Britain's Prince William, left, and his wife Kate the Duchess of Cambridge are greeted as they arrive, in front of a model zebra, to attend the Tusk Conservation Awards at the Royal Society in London, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. The annual awards aim to recognize and celebrate outstanding achievement in the field of African conservation. The United Kingdom's national science academy or the Royal Society meets for the first time. The rise of modern science, announced by the foundation of the Royal Society of London… [and] its increasing authority… was another reflection of the waning influence of religious faith in society and the already unquestionable dominance of secular national concerns. It was the importance of science for the English national identity and the function it performed for the cultural image of England that created the state of public opinion favorable to its cultivation, encouraging to those who had the abilities to devote to it, and causing many Englishmen who knew very little about the substance of scientific knowledge to stand in reverence before expressions of scientific creativity.

Fashion stylists have had their heyday: From Rachel Zoe to Monica Rose, it's been all about how to woo the press without making a gaffe and making sure their clients elegantly rep high-end brands. But not anymore: SK Planet's Machine Intelligence Lab is set to debut a search engine for fashion products that relies upon artificial neural networks by late 2016, as first reported by Quartz. The machine SK Planet built understands how to match clothes and sizes, and has a sense of what's considered stylish, as it's learned to copy looks from photos of outfits put together by big stylists. For online retail, this means that many of the headaches surrounding what consumers want might be alleviated. This new tool comes on on the heels of other recent machine learning news.

Recently we've been participating at Days of Computer Science, organized by the Museum of Post and Telecommunications and the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The project brought together pupils and students from around the country and hopefully showed them what computer science is mostly about. Most children would think programming is just typing lines of code. It's a way of thinking, a way to solve problems creatively and efficiently. And even better, computer science can be used for solving a great variety of problems.

The short answer is yes. Most economists think the answer is no, because in the past automation hasn't caused lasting unemployment. They call it the Luddite Fallacy because the Luddites, the people who went around smashing up weaving machines during the Industrial Revolution, were wrong about the effect of automation – at least to the extent that they were making a broad economic argument. I think the economists are guilty of the Reverse Luddite Fallacy, which is to say that because automation hasn't caused lasting unemployment in the past it can't do so in the future. It's different this time because in previous rounds of unemployment machines have replaced our muscle jobs while in future rounds they're going to replace our cognitive skills.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today unveiled a series of intelligent and comprehensive connected radiology solutions at the 2016 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting (RSNA), beginning November 27 through December 1 at McCormick Place in Chicago. At the Philips booth (#6735), RSNA attendees will experience a new portfolio of digital imaging systems, intelligent software and services to enhance diagnostics, improve patient care and operational efficiencies. Radiology is at the center of the majority of healthcare decisions, driving the timely detection and accurate diagnosis and treatment of disease at its earliest stages. As health organizations continue to move toward value-based care, they need intelligent solutions to meet the challenges they face in improving outcomes, lowering cost of healthcare delivery and enhancing patient satisfaction. "Radiologists are playing a pivotal role in determining the right path to the right treatment," said Robert Cascella, CEO, Diagnosis and Treatment, Philips.

The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion explores how rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are poised to reshape procurement -- like a fast-forwarding to a once-fanciful vision of the future. Whereas George Jetson of the 1960s cartoon portrayed a world of household robots, flying cars, and push-button corporate jobs -- the 2017 procurement landscape has its own impressive retinue of decision bots, automated processes, and data-driven insights. We won't need to wait long for this vision of futuristic business to arrive. As we enter 2017, applied intelligence derived from entirely new data analysis benefits has redefined productivity and provided business leaders with unprecedented tools for managing procurement, supply chains, and continuity risks. To learn more about the future of predictive -- and even proactive -- procurement technologies, please welcome Chris Haydon, Chief Strategy Officer at SAP Ariba. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Gardner: It seems like only yesterday that we were content to gain a common view of the customer or develop an end-to-end bead on a single business process.

Heavy rains have caused landslides in the region of Liguria, as shown in this video footage released by firefighters.

Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, estimate that, as a result of gender bias, papers whose first authors are women receive around 10% fewer citations than do those that are first-authored by men. Gender disparities in citation patterns have been documented across science before. But researchers have not previously tried to quantify how much of the differences are the result of gender bias. For instance, men and women may publish different types of papers; women may work in different scientific fields, and may hold less-senior positions. But the new paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed and was posted on the arXiv preprint server on October 27, tries to account and correct for these factors.

Technicans examine data following the trial of an autonomous self-driving vehicle in a pedestrianised zone in Milton Keynes, north of London. There has been much fevered talk about the imminence of self driving cars, leaving the impression with the public that it won't be very long before the automobiles we buy don't even have steering wheels or pedals. This has been fuelled by the car manufacturers themselves as they swap overblown rhetoric about the progress being made thanks to their engineer's ingenuity and the massive sums committed to these projects. Britain's BMI Research hosted a seminar recently where it tried to get the hype and bluster and provide some insight into the prospects of computerised/robot/autonomous vehicles. Perhaps job one should be to decide which of these terms makes the most sense.

Technologies including AI, bots, drones and robots will lead to the automation of large parts of the global workforce More than 861,000 public sector jobs could be lost by 2030 through automation, according to a study that comes as a further blow after hundreds of thousands of UK public sector jobs disappeared following the government's austerity cuts during and after the recession. However, it has to be said, that as more and more governments around the world experiment with Universal Basic Income (UBI) programs, including Scotland who may even start trails next week, the news doesn't come as a complete surprise. The research conducted by Oxford University and Deloitte, the business advisory firm, found that the 1.3m administrative jobs across the public sector had the highest chance of being automated. New blockchain DNS system would put an end to DDoS attacks But, following on from the London Borough of Enfields move to replace some customer services clerks with a bot called "Amelia," even teachers, police officers and social workers could be replaced, at least in part, allowing the government to either free up more staff for frontline work or reduce the number of workers on the payroll. The research is included in Deloitte's State of the State report, which analyses the state of public finances and the challenges facing public services. Deloitte's previous work has shown that all sectors will be affected by automation in the next two decades, with 74% of jobs in transportation and storage, 59% in wholesale and retail trades and 56% in manufacturing having a high chance of being automated.