Source: dqindia.com IIT Hyderabad has invited online applications from students for a PhD program in its newly launched Department of Artificial Intelligence. The Department of Artificial Intelligence was launched earlier this year to offer BTech, MTech. and PhD programs, as well as a number of minor programs in artificial intelligence. The IT industry currently requires Read More
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Source: theday.com What happens to artists when they have to answer to online polls? Two decades ago, widespread adoption of the Internet created a seismic shift in artistic industries. Piracy, file-sharing and other freely available content disrupted (and sometimes destroyed) dominant players in music, film and other creative trades. Now, we’re experiencing a sort of Read More
Source: star2.com Providing citizens with good healthcare is one of the greatest challenges facing governments today. Changing population demographics and the prevalence of chronic disease in developing countries are putting tremendous pressure on healthcare systems around the world. In Malaysia, the population over 65 years of age is expected to double to nearly 15% of Read More
Source: asiatimes.com As commentators focus more on China’s burgeoning surveillance system, an excellent opportunity for critical reflection arises. In the past two years, scores of articles in reputable publications describe China’s surveillance capability in Orwellian terms – a dystopian cacophony of cameras, artificial intelligence (AI), facial-recognition software, and constant social monitoring. Labeled the “social credit system,” China’s practice of Read More
Source: finextra.com The migration of the firm’s data to a cloud-based environment will enhance operational efficiencies through greater productivity and business agility, and enhanced service levels. This is part of IGM’s ongoing execution of a previously announced five-year transformation to modernize its digital platforms and technology infrastructure. Adopting Google Cloud will also provide IGM with Read More
Source: simplilearn.com Many people fear that the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any industry is going to eliminate their jobs. In healthcare, for instance, AI is already making a big splash in radiology. That’s deterring many students in medical school from pursuing a career in the field. But rather than eliminating the job of a radiologist, AI is Read More
Source: nbc-2.com FORT MYERS, Fla. – Candidates running for political office in 2020 have the ability to track your phone without your knowledge. Their goal is to target you with ads and text messages to try to drive you to the polls. What many voters don’t realize is campaigns can now draw geo circles around Read More
Source: techspot.com. The big picture: As trade tensions between China and the US continue to make headlines, Apple has found itself in the general conversation once again. Apparently, the company shares some data with a Chinese tech giant, which has led some to believe that it isn’t able to hold up to its high standards for Read More
Source: news.mit.edu When Tracy Slatyer faced a crisis of confidence early in her educational career, Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” and a certain fictional janitor at MIT helped to bolster her resolve. Slatyer was 11 when her family moved from Canberra, Australia, to the island nation of Fiji. It was a three-year stay, Read More
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com BEIJING/HONG KONG – Meituan Dianping , a Chinese online food delivery-to-ticketing firm, has started building a mapping service, aiming to enter an area currently dominated by Alibaba’s AutoNavi and BaiduMaps. A spokeswoman for Meituan told Reuters the company was working on the project, after it advertised more than a dozen positions on job hunting website Lagou.com on Tuesday Read More
Source: newsday.co.tt THE Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has launched an online page to streamline reporting suspicious financial activities for reporting entities and the public as a whole. At the FIU’s conference room at Tower D, International Waterfront Complex, in Port of Spain, on Friday, director Nigel Stoddard said the increase in the need to inform Read More
Source: searchnetworking.techtarget.com Network traffic across the internet, within data centers and in end-user networks has increased rapidly over time and shows no signs of stopping. While 100 Gigabit Ethernet, or GbE, technology has only been available for a few years, a variety of applications already show a need for even higher data rates. Industry experts expect Read More
Source: telemediaonline.co.uk Ranplan Wireless is collaborating with the University of Warwick on a project funded by Innovate UK’s Geospatial Commission to identify wireless blackspots to support the rollout of 5G and help improve urban and rural coverage. The COCKPIT-5G project will use crowd blackspot intelligence sourcing and social media techniques along with sophisticated real-time natural language processing to curate consumer data and build up an accurate connectivity map of the UK. With the start of the 5G rollout in the UK, new cell sites are being planned to address Read More
Source: portnews24.com AMA Research have recently released a comprehensive study of over 150+ pages on ‘Data Mining Software’ market to meet ever-changing industry conditions that marketers must adjust to strategies & leverage the best results for the company. The study not just provides market size break-up by revenue and volume* for potential countries and important Read More
Source: benefitspro.com Few areas of the corporate world are fraught with the conflicting objectives found in employee health. Company health plans are designed to maintain employee health. Healthy employees are more productive. And generous health coverage bolsters recruitment and retention, a key goal in the zero-employment economy. But benefits are also a nagging cost center. Read More
