Source: readwrite.com The Coronavirus Pandemic has spurred interest in big data to track the spread of the fast-moving pathogen and to plan disease prevention efforts. But the urgent need to contain the outbreak shouldn’t cloud thinking about big data’s potential to do more harm than good. Here is how big data analytics address COVID-19 concern Read More
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Source: searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com If there’s been one overarching trend in analytics in 2020, it’s been vendors’ efforts to help organizations navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in March when the novel coronavirus started its worldwide spread, analytics software vendors began developing general resources to inform both organizations involved in the fight against the spread of the virus and the Read More
Source: dqindia.com ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’, a saying that has been told for generations. However, in the current scenario, it’s befitting to say it propels innovation too. The current pandemic that the world is facing could be the necessity to make or break industries and economies. Artificial intelligence and the robotics industry could Read More
Source: newswise.com Newswise — Public health efforts depend heavily on predicting how diseases like COVID-19 spread across the globe. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science in collaboration with LexisNexis Risk(R) Solutions, a global data technology and advanced analytics leader, have received a rapid research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a model Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net COVID-19 has swept through the world, bringing disruption with it. It has spread with alarming speed, infecting millions of people. As the health and human toll grows, the economic damage is already evident and represents the largest economic shock the world has experienced in decades. Global Economic Prospects has envisioned a 5.2 percent contraction in global Read More
Source: waterstechnology.com Several factors have converged to force companies to make vital decisions about the future of their operations departments. The most pressing issue is the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Government-enforced shelter-at-home orders worldwide have compelled financial institutions to set up their employees for success in remote environments. The situation no doubt will have long-lasting effects Read More
Source: computerweekly.com Data analytics has rarely been more newsworthy. Throughout the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, governments and bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have produced a stream of statistics and mathematical models. Businesses have run models to test post-lockdown scenarios, planners have looked at traffic flows and public transport journeys, and firms use artificial intelligence (AI) to Read More
Source: itbrief.com.au The global Big Data Analytics (BDA) market will witness double-digit growth in the post-pandemic COVID-19 era, according to new research from Frost & Sullivan. The analyst firm’s new report, Post-pandemic Growth Opportunity Analysis of the Big Data Analytics Market examines what global markets could look like under the scenario of the COVID-19 virus Read More
Source: techexplorist.com A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in collaboration with Ava Robotics and the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB), designed a new robotic system that powerfully disinfects surfaces and neutralizes aerosolized forms of the coronavirus. Using a custom UV-C light fixture, the system can clean a warehouse floor in Read More
Source: techrepublic.com To say 2020 has been an “unconventional” year just might be the understatement of the decade. If your organization does planning on a calendar-year basis, you likely diligently crafted a technology strategy for the year in the waning days of 2019, and then promptly threw it out the window in March as the Read More
Source: itnews.com.au NSW Health Pathology relied on its investment in API-led connectivity over the past four years to rapidly build out “world-class” public facing services in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Enterprise architect Tim Eckersley told the MuleSoft CONNECT digital summit last week the agency was able to move with speed in the early stages Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net When considering beginning your AI project, you’re likely inclined to have a blend of excitement and concern. Stunning, this can be astonishing. All the examples of success stories, the number of sales grow, income development etc. In any case, on the other hand, imagine a scenario where it turns out badly. How might Read More
Source: iotbusinessnews.com Lenovo has assembled an ecosystem of IoT solutions to help make it easier for customers to get back to work in offices without dealing with the hassle traditionally encountered in IoT projects. To that extent, Lenovo validates, deploys, and manages these end-to-end solutions globally in a set of turnkey offerings, especially important for large businesses Read More
Source: zdnet.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to make the human race smarter. Raymond Kurzweil has made predicting the Singularity — when artificial intelligence exceeds human intelligence — a cottage industry. Is AI going to make us all smarter, or are we already as smart as we can handle? REPETITIVE STUPIDITY SYNDROME Some of our issues are cognitive, Read More
Source: therecordnewspaper.org RICHMOND, Va. — While the coronavirus pandemic closed schools throughout the country, students at a Virginia Catholic school have turned to manufacturing personal protective equipment for health care workers. Using 3D printers, middle school students at St. Bridget School in Richmond, guided by their robotics teachers, produced much-needed equipment to make the job Read More
