As commerce and society feel the impact of digitization, automation proliferates along assembly lines and deployment of robotics gathers pace, an influential U.K. academic at the operating helm of the country's engineering academy says the time has come to ditch old clichés and have an apolitical holistic dialogue about future engineering skills. Meet Dr Hayaatun Sillem, Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering, who reckons such broader changes make it a "very interesting time" for engineers with the so-called Industry 4.0 or the next industrial revolution now firmly among us. "People should look at the ongoing transformation from a prism of not how many jobs will go, but rather at the changing nature and scope of roles and tasks. We should be optimistic that there would be many new jobs created partly through the fact that technology would enable us to do things we could not previously do." Dr Hayaatun Sillem, Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering, says the broader societal changes we are witnessing make it a "very interesting time" for engineers.Calum McCarron Looking at the size of the opportunity in a global context, engineers are not only among those feeling the first effects of Industry 4.0 but also the drivers of the shift towards a technologically astute low carbon economy, she adds.

Modern consumers and modern government constituents are the same people. When they order something from Amazon or do their online banking, they increasingly expect those experiences to meet a higher standard of quality than they once did. The same holds true for their interactions with their local governments. In their eyes, if private companies offer advanced technology and convenient features, then logically, public institutions ought to do the same. Unfortunately, few city councils have anything that approaches the same budget as Amazon.

LONDON – Britain's data regulator will fine Facebook half a million pounds ($660,000) for failing to protect users' data, in an inquiry into whether personal information had been misused by campaigns on both sides of Britain's 2016 EU referendum. An investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has focused on the social media giant since earlier this year, when evidence emerged that an app had been used to harvest the data of tens of millions of Facebook users worldwide. In a progress report early Wednesday the watchdog said it plans to issue Facebook with the maximum fine available to it for breaches of the Data Protection Act. "The ICO's investigation concluded that Facebook contravened the law by failing to safeguard people's information," it said, adding that the company had "failed to be transparent about how people's data was harvested by others." Facebook has admitted that up to 87 million users may have had their data hijacked by British consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, which was working for U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

The API provides pre-trained object detection models that have been trained on the COCO dataset. COCO dataset is a set of 90 commonly found objects. See image below of objects that are part of COCO dataset. In this case we care about classes -- persons and soccer ball which are both part of COCO dataset. The API also has a big set of models it supports. See table below for reference. The models have a trade off between speed and accuracy. Since I was interested in real time analysis, I chose SSDLite mobilenet v2. Once we identify the players using the object detection API, to predict which team they are in we can use OpenCV which is powerful library for image processing.

You've seen the ways AI has been leveraged in recent years: Tesla has self-driving cars, chatbots answer customer service queries, and Siri can send a text for you or set a reminder. In 2018 we're likely to see AI permeate our daily lives in much more real ways. Everything from the way we make purchases to the way we create content is likely to see a significant transformation. Here are five artificial intelligence advancements that will work their way further into your life in 2018. Sure, you can already unlock the latest iPhones and confirm some payments with your face.

Giannandrea joined Apple in April after eight years at Google where he led Machine Intelligence, Research, and Search teams. Prior to Google, he founded Metaweb Technologies (acquired by Google in 2010) and Tellme. He studied at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, where he earned a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Computer Science.

A team of researchers, scientists and engineers from France have created a 3D printed house in just a matter of hours. For the first time ever, the four-bedroom house will serve as a permanent home for a family of five. The 1,022-square-foot house, located in the northwestern French city of Nantes, only took about two days - or 54 hours - to complete. A team of researchers, scientists and engineers from France have created a 3D printed house in just a matter of hours. Developers share promo for VR tour of Queen Nefertari's tomb Queen'stumbles' on stairs as she leaves Westminster Abbey service Piers Morgan accuses Sadiq Khan of'hypocrisy' over Trump blimp A team of researchers, scientists and architects designed a 3D printed house in Nantes, France.

The Mark Foundation Institute for Integrated Cancer Medicine will be funded by an £8.6 million award to the University of Cambridge from The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research – the first time that the New York-based philanthropic organisation has made an award to a UK institution. The virtual institute aims to exploit recent advances in big data processing and machine learning to capture and integrate clinical, genomic, and image data collated from hundreds of cancer patients in real-time. Laboratory and clinic-based researchers and data experts will work together to determine whether sophisticated computational integration of all these diverse data types into a single platform can inform and predict the best treatment decisions for each individual patient. Blood tests, biopsies, medical imaging, and genetic tests are a routine part of current cancer care; however, it is not always clear which of these increasingly large datasets are most important in guiding treatment at specific points in the patient journey. "Doctors have long dreamed of an objective system that can integrate all the results generated from their cancer patients, guiding comprehensive treatment decisions both for current treatment and to predict how a particular disease will behave in the future," explains Professor Richard Gilbertson, Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre where the new institute will be based.

A new approach to operating a building's cooling system using machine learning techniques and Internet of Things (IoT) data can help to drive down energy consumption and costs, as the global demand for energy increases. The buildings sector is one of the largest energy-consuming entities, accounting for a staggering 40 percent of global energy consumption today1. What makes this statistic grim is that building energy consumption is projected to increase by 50 percent by 2050, unless energy efficiency strategies are actively embraced to curb the growth. To put this in perspective, the 50 percent increase is equivalent to the combined energy consumption of Russia and India today2. Global pressure for improving environmental sustainability, combined with increasing electricity prices across several nations worldwide, are pushing corporations to reduce the energy consumption incurred in operating their buildings.

Babylon Healthcare Services Ltd., the fast-growing mobile medical consultation service, said its artificial intelligence software, in tests, can assess common conditions more accurately than human doctors. London-based Babylon said Wednesday its AI correctly answered 81 percent of diagnostic questions designed to mimic those trainee doctors must answer as part of the Royal College of General Practitioner's exam that must be passed to become a qualified GP doctor in the U.K. The exam is graded on a curve, but over the...