work, by a research team at the Kavli Institute for Read More
Source – fool.com A compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40%: That’s how fast Accenture (NYSE: ACN)projects the market for artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare will expand through 2021. You’ve probably read plenty of articles talking about how AI will transform the world as we know it. It’s not just hype — and definitely not when it comes to Read More
Source – americanthinker.com When I look at Hurricane Harvey, I am amazed at how all the people who are involved should be congratulated. The first responders, military, hospital workers, power company workers, people who keep stores and gas stations open, maintenance workers, truck drivers, neighbors helping neighbors, and government workers have all responded wonderfully. Churches, Red Read More
Source – insidebigdata.com Lowering energy consumption, looking for new sources of renewable energy and boosting energy efficiency are all integral Big Data goals to protect the environment as well as to sustain economic growth. Big volumes of data in motion are being increasingly monitored and analyzed in real time, which helps in achieving these goals. A Read More
Source – information-age.com While Machine learning has been on the technology agenda now for as long as twenty years, it is only in more recent times that its potential benefits in field service management terms have been more widely understood. Machine learning is an offset of artificial intelligence (AI), whereby AI can learn to do a Read More
Source – nypost.com Robots are coming to steal your reviews. Researchers at the University of Chicago have trained a neural network, or artificial intelligence system, to write fake reviews on Yelp – and it’s pretty hard to tell them apart from a human review. Their study, which will be presented at the ACM Conference on Computer Read More
Source – dataconomy.com Data innovation and technology are a much discussed but rarely successfully implemented in large financial services firms. Despite $480 Billion spent globally in 2016 on financial services IT, the pace of financial innovation from incumbents lags behind FinTech which received a comparatively puny $17 Billion in investment in 2016. What lies behind the discrepancy? We provide a Read More
Source – treehugger.com Apes’ abilities appear to be entirely misunderstood because research has failed to measure them fairly and accurately, according to a new report. I’ve always marveled at how shortsighted humans can be, especially when it comes to other species. We’ve got such a superiority complex that we fail to fully appreciate the remarkableness of Read More
Source – datacenterdynamics.com IT service security has many layers. The IT security layer; firewalls, intrusion detection and access controls. The infrastructure layer; power, network, server health and cooling. And, most important, the people layer. The right people with the right processes, tools and measures to ensure everything else is in working order. Artificial intelligence (AI) will Read More
Source – cio.in Machine learning is gaining popularity to deal with increasingly complex data and analysis problems. Many projections also point that the highest growth is in India IT spending in software and IT services for 2017. This includes building new digital platforms with Machine Learning at the center. IBM continues to be at the forefront Read More
Source – irishtimes.com With the recent explosion in artificial intelligence, there has been the understandable concern about its potential impact on human work. But economic theory suggests that AI will substantially raise the value of human judgment. People who display good judgment will become more valuable, not less. Recent advances in AI are expected to lower the Read More
Source – wired.com MICROSOFT SAID LAST week that it had achieved a new record for the accuracy of software that transcribes speech. Its system missed just one in 20 words on a standard collection of phone call recordings—matching humans given the same challenge. The result is the latest in a string of recent findings that some view Read More
Source – livemint.com British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote in 1962 that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In 2017, Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be that form of “advanced technology” that is seemingly putting magic into shade. But what is this magical form of technology? Simply put, AI is based Read More
Source – securityintelligence.com The chief information security officer (CISO) faces threats such as compromised users, negligent employees and malicious insiders. For this reason, one of the most important tools in the CISO’s arsenal is user behavior analytics (UBA), a solution that scans data from a security information and event management (SIEM) system, correlates it by user and Read More
Source – jaxenter.com DevOps is a way of thinking; it’s an approach, not a specific set of tools. And that’s all well and good – but it only gives you half the picture. If we overstate DevOps as a philosophy or a methodology, then it becomes too easy to forget that the toolchain is everything Read More
Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed an autonomous robot that can keep pace with foot traffic while observing the general social codes that pedestrians follow to avoid oncoming obstacles while keeping up a steady walking pace. In drive tests, the robot, which resembles a knee-high kiosk on wheels, successfully avoided Read More
Source – news.mit.edu Just as drivers observe the rules of the road, most pedestrians follow certain social codes when navigating a hallway or a crowded thoroughfare: Keep to the right, pass on the left, maintain a respectable berth, and be ready to weave or change course to avoid oncoming obstacles while keeping up a steady walking Read More
Source – menafn.com Technavio’s latest market research report on the deep learning market in the US provides an analysis of the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2017-2021. Technavio defines an emerging trend as a factor that has the potential to significantly impact the market and contribute to its growth or decline. Read More