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IT services, tech startups put India on route to AI: ETILC

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By Jayadipta Chatterji Mehta A strong tech startup story and IT prowess give India an edge over others in artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. In the second part of our series on AI, members of The Economic Times India Leadership Council, ETILC's core group on technology weigh in on India's advantages as a market leader in IT services. "We believe India has a major advantage over other countries due to its vibrant tech-related startup ecosystem, strong IT services, and an offshoring industry, to harness the power of AI," they say. The members include Kaushal Sarda, CEO, Kuliza Technologies; Dilipkumar Khandelwal, MD, executive VP, SAP Labs India; Anil Valluri, President, India and SAARC, NetApp; AS Rajgopal, MD, NextGen; Piyush Sinha, deputy MD, NEC Technologies; Anuj Gupta, CEO, Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic, and Vikas Gupta, CEO and CTO, GreyMatter Software Services. For artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to run on big data, Indian companies require technology that will digitise and store data.


Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young - Noam Chomsky

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Chomsky has been known to vigorously defend and debate his views and opinions, in philosophy, linguistics, and politics. He has had notable debates with Jean Piaget, Michel Foucault, William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Hitchens, George Lakoff, Richard Perle, Hilary Putnam, Willard Quine, and Alan Dershowitz, to name a few. In response to his speaking style being criticized as boring, Chomsky said that "I'm a boring speaker and I like it that way.... I doubt that people are attracted to whatever the persona is.... People are interested in the issues, and they're interested in the issues because they are important."


Deep Learning System Market Outlook 2019: Business Overview And Top Company Analysis Forecast By 2028 - My Industry Planning

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It also provides rigorous Deep Learning System study on the market spike, categorization, and revenue evaluation. This report provides market position from the reader's viewpoint, providing certain Deep Learning System market statistics and business hunch. The global Deep Learning System market serves past and futuristic information about the industry. It also contains company profiles of every Deep Learning System market player, scope, profit, product specification, cost, and so on. Major market vendors comprise in the Worldwide Deep Learning System market research report: Alphabet Inc., Berkeley Vision and Learning Center (BVLC), Facebook, Inc., LISA lab, Microsoft, Nervana Systems, General Vision Inc., Sensory, Inc., Nvidia Corporation, Skymind The geological regions included in the Deep Learning System report: Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, The Middle East, North America and Latin America.


The 5G report card: Building today's smart IoT ecosystem

Robohub

Almost every presentation began apologetically with the refrain, "In a 5G world" practically challenging the industry's rollout goals. At one point Brigitte Daniel-Corbin, IoT Strategist with Wilco Electronic Systems, sensed the need to reassure the audience by exclaiming, 'its not a matter of if, but when 5G will happen!' Frontier Tech pundits too often prematurely predict hyperbolic adoption cycles, falling into the trap of most soothsaying visions. The IoTC Summit's ability to pull back the curtain left its audience empowered with a sober roadmap forward that will ultimately drive greater innovation and profit. The industry frustration is understandable as China announced earlier this month that 5G is now commercially available in 50 cities, including: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.


US military says Russian air defenses shot down unarmed drone near Libyan capital: report

FOX News

Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 7 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com The U.S. military believes the unarmed drone that went missing over the Libyan capital last month was actually shot down by Russian air defenses. The U.S. Africa Command is demanding the return of the aircraft's wreckage, which had been part of an operation conducted in Libya to assess the area's security and monitor for violent extremist activity. The command didn't give a reason for the drone loss after the Nov. 21 incident, but they had been investigating, Reuters reported.


Sharing best practice and landmark evidence in glaucoma care

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Evolving technology, best practice and landmark evidence in glaucoma care were reviewed by an international expert faculty in session presentations and debates during the 11th Moorfields International Glaucoma Symposium 2019. The authors were meeting chairs and provide an overview of symposium proceedings. Hans Lemij, Rotterdam Eye Hospital, the Netherlands, discussed glaucoma optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and automated segmentation issues, noting several common image artefacts. Paul Foster highlighted research by the UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium related to cognitive function and the expanding use of OCT imaging in dementia and neurodegeneration research. Findings show that a thinner retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) is associated with worse cognitive function in individuals without known neurodegenerative disease, as well as a greater likelihood of future cognitive decline [1]. The Rotterdam Study also revealed an association of retinal neurodegeneration on OCT with an increased risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease [2].


