Many say that programmatic reached a tipping point in 2015, because for the first time last year, programmatic transactions surpassed non-search digital ad spending. That's an important milestone, but there's still a big gap for marketers who want to automate the ad buying process. The customer journey -- especially for considered purchases -- rarely happens entirely online. Our purchasing habits are not only becoming more digital -- they are becoming more omnichannel. Take the example of buying insurance.

Life would be pretty dull without imagination. In fact, maybe the biggest problem for computers is that they don't have any. That's the belief motivating the founders of Vicarious, an enigmatic AI company backed by some of the most famous and successful names in Silicon Valley. Vicarious is developing a new way of processing data, inspired by the way information seems to flow through the brain. The company's leaders say this gives computers something akin to imagination, which they hope will help make the machines a lot smarter.

Artificial intelligence and robots could deprive 7.35 million people of their jobs by fiscal 2030 if Japan fails at this pivotal time to structurally reform the labor market, the economy ministry said. The estimated job losses were included in the ministry's survey on the impact on labor of the "fourth industrial revolution," said to be driven by AI and big data. If nothing is done to adjust to the changes, employment for all job types, except certain low-wage work, will decrease, and the number of employees will drop by more than 10 percent in fiscal 2030 from fiscal 2015, according to the preliminary calculation. The survey says if structural reforms are implemented, employment opportunities would be created in some sectors, and the number of job losses would shrink to 1.61 million from 7.35 million. The survey results were presented at an April 27 meeting of an expert committee discussing how to respond to the spread of AI, the Internet of Things (IoT) and robots.

We have seen the future, and artificial intelligence takes over. MarI/O, created by gamer Seth Bling, is just the tip of the iceberg. This AI had no idea how to play the game at first, but after some simple parameters were set in the form of "fitness" levels, it was incentivized to continue trying new ideas. You read that right, each level used new ideas, and it remembers what worked, while discarding its mistakes. After 34 steps, using NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies, MarI/O figured out that jumping was the key to complete the stage.

Cisco Systems said in August that sales in Asia were flat in the latest quarter and fell 2% for the fiscal year. A pair of tech companies are on the move following quarterly results, while Fitbit could make a move into mobile payments. Shares of the networking giant are up more than 5% in early trading after beating Wall Street estimates for the third quarter. Cisco reported earnings of 57 cents a share off revenue of 12 billion. Analysts polled by S&P Global Market Intelligence projected earnings of 55 cents.

Google Home makes one heck of a first impression: An adorable little Bluetooth speaker, with a hyper-advanced personal assistant that promises to do things Amazon's Echo can't even dream of. You can even choose the color. On paper, Home seems superior to Echo in so many ways that it doesn't feel like a fair fight. That also may well be true in practice! But the race between Home and Echo may turn out to be a little more complicated than specs.

Pepper the robot participates in a Japanese ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this year. Its manufacturer, SoftBank Robotics, is opening new offices in San Francisco and releasing a development kit for Android programmers. Japan-based SoftBank Robotics announced Wednesday at Google I/O, the company's annual developer's conference, that it is opening a new Pepper-focused outpost in San Francisco and unveiling an Android SDK, or software development kit, in the hopes of enticing programmers to write code for the robot. "Pepper is ultimately an unfinished product, and we just wanted to incentivize developers to expand the ways in which people can engage with a humanoid robot," says Steve Carlin, vice president of SoftBank Robotics Americas, which has an existing office in Boston. Asked if SoftBank will roll out at SDK for iOS developers, Carlin says he wouldn't rule anything out but "for the moment Android is the pervasive language."

The predictive powers of computers will work nicely in cases where reality does not change dramatically. However, it will fail in any case where there are dramatic, unpredictable, changes in the future. The authoritative science journal Nature announced recently that a computer designed by Google's DeepMind defeated a human master in the ancient Chinese board game, "Go." This impressive achievement once again raised the expectations for a predicted future in which computers will have artificial intelligence, with major media outlets worldwide touting this anticipated future. One of the major questions raised in response to DeepMind's achievement is what are the outer limits, if any, of intelligent machines?

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The main objective of this thesis proposal is the exploration of advanced statistical and machine learning techniques for the processing of Big Data in medicine in order to identify novel relevant information for improved understanding of pathophysiological processes. To this aim, the notions of hierarchy and abstraction of deep architectures (i.e., deep learning) will be investigated. The developed techniques will be mainly applied to the research fields in our group which are the neurosciences (study of neurodegeneration and neural development in infants) and cardiology (cardiac function analysis). The project will involve the collaboration with clinical partners. The project will be conducted at the Department of Information & Communication Technologies of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, within the Simbiosys group (https://portal.upf.edu/web/simbiosys).