Source: sloanreview.mit.edu The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic negative impact on economies in the U.S. and worldwide, and unemployment rates are soaring. Given the economic disruptions, it seems likely that many countries in the global economy will experience a recession. Organizations are beginning to grapple with how the economic slowdown will influence Read More
Source: deccanherald.com With glowing blue eyes and trusting feline features, a new robot cat by Chinese startup Elephant Robotics seems happily oblivious to the worries of CEO Joey Song as he shows it off at the company’s lab in Shenzhen. Elephant Robotics’ main business is the automation of factory assembly lines but revenue has plunged Read More
Source: calvinayre.com Operators have had to adapt to these changing times, but so too have their affiliates. Some verticals are growing rapidly, while others have temporarily shrunken into a fraction of what they once were. Jonathan Edelshaim, General Manager at Natural Intelligence, joined our Becky Liggero Fontana to discuss how affiliates are managing in these COVID Read More
Source: clinicalomics.com The Mount Sinai Health System has received an award from Microsoft AI for Health to support the work of a new data science center dedicated to COVID-19 research. The Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center (MSCIC) brings together leaders from entities across Mount Sinai, including the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health, the Department Read More
Source: iothub.com.au Australian businesses should urgently prioritise development of Internet of Things (IoT) skills to maintain its international competitiveness, according to IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA). The industry body has stepped up its efforts to address the issue by launching the IoT Australia Skills Barometer survey. Created with La Trobe University, the survey will inform educators about important Read More
Source: computerweekly.com NHSX reported it had enleagued Microsoft, Palantir and Google to build a datastore specific to the Covid-19 crisis response at the end of March. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was also said, at the time, to be about to become a participant in the data analytics programme, and has become one since. Civil liberties organisations Privacy Read More
Source: urgentcomm.com As the supply chain and manufacturing wade through the COVID-19 crisis, companies have renewed their embrace of robotics — if with circumspection. Prior to the advent of COVID-19, manufacturing suffered from tight labor markets and eyed robotics and automation to bolster efficiency and reduce costs. According to the MHI report on the supply chain in 2020, Read More
Source: cxotoday.com In the fight against COVID-19, technology innovations are steadily making a difference to healthcare systems. The pace of innovation in Internet of Things (IoT) systems, in particular, to track infections, people movement, detect potential carriers, and remotely monitor health conditions are now being used and developed all over the world. However, the use Read More
Source: healtheuropa.eu Using data from China and New York, the new mobile app, which has been developed by researchers NYU College of Dentistry, works to help clinicians identify which COVID-19 patients are most at risk of suffering a high severity of the disease. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to help the clinicians assess the risk factors and Read More
Source: bweducation.businessworld.in We have been stumped by Nature, with a pandemic the likes of which have not been witnessed since the Spanish flu. That, however, was about a hundred years ago; today we are living in a digital world with technology that can help us in ways that must have been unimaginable to our predecessors. Read More
Source: itproportal.com Big Data has been touted as a potential panacea to the global pandemic, Covid-19. But the technology needs to evolve to meet the demands of this crisis. Big data is unstructured, arriving in tremendous volume, variety and velocity from a variety of heterogeneous and inconsistent sources. And while extract transform load (ETL) processes Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Most of the manufacturers said COVID-19 will affect their operations, as per an ongoing study by PwC. Over 40% were worried about the consequences for their workforce and a reduction in efficiency. Many are currently looking to robotics technology to augment locked down employees, bolster health and security measures, and, now and again, Read More
Source: futureiot.tech While Internet of Things (IoT) will be integral to the long-term recovery plans of the post-COVID-19 economy worldwide, ABI Research said some facets of the IoT itself will be negatively impacted in the short term. In its latest report “Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on the IoT Market”, the technology research firm predicts an 18% Read More
Source: jaxenter.com AI is developing at whirlwind rates. While nobody can say for certain how it will impact our work and personal lives, we can make a good few educated guesses. Also, with COVID-19 limiting human interaction in the built environment, advancements in AI and automation are on course to accelerate (providing funding is available, Read More
Source: beckershospitalreview.com The increased sharing of patient data as hospitals and health systems research COVID-19 and seek new revenue streams as businesses seek “mining rights” to that data has raised patient privacy concerns. In a May 28 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine clinicians and researchers Read More