Big Data

Thailand to train 1,000 government officers on big data skills in 2020

Source: techwireasia.com BIG DATA is the fabric of today’s digital society. Understanding, analyzing, and leveraging it can help businesses, as well as regulators, transform operations and deliver better experiences to internal and external stakeholders. In the government and public sector, big data can help solve traffic congestion issues, health and safety issues, and even civic Read More

Big Data

VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT’S BIG DATA SKILLS MAY LEAD TO CLEANER AIR

Source: packtpub.com December 16, 2019 –Radhica Kanniganti works for a startup company in India, home to some of the world’s most-polluted cities. She hopes to improve lives in her work as an environmental engineer for the Bangalore-based company Devic Earth, testing a device that reduces air pollution by employing radio waves. Her job – requiring analyses Read More

Human Intelligence

AI’s future is entirely human-centric

Source: techradar.com One of the most straightforward ways to think about artificial intelligence is to define it as a machine’s ability to understand or perform in a way that would normally need human intelligence.  A lot of what we see called AI in software and cloud services is closer to automation. Automation is based on input and response: an Read More

Machine Learning

Engineers Developing Machine-Learning Tools to Quickly, Cheaply Design Better Solar Cells

Source: labmanager.com Researchers are developing machine learning tools to help them flip the design script and accelerate technology development. They’re not interested in the traditional, incremental, costly way of running experiments, collecting data and applying those answers to technology designs. They want to start with the answer—in this case better solar cells—and use machine learning Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

The Surge of Intelligent, Machine Learning-Powered Cloud Solutions

Source: valuewalk.com This surge in the cloud provider’s revenue speaks at length about the growing interest of companies in cloud technology. And the pace at which the cloud revolution has stormed the industry can no longer be termed as a trend. Instead, has become a long-standing reality that no business – tech or non-tech – Read More

Data Mining

Effective data architecture key to supporting analytics initiatives: Rahul Mehta, CitiusTech

Source: cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com Companies are realising that they can benefit tremendously from data and analytics to drive positive outcomes for themselves as well as customers. For this, organizations need to have a clear vision that focuses on driving efficiency, productivity and profitability. However, there are several challenges associated with data analytics which managers find difficult to handle. Rahul Read More

Data Science

DWP on the hunt for a fraud chief and leading data scientists

Source: diginomica.com The Department for Work and Pensions (DPW) is the UK government’s largest department and supports over 22 million people every day. It is currently hiring for a number of senior digital roles, including two lead data scientists, as well as a deputy director of Fraud, Error and Debt.  DWP has a number of complex technology Read More

Reinforcement Learning

AI Struggles To Master Minecraft Through Imitation Learning

Source: unite.ai Over the past few months, Microsoft and other companies researching machine learning challenged teams of AI developers to create an AI system that could play Minecraft and find a diamond within the game. As reported by the BBC, while AI platforms have managed to dominate chess and go, but it has struggled to master a task Read More

Deep Learning

The growth of deep learning

Source: idgconnect.com Deep learning is overtaking more classic machine learning methods according to a recent study of AI industry leaders across Europe, which included Amazon, Google and JP Morgan. The report, entitled Deep Learning: Opportunities and Best Practice, published by CognitionX and Peltarion, highlighted several factors that are enabling wider uptake, such as increased data Read More

Data Robot

DataRobot is acquiring Paxata to add data prep to machine learning platform

Source: techcrunch.com DataRobot, a company best known for creating automated machine learning models known as AutoML, announced today that it intends to acquire Paxata, a data prep platform startup. The companies did not reveal the purchase price. Paxata  raised a total of $90 million before today’s acquisition, according to the company. Up until now, DataRobot  has concentrated mostly on Read More

Google Cloud AutoML

Google launches AutoML Natural Language with improved text classification and model training

Source: venturebeat.com Earlier this year, Google took the wraps off of AutoML Natural Language, an extension of its Cloud AutoML machine learning platform to the natural language processing domain. After a months-long beta, AutoML today launched in general availability for customers globally, with support for tasks like classification, sentiment analysis, and entity extraction, as well as a Read More

Microservices

Datawire Launches Ambassador API Gateway Platform

Source: containerjournal.com Datawire this week launched Ambassador Edge Stack 1.0, which combines an open source application programming interface (API) gateway optimized for Kubernetes with a Level-7 load balancer, Kubernetes Ingress controllers, monitoring capabilities and a developer portal into a single platform. Company CEO Richard Li says Ambassador Edge Stack 1.0 enables IT organizations to provision these Read More

Big Data

GeoDB democratizing Big Data with Blockchain-based data sharing ecosystem

Source: geospatialworld.net UK: Considering all the talks around the Big Data industry and the growing issues around this market, most of the companies experience inconvenience while integrating various analytical tools. Even now, the majority of big data analytics companies spend more than 80% of their workflow on finding, evaluating, purchasing and formatting the data before the Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

The biggest Microsoft Azure stories of 2019

Source: msdynamicsworld.com We begin our look back at 2019 in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem with the most popular and important stories of the year. Expanding customer adoption, big wins and open-source initiatives Microsoft continued to secure big wins and broker new partnerships across industries in 2019. Perhaps one of the biggest—and most surprising—wins came at Read More

Machine Learning

How manufacturing operations transformation combines machine data with machine learning