GIJN's Data Journalism Top 10: Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Oceans, Bar Chart Races, EU Polling - Global Investigative Journalism Network

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Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from November 25 to December 1 finds The New York Times profiling Bellingcat and its use of OSINT techniques; the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Stanford University collaborating to employ artificial intelligence to solve a journalistic problem; and the Science Communication Lab creating a beautiful interactive scientific poster to explore the world's oceans. Open source journalism might just be the best antidote to spin: the transparency of its authors showing their work during each step of the investigative process helps earn readers' trust. The New York Times profiles Bellingcat, an investigative news site that uses open source techniques. The collaborative Implant Files investigation exposed the lax regulation of the $400 billion medical device industry worldwide. But when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists wanted to know if women suffered disproportionately from faulty medical devices, it hit a data roadblock. The journalists then turned to artificial intelligence to help their reporting.


Infographic: Chinese Surveillance Technology Spreads Around the World

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A large share of countries around the world are now using Chinese AI surveillance technology, including facial recognition technology, in full or in part. This is according to a report by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Many countries are combining Chinese tech with U.S.-made surveillance tech, among them the U.S. and China themselves, but also India, Australia, Brazil and several European countries. Many countries in Latin America, South-East Asia, Africa and the Middle East are relying on Chinese technology alone after participating in the Belt and Road initiative, as is Japan, the only developed country to do so. China is not only a prominent user of AI-powered surveillance and facial recognition but also a big producer and exporter of the technology.


AI In Gaming 2020 speaker interview: Andrew Pearson, Founder and MD, Intelligencia Limited - CalvinAyre.com

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Consistent in their quest to spearhead innovative, groundbreaking events, Eventus International is hosting the first ever AI In Gaming 2020 summit in Dubai on 26 and 27 February at Crowne Plaza Dubai. Joining a lineup of top international industry experts, is Andrew Pearson, founder and MD of Intelligencia Limited, who will be speaking at AI In Gaming 2020. Andrew Pearson was born in Pakistan, grew up in Singapore and was educated in England and America. With a degree in psychology from UCLA, Pearson has had a varied career in IT, marketing, mobile technology, social media and entertainment.In 2011, Pearson relocated to Hong Kong to open Qualex Asia Limited, bringing its parent company's experience into the ASEAN region. Pearson is the Managing Director of Intelligencia Limited, a leading implementer of BI, CI, data warehousing, data modeling, predictive analytics, data visualisation, digital marketing, mobile, social media and cloud solutions for the gaming, finance, telco, hospitality and retail industries.


Detecting Cyberattacks in Industrial Control Systems Using Online Learning Algorithms

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Industrial control systems are critical to the operation of industrial facilities, especially for critical infrastructures, such as refineries, power gri ds, and transportation systems. Similar to other information systems, a significant threat to indust rial control systems is the attack from cyberspace--the offensive maneuvers launched by "anon ymous" in the digital world that target computer-based assets with the goal of compromising a system's functions or probing for information. Owing to the importance of industrial control systems, and the possibly devastating consequences of being attacked, significant endeavors have been attempted to secure industrial control systems from cyberattacks. Among them are intrusio n detection systems that serve as the first line of defense by monitoring and reporting potenti ally malicious activities. Classical machine-learning-based intrusion detection methods usua lly generate prediction models by learning modest-sized training samples all at once. Such approac h is not always applicable to industrial control systems, as industrial control systems must proces s continuous control commands with limited computational resources in a nonstop way. To satisf y such requirements, we propose using online learning to learn prediction models from the control ling data stream. W e introduce several state-of-the-art online learning algorithms categorical ly, and illustrate their efficacies on two typically used testbeds--power system and gas pipeline. Fur ther, we explore a new cost-sensitive online learning algorithm to solve the class-imbalance pro blem that is pervasive in industrial intrusion detection systems. Our experimental results ind icate that the proposed algorithm can achieve an overall improvement in the detection rate of cybe rattacks in industrial control systems. Modern industrial control systems are microprocessor-equ ipped devices and associated communication networks used to monitor and operate physica l equipment in the industrial environment.