Source: edgy.app A team of researchers has developed a predictive touch response mechanism for enhanced human-to-machine Interaction. Experts have predicted that the next phase of IoT could be Tactile Internet. So, humans will be able to interact with a remote or virtual object and experience realistic haptic feedback. Now a team of researchers led by Elaine Wong at the University of Melbourne has brought us Read More
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com The benefits of industry 4.0 have been well reported and the world of work has been revolutionized. Almost every organization operating today actively utilizes, or relies on, technologies that are becoming increasingly advanced. Both industry and society have adopted a data-driven culture in which information drives intelligent decision making and previously unheard-of efficiencies. Read More
Source: dqindia.com Udacity announced the launch of its new Nanodegree program: Intro to Machine Learning with TensorFlow. The next-generation program in machine learning (ML) introduces learners to the fundamentals of Machine Learning in a way that is effective and engaging at the same time. The Nanodegree program incorporates advanced areas such as manipulating data, supervised Read More
Source: bweducation.businessworld.in Digital Vidya collaborates with FutureSkills, the flagship reskilling initiative by NASSCOM, to upskill/reskill the employees of the Indian IT/ITES sector on identified skill gaps in the current talent pool such as Digital Marketing and Big Data Analysis. Organisations are constantly looking for employees to solve problems in technology-rich environments and link their work Read More
Source: financialexpress.com By 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies such as virtual personal assistants and chatbots will replace almost 69 per cent of the manager’s workload, predicts research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. Such technologies are rapidly making headway into the workplace, Gartner said. “The role of manager will see a complete overhaul in Read More
Source: pubs.rsna.org Deep learning with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has shown tremendous success in classifying images, as we have seen with the ImageNet competition (1), which consists of millions of everyday color images, such as animals, vehicles, and natural objects. For example, recent artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved a top-five accuracy (correct answer within Read More
Source: hrtechnologist.com Over a decade ago, the 2002 Oakland A’s challenged traditional baseball methodology by using statistical analysis to build their roster instead of relying solely on outdated recruiter instincts. By using science to guide their decisions, they sold off many of their overvalued, overpriced players and acquired undervalued players with significant potential that ultimately Read More
Source: devops.com Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was the great hope of organizations decades ago when they sought to advance legacy system integration, reduce and bypass layers, and rapidly access the system of record. At the time, the existing solution was point-to-point integration, creating a brittle “spaghetti” middle layer that was hard to manage. This was Read More
Source: finance-commerce.com Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s more profound than fire or electricity,” Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview at the World Economic Forum Read More
Source: eurekalert.org Imagine that you met a charming girl in school. She is an excellent student who concerns about the world welfare and is anti-war and anti-nuclear. Which do you think she is most likely to become in the future, a bank counter clerk, or, a bank counter clerk and feminist? Surveys show that most Read More
Source: techcrunch.com It’s one thing to develop a working machine learning model, it’s another to put it to work in an application. Cortex Labs is an early-stage startup with some open-source tooling designed to help data scientists take that last step. The company’s founders were students at Berkeley when they observed that one of the Read More
Source: biometricupdate.com The EU’s proposed temporary moratorium on biometric facial recognition technology use is being supported by Alphabet and Google CEO Sunder Pichai, who spoke at an event organized by the think tank Bruegel in Brussels, Reuters reports. Nefarious uses of facial recognition and the spread of deepfakes are among the concerns motivating a call for regulation Read More
Source: techxplore.com Data mining and extraction of knowledge from disparate sources is big data, big business. But, how does the search software cope with entities that are mentioned where only part of their name is used or a name is hyphenated when it normally isn’t? Research published in the International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Read More
Source: data-economy.com The move follows strategic cloud services deals that the Indian firm has signed with both IBM and Google in recent times. India-headquartered IT services player HCL Technologies has formed its dedicated HCL Microsoft Business Unit focused on supplying Microsoft cloud technologies, along with those around IoT and artificial intelligence. The Microsoft unit will Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net We usually hear a lot about human-level AI or artificial intelligence but little do we realize that the human mind and AI are actually quite interlinked. The brain’s neural network and artificial neural network possess some similarities between themselves. Both are trained on data, while the brain learns from real-life data and experiences Read More