Source: capgemini.com Manufacturing enterprises have been focused on the operational transformation pillar which in almost all cases refers to making supply chain and manufacturing operations more efficient by leveraging capabilities arising out of IoT, IIoT, and AI. The visionaries in Manufacturing however have also concentrated on transforming their business models from a sell model to Read More

Artificial Intelligence

A Review of Artificial Intelligence Adoptions in the Media Industry

Source: jou.ufl.edu Artificial intelligence (AI) has been touted by many as the transformational technology of the digital age that one day will power everything. It is being used in practically every industry sector, and the media industry is no exception. To understand how it is being used and potential challenges that might emerge, University of Read More

Uncategorized

Deep Learning breakthrough made by Rice University scientists

Source: arstechnica.com In particular, the more potential inputs you have to an algorithm, the more out of control your scaling problem gets when analyzing its problem space. This is where MACH, a research project authored by Rice University’s Tharun Medini and Anshumali Shrivastava, comes in. MACH is an acronym for Merged Average Classifiers via Hashing, Read More

Big Data

Big Data, 5G and Surgical Robots Are Transforming Healthcare

Source: techbullion.com The immense improvement in the working efficiency of every sector that the advancement in technology has brought with it has benefitted the healthcare sector as well. The introduction of artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data services, and robots helping in the surgery has proven to enhance the workability of the people involved in the health Read More

Google AI

Google’s self-driving car project buys British AI firm Latent Logic

Source: zdnet.com Waymo, Google’s self-driving car sibling company, has acquired the Oxford artificial intelligence company Latent Logic for an undisclosed amount, giving Waymo its first presence in the UK. Latent Logic, a spinout company from Oxford University, specialises in “imitation learning”, teaching machines how to act by showing them examples of humans doing the same actions. It Read More

Data Science

Indeed’s top tech skills trends: JavaScript, containerization, and data science

Source: techrepublic.com Indeed released a new report on Thursday detailing the main tech skills trends in the enterprise. These trends cover multiple facets of the tech landscape including web development, cloud computing, and big data, the report found. Indeed’s Tech Skills Explorer Part 3: Big Picture Tech Skill Trends report analyzed a list of more than 500 Read More

AI-ONE

AI R&D is booming, but general intelligence is still out of reach

Source: theverge.com Trying to get a handle on the progress of artificial intelligence is a daunting task, even for those enmeshed in the AI community. But the latest edition of the AI Index report — an annual rundown of machine learning data points now in its third year — does a good job confirming what you probably Read More

Microservices

Survey Sees Massive Adoption of Microservices

Source: devops.com The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of API management platform provider Kong, polled 200 senior IT leaders in organizations with more than 1,000 employees. Among the results, 89% of technology leaders agree that companies that are not able to effectively support microservices will be less able to compete in the future. The report Read More

Artificial Intelligence

IQ test for artificial intelligence systems

Source: news.wsu.edu Washington State University researchers are creating the first-ever “IQ test” for artificial intelligence (AI) systems that would score systems on how well they learn and adapt to new, unknown environments. Diane Cook, Regents Professor and Huie-Rogers Chair Professor, and Larry Holder, professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received a Read More

Machine Learning

A machine learning approach to identify functional human phosphosites

Source: phys.org Researchers at the EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have created the largest reference phosphoproteome to date of almost 120,000 human phosphosites. To identify those most likely to be critical, they used a machine learning approach capable of ranking them according to functional importance. Proteins are the core molecular machines of the cell that can be Read More

Deep Learning

MRI Detects ADHD With Help of Deep Learning

Source: technologynetworks.com Deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence, can boost the power of MRI in predicting attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. Researchers said the approach could also have applications for other neurological conditions. The human brain is a complex set of networks. Advances in functional Read More

AI-ONE

3 top ASX shares in artificial intelligence

Source: One sector that is expected to boom over the next decade is artificial intelligence. There are many businesses that claim they’re part of AI development, so it’s hard to know which shares will give the clearest exposure to AI and deliver good returns. So, here are a few ideas to think about: BetaShares NASDAQ 100 ETF (ASX: Read More

Data Science

VijayBhoomi University partners with INSOFE to offer courses in Data Science, AI

Source: indiaeducationdiary.in Bangalore: Vijaybhoomi University in the Greater Mumbai region promoted by the 25 year old leading business school in the country, IFIM Business School has established a first of its kind arrangement with INSOFE, a leader in Data Science education and corporate training, to establish an independent professional school for data sciences under the Read More

Big Data

How Microfinance sector can leverage Big Data analytics for financial inclusion

Source: businesstoday.in The rapid enhancement in technology, new players and huge investments coming up in the financial technology, mobile phone penetration are remodelling the financial services vista. With enhanced penetration of mobile devices globally, the opportunity to gain more understanding about consumer behaviour, comprising how they spend their money and time, has also enhanced. They Read More

Data Mining

Law Firms Enter the Golden Age of Data Mining

Souurce: law.com As a matter of practice, law firms generate and store incomprehensible amounts of data. Most, if not all, of that data has been digitized and many firms that recognize the untapped value of their data have begun to leverage sophisticated technologies to mine it for reusable work product and valuable insights. While most Read More

Google AI

Google taps AI to improve news results in Search

Source: venturebeat.com Google says it’s implementing AI and machine learning techniques to improve story suggestions in Google Search. In a blog post this morning, the tech giant announced that users in the U.S. in English (with more languages and locations to come in the next few months) who search for a news topic will now see an Read More