As with so many things, the pace of change- even in agriculture- is increasing rapidly, and it turns out that even agriculture is not immune to the changes of the digital age. Technological innovations have the ability to transform every link in the food chain, from seed to fork. The need to embrace the opportunities these innovations offer is real: in order to feed the nearly 10 billion people with whom we will be sharing this planet by 2050, crop and livestock productivity improvements are essential. Agricultural efficiency is still relatively poor: 7 tons of feed is needed to produce just 1 ton of meat. It takes 880 gallons of water to produce one gallon of milk.

A Kiwi company developing artificial intelligence has delivered its latest digital human, called Rachel. Rachel can see, hear and respond to you. She is an avatar created by two-time Oscar winner Mark Sagar, who worked on the blockbuster movie of the same name. Mr Sagar, of Auckland-based company Soul Machines, says his aim is to make man socialise with machine, by putting a human face on artificial intelligence. "So what we are doing with Soul Machines is trying to build the central nervous system for humanising this kind of computer," he says.

Professor James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park received his Ph.D. degree in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea. From December, 2002 to July, 2007, Dr. Park had been a research scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September, 2007 to August, 2009, He had been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. Dr. Park has published about 100 research papers in international journals and conferences.

Here are 100 upcoming meetings and conferences, for July 2017 and beyond. You can also find the latest list on KDnuggets Meetings page Color code: Business-Oriented meetings in Blue, Research meetings (with calls for papers and program committee) in green Top countries: India, France, Australia: 3 New York City regained the top billing this month - here are the top cities for meetings: San Francisco, Boston: 8 Seattle, New Orleans, Berlin, Atlanta: 3 July 2017 Jul 5-8, 2017 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS). Register now and save 15% with code KDN15. Space is limited - register soon and save 20% extra w. Save 20% on most passes with discount code PCKDNG.

Four WWE superstars are unofficially in the running to be in the main event of SummerSlam 2017 on Aug. 20. The biggest match since WrestleMania 33 will be determined Sunday night at Great Balls of Fire 2017, WWE's next "Monday Night Raw" pay-per-view. Great Balls of Fire 2017 is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. EDT, and the pre-show gets underway at 7:30 p.m. EDT. Ordering the event on PPV costs $54.99, but fans can also watch the event with a live stream on the WWE Network. A subscription to the network costs $9.99 per month, though new subscribers get the first month free.

The invasion of robots into factories and offices has long been seen as final blow for workforces ravaged by cheap offshore labour and the never ending quest to cut costs. However, that is a view being seriously challenged in hi-tech steel fabricating factory just south of Brisbane. Having put "artificially intelligent" welding and cutting equipment to work, Smart Steel Systems chief executive Chis Brugeaud said he was now able to bring back jobs "onshore" and reverse the trend of laying off people as technology improves. "What makes us different from the traditional fabricator is we have as many developers as we do welders, so we can process around 42,000 tonnes of steel a year," Mr Brugeaud told The Business program. Robotics has delivered two noticeable outcomes.

"OK Google, what can you do when connected to Talend?" In this tutorial, I will show how to create an Agent in API.AI that will respond to commands spoken to Google Home. The Agent will reverse the words in a sentence spoken to Google Home by making use of a Talend web service which is used to carry out the word reversal. A very simple example, but it demonstrates the ground work you will need to create some really quite interesting applications. You do not need one to try this tutorial out as Google has provided an emulator, but I can highly recommend the device. Recently Google opened up access to the Actions on Google API. You can either use the Actions SDK or use API.AI. API.AI was recently acquired by Google. While API.AI is really quite simple to use, it is quite limited in how it can be used with Google Home at the moment.

Yesterday, AMD showed off the first real-time benchmarks of the Radeon Vega graphics card against the NVIDIA Pascal based Tesla P100 in deep learning benchmarks. In its first attempt, the RTG developed GPU was able to give NVIDIA's best compute card from last year a good beating but there's more to the benchmarks. NVIDIA launched the Tesla P100 based on Pascal GP100 back in early 2016. Since then, it has been the fastest compute solution available to date. NVIDIA kicked off 2017 with the announcement of the next chapter in graphics deep learning.

Making inferences from data streams is a pervasive problem in many modern data analysis applications. But it requires to address the problem of continuous model updating, and adapt to changes or drifts in the underlying data generating distribution. In this paper, we approach these problems from a Bayesian perspective covering general conjugate exponential models. Our proposal makes use of non-conjugate hierarchical priors to explicitly model temporal changes of the model parameters. We also derive a novel variational inference scheme which overcomes the use of non-conjugate priors while maintaining the computational efficiency of variational methods over conjugate models. The approach is validated on three real data sets over three latent variable models.

Is bingeing a good thing? The mobile network Three would like to persuade you it is. Its latest, just-announced phone tariff is called Go Binge and it encourages you to make the most of your 4G connection with streaming that doesn't impact on your monthly data total. Not for just any streaming, you understand, but for four carefully picked apps. They're pretty good apps to choose, though: Netflix, TVPlayer, Deezer and SoundCloud.