When patients go to the hospital to get treated for an illness, sometimes they end up far more sick than they were when they entered. In an effort to improve hospital hygiene standards and reduce the incidence of these infections, researchers have developed an AI camera-tracking system that automatically identifies when staffers and patients use hand sanitizer dispensers. The proposed vision-based smart hospital. The Yellow polygons indicate areas covered by the sensors. Researchers based at Stanford University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne conducted a trial of their system using depth cameras and computer-vision algorithms.

Over 100 marketing leaders from the most prominent retail brands in the world weighed in on consumer engagement strategies in the 2017 study, "Building Lasting Consumer Relationships in Retail," released by Persado and WBR Digital. The survey was conducted via in-depth interviews with CMOs and other marketing leadership at US- and UK-based major retailers including Best Buy, Marks and Spencer, Williams-Sonoma, Urban Outfitters, and Nordstrom, amongst many others. The survey reveals that despite retailers' efforts to provide relevant content and experiences, they continue to fall short on the personalization front. How these companies are personalizing might be standing in the way of better communication. According to the study, marketers are overly relying on demographic and geographic data, while significantly underutilizing behavioral data, lifecycle stages, and psychographic indicators like emotional triggers.

Grim news – Silicon Valley is coming to the UK. Google is planning to build a gigantic £600m "landscraper" in King's Cross, central London. It plans to "bring our London Googlers together" with a 25-metre swimming pool, massage rooms, a basketball court, nap pods and a 200-metre "trim trail", which loops around a rooftop meadow, to encourage "the Google culture of walking meetings", as the Guardian's architecture and design critic, Olly Wainwright, put it. This is where I begin to feel queasy. Google has its own "culture", which its 7,000 London employees will presumably have to embrace cheerily while they work, jog, snooze, eat, play and eventually live on this monster "campus".

According to the new market research report "Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Market by Offering (Hardware, and Software), Technology (Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Context Awareness, and Natural Language Processing), Application, Industry, and Geography - Global Forecast to 2023", published by MarketsandMarkets, the artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing market is expected to grow from USD 272.5 Million in 2016 to USD 4,882.9 The growing usage big data technology, Industrial IoT in manufacturing, extensive usage of robotics in manufacturing, computer vision technology in manufacturing, cross-industry partnerships and collaborations, and significant increase in venture capital investments would propel the growth of the AI in manufacturing market. Browse 61 Market Data Tables and 58 Figures spread through 189 Pages and in-depth TOC on "Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Market - Global Forecast to 2023" In recent years, major software vendors such as IBM Corporation (US), Microsoft Corporation (US), and Alphabet Inc. (US) have started offering cognitive applications and cognitive software platforms. Moreover, many start-ups such as DataRPM (US), Clearpath Robotics Inc. (Canada), Sight Machine (US), Preferred Networks Inc. (Japan), SkyMind Inc. (US), Kespry Inc. (US), and AIBrain, Inc. (US) are bringing intelligent software solutions in manufacturing. The booming venture capital market for AI software-based start-ups and usage of big data technology are driving the growth of the AI in manufacturing market for the software segment.

The Aim of the Conference The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world who deal with machine learning and data mining in order to discuss the recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic research papers as well as application papers are welcome. Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the following topics: association rules case-based reasoning and learning classification and interpretation of images, text, video conceptional learning and clustering Goodness measures and evaluaion (e.g. Long Paper The paper must be formatted in the Springer LNCS format. They should have at most 15 pages.

The Hugo Awards, widely considered the most prestigious science fiction and fantasy prizes, were announced Friday, with female authors dominating and N.K. Jemisin winning the award for novel for the second year in a row. Jemisin, who became the first black author to win the Hugo's novel award last year (for "The Fifth Season"), won again with the book's sequel, "The Obelisk Gate." The third and final book in Jemisin's trilogy, "The Stone Sky," will be released Tuesday. The awards were announced at a ceremony at Worldcon 75, a science fiction festival held this year in Helsinki, Finland. Female authors also took home the awards for novella ("Every Heart a Doorway" by Seanan McGuire), novelette ("The Tomato Thief" by Ursula Vernon) and short story ("Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar).

LG is gearing up for the debut of its V30 phablet a couple of weeks from now, so to fuel more attention toward the new handset it has revealed some of the phone's features this week. The Galaxy Note 8 rival is said to come with new security features and a new user interface that takes advantage of its FullVision display. On Monday, LG published an news update about the V30 on its online Newsroom, discussing mainly the personalization options of the device. Mentioned in the post is the customizations the Voice Recognition feature has. Apparently, LG is introducing a new technology that would allow users to unlock the handset without pressing a button or touching the device.

Dan Hunter is a prison guard's worst nightmare. But he's not a hardened crim. As dean of Swinburne University's Law School, he's working to have most wardens replaced by a system of advanced artificial intelligence connected to a network of high-tech sensors. Called the Technological Incarceration Project, the idea is to make not so much an internet of things as an internet of incarceration. Professor Hunter's team is researching an advanced form of home detention, using artificial intelligence, machine-learning algorithms and lightweight electronic sensors to monitor convicted offenders on a 24-hour basis.

Grim news – Silicon Valley is coming to the UK. Google is planning to build a gigantic £600m "landscraper" in King's Cross, central London. It plans to "bring our London Googlers together" with a 25-metre swimming pool, massage rooms, a basketball court, nap pods and a 200-metre "trim trail", which loops around a rooftop meadow, to encourage "the Google culture of walking meetings", as the Guardian's architecture and design critic, Oliver Wainwright, put it. This is where I begin to feel queasy. Google has its own "culture", which its 7,000 London employees will presumably have to embrace cheerily while they work, jog, snooze, eat, play and eventually live on this monster "campus".

Ok, it might not sound as glamorous as the Summer of Love or Bryan Adams' Summer of '69, but it's just as seminal - if not more so. Over the past couple of years we've seen a trend where technologies previously reserved for the elite or big tech giants have been opened up to mass consumption. We saw this last summer, when the launch of Pokémon Go and the game's meteoric rise - amassing 10 million downloads in its first week - brought Augmented Reality (AR) into the mainstream. A year on, consumers across the world use AR without batting an eyelid every time we add a Snapchat filter. This year, we're seeing Artificial Intelligence go through the same kind of shift.