In their session at @ThingsExpo, Ikuo Nakagawa, Principal at Intec, Inc., and Shin Shibata, Solution Architect at Landis Gyr, will survey leading-edge business cases of Landis based on IoT / BigData technologies, and describe innovative viewpoints for digital innovations. They will also introduce the Transparent Cloud (t-cloud) Computing Consortium and discuss the emerging service architecture for IoT and Big Data. Speaker Bios Ikuo Nakagawa is a co-founder and a board member of Transparent Cloud Computing Consortium. He is also principal & the Executive Chief Engineer at Intec, Inc. He has launched and been contributing to many open projects for IoT business.

David Kline is a journalist, author and intellectual property strategist. With every new trend comes a counter-trend. And so despite the current excitement over the wonders of artificial intelligence, one company is betting that human intelligence can still deliver solutions for businesses that AI cannot hope to match. Article One Partners (AOP) is a crowdsourced network of over 42,000 researchers in 170 countries -- 42% of whom have graduate degrees in a variety of science, technology, and engineering specialties. The firm got its start uncovering patent-busting prior art for defendants in high-stakes patent infringement suits, where it quickly earned a reputation for finding invalidating prior art in hidden corners of the globe that Google search could never reach -- an unpublished Korean-language PhD dissertation, a rural Norwegian library, even in a New York City pawn shop.

Pop quiz: Who invented the Hoverboard? Of course the original concept was first documented in the "Back to the Future" movie trilogy, but as for the wheeled device that popped up all over malls and city streets in 2015, the answer is fairly complicated. In fact, despite being the No. 1 selling toy in that year's holiday season, it's difficult to name even a single company that manufactured the product. The toy was in fact invented in Shenzhen, China's engineering and manufacturing hub that accounts for nearly 1 million jobs and a disproportionate amount of China's GDP. They all work together to improve on the product, and then they all go back to their respective companies and all make the product.

Next year's gadgets, at least beyond the second quarter, won't want to be caught dead without the killer fashion accessory of 2018: an AI chip. Competition for AI chips is so intense globally that we will be able to see AI chip-equipped smartphones in the second half of next year. Samsung will reportedly begin manufacturing AI chips soon with hopes for commercialization within a matter of years. If this turns out to be accurate, the South Korean company will join the likes of Huawei, Apple, and Microsoft in making AI processors designed to be implemented in consumer gadgets. While rumors abound that Samsung's next big announcement is going to be a foldable smartphone, it seems more likely that we'll see an AI chip in the next Galaxy.

With a whirling buzz from 18 rotors, the pilot-less helicopter gently lifted off the ground and soared up into the afternoon sky, the spire of the world's tallest building visible behind it. The recent unmanned flight by the German-made electric Volocopter represents the latest step in Dubai's pursuit of flying taxis. Dubai already has invested in another model of a flying, autonomous taxi, and is working to design regulations for their use. Putting more passengers in the air could free its already clogged highways and burnish the city's cutting-edge image of itself. "It's public transportation for everybody, so you can use, you can order it, you can pay for the trip and the trip is not much more expensive than with a car," said Alexander Zosel, Volocopter's co-founder. "If you build roads, you build bridges, it's a huge amount and it's always much more cheaper to have a system where you don't need that infrastructure."

Meet Todai Robot, an AI project that performed in the top 20 percent of students on the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo -- without actually understanding a thing. While it's not matriculating anytime soon, Todai Robot's success raises alarming questions for the future of human education. How can we help kids learn the things that humans can do better than AI? The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more.

For Zhao Changlin, an oncologist at a hospital in Guangzhou city, China, life is full of challenges. One of his patients, a woman with late-stage breast cancer, recently begged him to stop her chemotherapy, saying she could no longer bear the pain. Zhao knows only too well the torment the woman is going through – seeing people in pain is an unfortunate but everyday part of his job. He also knows that giving up the treatment could be fatal. "She is only 54 years old. If she continues the treatment, she may have another 20 years in front of her," Zhao said.

What comes through strongly from all the analysis we've carried out for this report is just how big a game changer AI is likely to be, and how much value potential is up for grabs. AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion1 to the global economy in 2030, more than the current output of China and India combined. Of this, $6.6 trillion is likely to come from increased productivity and $9.1 trillion is likely to come from consumption-side effects. While some markets, sectors and individual businesses are more advanced than others, AI is still at a very early stage of development overall. From a macroeconomic point of view, there are therefore opportunities for emerging markets to leapfrog more developed counterparts.

Artifical intelligence is set to transform the marketing and communications world even more than social media has, according to 55% of CMOs surveyed by Weber Shandwick across five markets. The agency's latest study examines current consumer knowledge and attitudes toward AI in the US, UK, Brazil, China and Canada. Of the 150 senior executives surveyed, 68% said their brand is currently selling, using or planning for business in the AI era. Moreover, nearly six in 10 believe that within the next five years, companies will need to compete in the AI space to succeed. Weber Shandwick also polled 2,100 consumers across the five markets, and found that Chinese consumers (31%) report having the strongest knowledge of AI, while UK consumers report the weakest (10%).

At first glance it seems like any other city, with five lane roads, intersections, buildings and even pedestrians waving as you pass. However, M City, in Ann Arbor, is missing one thing - people. The entire 32 acre town has been to allow self driving car makers to test their vehicles in conditions as close as possible to the real world. The $6.5 million facility has 40 building facades, angled intersections, a traffic circle, a bridge, a tunnel, gravel roads, and plenty of obstructed views The $6.5 million facility has 40 building facades, angled intersections, a traffic circle, a bridge, a tunnel, gravel roads, and plenty of obstructed views. Occupying 32 acres at the University's North Campus Research Complex, it includes approximately five lane-miles of roads with intersections, traffic signs and signals, sidewalks, benches, simulated buildings, street lights, and obstacles such as construction barriers.