Source: oilandgasmiddleeast.com Oil and gas assets are increasingly fitted with a multitude of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, causing exponential growth in data. This, in turn, is increasing the need for adoption of data management solutions for improved operational visibility. This approach also helps identify bottlenecks in operations and uncover patterns and relationships across diverse Read More
Source: towardsdatascience.com In the world of data science, one must excel in data creativity, scepticism and communication. Interesting insights from data analysis will have to be shared with senior-level decision makers and key stakeholders in a way that achieves maximum impact. The ability to effectively present and communicate findings — by creating compelling stories — Read More
Source: healthitanalytics.com January 22, 2020 – Machine learning algorithms have the potential to accelerate and refine the drug development process, but the industry should expand data access and create consistent data standards to ensure drug companies can fully leverage these tools, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Drug companies spend ten Read More
Source: mobihealthnews.com A study published in Nature has demonstrated how artificial intelligence (AI) research can drive and accelerate new scientific discoveries. Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind has created a dedicated, interdisciplinary team to explore using AI to predict the 3D structure of a protein based solely on its genetic sequence. Its system, AlphaFold, builds on prior research using large genomic Read More
Source: standard.co.uk Data, data, data. As our lives get evermore entwined into the world of digital, so the importance of data skyrockets: the importance of acquiring it, storing it and – crucially – interpreting it. In fact, last year reports abound that so important is data to us now, it has become a more valuable resource than oil… And Read More
Source: odt.co.nz How similar do you think you are to your second cousin? Or your estranged great aunt? Would you like to have people assess your behaviour from what your great aunt has done? How would you feel if courts used data gained from them to decide how you are likely to behave in the Read More
Source: searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com Microservices should simplify software development. In theory, we can stitch microservices together with a top layer, assembling applications out of components. The promise isn’t new, but it is worth examining. Ivar Jacobson proposed the idea of software components, like circuit-board components, in 1967. He wanted to make building software more like assembling prefabricated Read More
Source: photonics.com A team of U.S. researchers has created a laser-based system able to image around corners in real time. With further development, the system may allow self-driving cars to look around parked cars or busy intersections to see hazards or pedestrians. The technology could also be installed on satellites and spacecraft for tasks such Read More
Source: asianage.com Rishab Bhatt, one of the best names in the computing world, is a software and web developer based in Toronto, Canada. Over the years, he has done a lot of trials and errors, after which he established a website named ‘Simple.Savr’, a text and file-sharing website with more than 60K users per month Read More
Source: europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com In a new report, the joint big data task force of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines Agency (HMA) have proposed ten priority actions for the European medicines regulatory network to evolve its approach to data use and evidence generation, in order to make the best use of big data to support Read More
Source: businesslive.co.za Brussels — Alphabet’s CEO has urged the US and EU to co-ordinate regulatory approaches on artificial intelligence (AI), calling their alignment “critical”. In a rare public speech in Brussels on Monday at an event hosted by European economic think-tank Bruegel, Sundar Pichai, who is also CEO of Google, said “there is no question Read More
Source: bloombergquint.com Google announced a massive shift last week in how it handles cookies, those pesky digital trackers that chase us around the internet and serve up targeted ads that are both creepy yet eerily precise reflections of our wants. The search giant, which just helped Alphabet Inc. surpass a $1 trillion valuation, said it Read More
Source:bdtechtalks.com Two separate studies, one by UK-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind and the other by researchers in Germany and Greece, display the fascinating relations between AI and neuroscience. As most scientists will tell you, we are still decades away from building artificial general intelligence, machines that can solve problems as efficiently as humans. On the path to Read More
Source: novuslight.com Euresys announced the availability of a new Deep Learning library: EasySegment works in unsupervised mode. After being trained with “good” images only, it can detect and segment anomalies and defects in new images. EasySegment works with any image resolution, supports data augmentation and masks, and is compatible with CPU and GPU processing. The new Read More
Source: computerweekly.com Russian telco Rostelecom and state-run banking and financial group VTB are launching a big data platform and will offer it as a service to other organisations. The two companies signed an agreement in November, and the initial investment in the project was set at RUB1bn ($15.7m), split equally. “The new platform will facilitate Read More