Source: news.iastate.edu AMES, Iowa — A team of Iowa State University graduate students beat nearly 150 teams from 114 universities in 28 countries, bringing home the top prize from the 20th annual Data Mining Cup. The winners were announced July 3 in Berlin. Prudsys AG, a leading European data mining company, sponsors the intelligent-data analysis Read More
Source:- builtin.com At their core, data scientists have a math and statistics background. Out of this math background, they’re creating advanced analytics. On the extreme end of this applied math, they’re creating machine learning models and artificial intelligence. Just like their software engineering counterparts, data scientists will have to interact with the business side. This includes Read More
Source:- metrology.news Big data analytics is the use of advanced analytic techniques against very large, diverse data sets that include structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, from different sources, and in different sizes from terabytes to zettabytes. Big data is a term applied to data sets whose size or type is beyond the ability of traditional relational Read More
Source:- insidebigdata.com As data has transitioned from “nice to have” to a full-blown commodity, we’ve seen demand for data science and analytics (DSA) talent soar — along with opportunities for job-seekers and companies alike. This is such a critical moment for data science, in fact, that industries across the board are bracing for talent shortages. Here’s Read More
Source- bloomberg.com It’s been another year of relentless artificial-intelligence hype and incremental AI achievement. Machines still beat humans only in carefully constructed environments or at narrow tasks. The good news is that, as the technology progresses, the race for leadership is still wide open, and even Europe, where politicians fret that the continent is lagging behind China Read More
Source-analyticsinsight.net Data is definitely priceless. But it is not a cake walk to analyze it as greater things come at a greater cost. With the exponential growth in data, there requires a process to extract meaningful information as conclude to useful insights. Data mining is the process where the discovery of patterns among large sets Read More
Source – forbes.com Forbes Insights research shows that 65% of senior transportation-focused executives believe logistics, supply chain and transportation processes are in the midst of a renaissance—an era of profound transformation. But of the most visible forces of change, perhaps none carries more potential for innovation and even disruption than the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), machine Read More
Source – analyticsindiamag.com This is the time when a strong Computer Science background is highly-recommended for budding Machine Learning practitioners. In fact, students are closing the statistics gap with online programs as well. So is it time Indian universities start offering a major in machine learning? ML jobs are booming in India — recent example being Read More
Source – smh.com.au Australia’s top cyber spy says the world needs to think more about risks created by over-reliance on artificial intelligence so that people don’t “sleepwalk” into dependence on machines they don’t actually understand. In an rare public speech, Mike Burgess, Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate, also said spy agencies around the world – including Read More
Source – propertycasualty360.com In the era of 24-hour news coverage, and in the aftermath of highly publicized catastrophic events including hurricanes, earthquakes and terrorist attacks, insurance policyholders have very little patience for a protracted claims process. At the risk of alienating customers, especially younger policyholders who grew up in a digital age, the insurance industry must adapt Read More
Source – gsmarena.com Among other things, for a smartphone to be bang on trend these days it needs, a tall 18:9 display with minimum bezels (with a notch thrown in for good measure), a superb camera system and Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are buzzwords being adopted and applied throughout our Read More
Source – pcmag.com The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica controversy has triggered Facebook to cancel an advertising tool that pulled data from people’s backgrounds, like whether you own a home or what products you like to buy. “We want to let advertisers know that we will be shutting down Partner Categories,” Facebook said on Wednesday. “This product enables Read More
Source – techcentral.co.za Not much time passes these days between so-called major advancements in artificial intelligence. Yet researchers are not much closer than they were decades ago to the big goal: actually replicating human intelligence. That’s the most surprising revelation by a team of eminent scholars who just released the first in what is meant to be Read More
Source – yourstory.com Data Science may have become hot in this decade, but its existence can be traced back to more than a couple of decades ago. A lot of academic research took place in data science (data mining) then, but there was no application in the market; it was all theoretical and mathematical. Real change came Read More
Source – manitobacooperator.ca An expedition through published and unpublished studies on neonicotinoid pesticides has led a Guelph research team to find no colony-level risk to honeybees from the seed treatments — if they’re correctly used. The University of Guelph team, led by toxicologist Keith Solomon and adjunct professor Gladys Stephenson, analyzed 64 papers from “open, peer-reviewed Read More