As of March 10, 2020, 467 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. While governments across the globe are working in collaboration with local authorities and health-care providers to track, respond to and prevent the spread of disease caused by the coronavirus, health experts are turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to augment current efforts to prevent further infection. Data and analytics have proved to be useful in combating the spread of disease, and the federal government has access to ample data on the U.S. population's health and travel as well as the migration of both domestic and wild animals -- all of which can be useful in tracking and predicting disease trajectory. Machine learning's ability to consider large amounts of data and offer insights can lead to deeper knowledge about diseases and enable U.S. health and government officials to make better decisions throughout the entire evolution of an outbreak. As the global human population grows and continues to interact with animals, other opportunities for viruses that originate in animals (like COVID-19) could make the jump from to humans and spread.

Following on from my comment in the February issue of DW, I thought it worthwhile to spend a few moments contemplating just how much, or how little, companies (as well as individuals) can learn from the history books. Thankfully, major health scares as per the current coronavirus pandemic, are few and far between. And organisations might do well to spend a little time, after we have weathered the storm, thinking about the future, in terms of the human aspect of their business. Yes, AI and robots are, we hope, immune to illness, but humans are still a vital part of any organisation, and large scale illness is something that might just need a bit more planning for in the future. At least as part of a business continuity/disaster recovery plan, where the emphasis tends to be on the machines, not the humans.

A new industrial revolution is taking place now and AI (AI) is transforming countries economically. The answer to the question of who is ahead and who is behind is determined by the new economic model based on this AI. Dozens of countries, from China to the U.S., from Finland to Kenya, are making significant investments in the area. It should be noted that by 2030, AI studies will generate a gross domestic product (GDP) greater than the current size of the Chinese economy ($15 trillion). From this new economy, China will generate nearly $7 trillion, the U.S. $3.7 trillion, Northern Europe $1.8 trillion, Africa-Oceania $1.2 trillion, the rest of Asia $0.9 trillion and Latin America $0.5 trillion.

With the rapid advances in computing and information technologies, traditional access control models have become inadequate in terms of capturing fine-grained, and expressive security requirements of newly emerging applications. An attribute-based access control (ABAC) model provides a more flexible approach for addressing the authorization needs of complex and dynamic systems. While organizations are interested in employing newer authorization models, migrating to such models pose as a significant challenge. Many large-scale businesses need to grant authorization to their user populations that are potentially distributed across disparate and heterogeneous computing environments. Each of these computing environments may have its own access control model. The manual development of a single policy framework for an entire organization is tedious, costly, and error-prone. In this paper, we present a methodology for automatically learning ABAC policy rules from access logs of a system to simplify the policy development process. The proposed approach employs an unsupervised learning-based algorithm for detecting patterns in access logs and extracting ABAC authorization rules from these patterns. In addition, we present two policy improvement algorithms, including rule pruning and policy refinement algorithms to generate a higher quality mined policy. Finally, we implement a prototype of the proposed approach to demonstrate its feasibility.

Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs), which learn data distributions through adversarial training, have gained special attention owing to their high image reproduction ability. However, one limitation of standard GANs is that they recreate training images faithfully despite image degradation characteristics such as blur, noise, and compression. To remedy this, we address the problem of blur, noise, and compression robust image generation. Our objective is to learn a non-degraded image generator directly from degraded images without prior knowledge of image degradation. The recently proposed noise robust GAN (NR-GAN) already provides a solution to the problem of noise degradation. Therefore, we first focus on blur and compression degradations. We propose blur robust GAN (BR-GAN) and compression robust GAN (CR-GAN), which learn a kernel generator and quality factor generator, respectively, with non-degraded image generators. Owing to the irreversible blur and compression characteristics, adjusting their strengths is non-trivial. Therefore, we incorporate switching architectures that can adapt the strengths in a data-driven manner. Based on BR-GAN, NR-GAN, and CR-GAN, we further propose blur, noise, and compression robust GAN (BNCR-GAN), which unifies these three models into a single model with additionally introduced adaptive consistency losses that suppress the uncertainty caused by the combination. We provide benchmark scores through large-scale comparative studies on CIFAR-10 and a generality analysis on FFHQ dataset.

Centralized state camera surveillance is but one component of a burgeoning practice of personal data collection paired with artificial intelligence (AI). Camera surveillance is not inherently unlawful and has long been used at border-crossings, airports, and other high-security areas. However, recent technological advances have contributed to the spread of a more intrusive form of video surveillance that includes powerful, if imperfect, facial recognition abilities and AI decision making. While the technology offers states the ability to, among other things, identify lost children, identify criminals, and monitor threats, the new capacity also raises significant human rights issues. The use of camera surveillance has grown with leaps in technology, including the introduction of videocassette recorders in the 1970s and the internet in the 1990s.

Curators of Africa's largest business focused Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Data Science community discussing the real world applications & trends driving the AI Economy in Africa. Our audience comprises; CxO decision makers, platform providers, Tier 1 or 2 deployment & service providers, entrepreneurs / investors, educators, government and AI ecosystem builders across Africa.

Yoshua Bengio: Yoshua Bengio OCFRSC (born 1964 in Paris, France) is a Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning.[1][2][3] He was a co-recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work in deep learning.[4] He is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de Montréal and scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA). Geoffrey Hinton: Geoffrey Everest HintonCCFRSFRSC[11] (born 6 December 1947) is an English Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. Since 2013 he divides his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto.

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The importance of area coverage with unmanned vehicles, in other words, traveling an area with an unmanned vehicle such as a robot or a UAV completely or partially with minimum cost, is increasing with the increase in usage of such vehicles today. Area coverage with unmanned vehicles is used today in the exploration of an area with UAVs, sweeping mines with robots, cleaning ground with robots in large shopping malls, mowing lawn in a large area etc. The problem has versions such as area coverage with a single unmanned vehicle, area coverage with multiple unmanned vehicles, on-line area coverage (The map of the area that will be covered is not known before starting the coverage) with unmanned vehicles etc. In addition, the area may have obstacles that the vehicles cannot move over. Naturally, many researches are working on the problem and a lot of researches have been done on the problem until today. Spanning tree coverage is one of the major approaches to the problem. In this approach, at the basic level, the planar area is divided into identical squares according to the range of sight of the vehicle, and centers of these squares are assumed to be vertexes of a graph. The vertexes of this graph are connected with the edges with unit costs and after finding the minimum spanning tree of the graph, the vehicle strolls around the spanning tree. The method we propose suggests a way to cover a non-planar area with unmanned vehicles. The method we propose also takes advantage of the spanning-tree coverage approach, but instead of assigning unit costs to the edges, we assigned a weight to each edge using slopes between vertexes those the edges connect. We have gotten noticeably better results than the results we got when we did not consider the slope between two squares and used the classical spanning tree approach.