In Southern California, near TFS U.S. headquarters, TIMS will support the development of telematics car insurance services for Toyota customers, as well as new experiences aimed at more fully satisfying customers by working in unison with dealers and distributors. TIMS will contribute to the development of insurance offerings that benefit consumers-including so-called'pay how you drive' insurance, which encourages safer driving. TIMS plans to conduct analysis of big data, and conduct relevant marketing and promotion of the new services to help offer broader insurance options to users. The aim of establishing the new company is to contribute-from the aspect of automobile insurance-to the achievement of Toyota's vision of a mobile society that is safe, secure and convenient. AD and TFS will invest in the new company through their own subsidiaries in the U.S., while investment on the part of TMC will come from Toyota Connected, Inc. (TC) established in the U.S. in January 2016.

Toyota doesn't just want its cars to drive themselves; it wants them to grab the wheel to stop you from crashing. Toyota's researchers are developing what they call a "guardian angel" system that will automatically take control of a vehicle, or subtly adjust a driver's actions, in order to avert danger. In contrast to other companies working on self-driving vehicles, the Japanese carmaker sees combining machine and human driving as a key step toward full autonomy. "In the same way that antilock braking and emergency braking work, there is a virtual driver that is trying to make sure you don't have an accident by temporarily taking control from you," explains Gill Pratt, CEO of the Toyota Research Institute, a company the carmaker created last year with 1 billion in funding to research automated driving, artificial intelligence, and robotics (see "Toyota's Billion-Dollar Bet"). Pratt announced the guardian-angel effort, as well as plans to create a new TRI facility close to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, during a speech at a conference in San Jose today.

Intel's keynotes can be fun, with robots parading on stage and drones zigzagging around the room. Now Intel's making new hardware to help enthusiasts join the fun by building robots and drones at home. The Robotic Development Kit and Aero Kit provide the necessary hardware and software tools to build robots and drones, respectively. The kits were announced at the ongoing Intel Developer Forum in Shenzhen, China. A major element of the developer boards is the RealSense 3D camera, which will ship with the kits and help the robots and drones navigate and avoid obstacles.

The 2016 winners were as follows: Tom Dietterich, AAAI President, for AAAI 2017 Awards, please Manuela Veloso, AAAI Past President contact Carol Hamilton at hamilton@aaai.org.

WIRE)--DataRPM, the award-winning Cognitive Data Science company that automates Machine Learning to deliver Recommendation & Prediction data products, today announced a partnership with big data analytics company, Tamr, Inc. "We are truly excited about our partnership with Tamr to expand the portfolio of innovative solutions to provide end-to-end data products," said Sundeep Sanghavi, DataRPM Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Data integration quality and prep is a crucial requirement for every big data initiative. Our partnership further meets the expanding needs of our customers and allows them to truly leverage machine learning all the way from data ingestion to strategic business insights." "DataRPM's Cognitive Data Science Platform automates machine learning for Recommendations & Predictions to deliver continuous insights that propel enterprises' growth dramatically, thus redefining data science with scale, speed and repeatability," further explained Sundeep. "With the dramatic explosion in data, compounded by the growing shortage of data scientists, and the need for faster sprint cycles to launch strategic initiatives, the call of the hour is Cognitive Data Science. By automating Machine Learning, greater value from productized data can now be derived through operationalizing its usage within companies' process flows in a continuous manner. "Tamr's machine-driven, human-guided approach to data preparation aligns closely with DataRPM's machine learning automation," said Andy Palmer, Tamr Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "DataRPM's Prediction and Recommendation models need a continuous flow of clean, unified data that Tamr provides.

Taylor Vinters has invested an undisclosed amount in ThoughtRiver, which will be co-located at the firm's offices in Cambridge, London and Singapore, as well as providing testing and other support services. Tim Pullan, Chief Executive of ThoughtRiver, was formerly Taylor Vinters' Head of Technology & Outsourcing in Asia when he founded the company in 2011 and has subsequently been developing the technology business with support from Taylor Vinters. This marks the second such Legal Tech equity investment by Taylor Vinters, as part of its strategy to develop innovative solutions that streamline how legal businesses operate. Four months ago, Taylor Vinters announced its first equity investment into Legal Tech start-up, Pekama - thought to be the first of its kind in the industry – which is a cloud-based lawyer collaboration software. ThoughtRiver's Contract Intelligence software uses artificial intelligence (AI) to scan and interpret information from written contracts used in commercial risk assessments, and produces visualisations of the potential risks and other issues.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg attacked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's extreme stance on refugees and immigrants during a speech on Tuesday, criticizing "fearful voices for building walls and distancing people they view as others." The founder of the social network spoke about Facebook's goal of sharing ideas during his company's annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco, when he said "instead of building walls, we can help build bridges," by welcoming refugees and immigrants. "It takes courage to choose hope over fear," he said. "Whether we are welcoming a refugee fleeing war or an immigrant seeking opportunity." Facebook launched the FWD.us immigration reform lobbying group in 2013, which advocates for legislation that supports a more open worker visa process.

Facebook plans to unveil two projects on Wednesday that promise to improve Internet connectivity for users in cities and urban areas. The two, called Aries and Terragraph, will be detailed at its F8 conference in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday. Together, they represent an extension of Facebook's connectivity efforts that so far have been most closely identified with Aquila, a high-flying drone designed by the company to beam down an Internet signal to remote areas. Getting people online and keeping them connected is key to Facebook's expansion plans. After all, it won't be able to persuade new users to come to its services if the Internet connection isn't reliable.

The marriage of computing power and data is finally bearing fruit in the field of cognitive computing, sometimes called machine learning or, more controversially, artificial intelligence. In its most everyday form, we see it in tools such as Google Translate or Microsoft's Bing Translate, which can translate phrases and documents effortlessly across multiple languages. More futuristically, the promise of self-driving vehicles, which can complete entire road journeys without driver intervention, is already being realised. Yet the biggest revolution in work is happening at some of the most basic levels, such as reading and dissecting legal documents to extract meaning and useful information. The tedious slog of work can be transformed by computers which are able to read and parse legal phrases, and summarise them or enter relevant details into a database or spreadsheet.

The Bible is an unusual book, as it is not only the most controversial but also the best-selling book ever written. Now, a ground-breaking digital analysis has revealed how many writers have penned it. The research and innovative technology behind it stand to teach us about the origins of the Bible itself. "It's well understood that the Bible was not composed in real time but was probably written and edited later," Arie Shaus, a mathematician at Tel Aviv University told Gizmodo. "The question is, when exactly?"