Beautiful people, straight to the business: PROGRAM 1830 Doors open/socializing 1900 Talks start 2030 Socializing 2230 End TALK 1: SMART MARITIME PORT OPERATIONS Maritime industry lags behind other transport industries in terms of use of technology. There is therefore an immense potential there. A port in the US decided to leverage the power of data science to optimize its operations. For this task they hired our speaker Arezki Djelouadji and his mates, Engineering graduates from Berkeley University. Use case context, challenges, technical solution, results and outcome are in Arezki's talk.

Asset managers today are faced with an overwhelming quantity of data. The paradox for many managers is that as the avalanche grows, clients and regulators are increasingly keen to look at the data on a much more granular level than in the past. Faced with these dual challenges and competing priorities, institutions are increasingly turning to data service experts to help them cope. Some managers turn to external third-party providers to ensure that they maintain oversight and control of their data in a transparent manner. And asset servicers, who are already close to the business and know the ins and outs, can perform many of these functions, replacing outdated operational processes and spreadsheets with more fit for purpose digital solutions.

Unprecedented volumes of data and advances in AI are transforming the marketing services industry, according to new research from technology advisory and investment firm GP Bullhound. The firm's new report, AI and the Services Revolution, reveals that investments in marketing-related AI have grown steadily, with $2.5 billion of investments in emerging companies in 2018--and $1 billion invested in Q2 2019 alone. In all, a total of $11 billion has been invested in the sector since 2014. While North America accounts for the majority of funding into AI marketing companies, with a yearly volume of around $1.5 billion in 2014-2018, Europe is showing the highest growth rate. The European market grew to represent 30 percent of all transactions in H1 2019, while Asian transactions have declined from 20 percent in 2018 to only 5 percent as of H1 2019.

Admiring the view from Bernhard Schölkopf's office at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, most people would not necessarily think of artificial intelligence. Through the large glass windows, one's eyes are drawn to the Swabian Alps, with the picturesque university town of Tübingen nestling in the valley below. Perhaps a panoramic view such as this is helpful for a scientist who is pushing the boundaries of human thought. "I get machines to learn by researching the way they search for structures in observed data", explains Professor Schölkopf, a pioneer in the field of what are known as core methods: "Using the core trick, linear and understandable algorithms can also be applied to complex non-linear scenarios." Through his basic research, the scientist is laying the foundation for reliable intelligent systems that can be used in robots or driverless cars.

It is the first graduate level, research-based AI university in the world. MBZUAI will enable graduate students, businesses, and governments to advance artificial intelligence. The university is named after His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, who has long advocated for the UAE's development of human capital through knowledge and scientific thinking to take the nation into the future. MBZUAI will introduce a new model of academia and research to the field of AI, providing students and faculty access to some of the world's most advanced AI systems to unleash its potential for economic and societal development. The announcement was made at a press conference at the University campus in Masdar City and was immediately followed by the first meeting of the MBZUAI Board of Trustees. Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State, who has been appointed Chair of the MBZUAI board of trustees and is spearheading the establishment of the University, said: "Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence aligns with the vision of the UAE leadership that is based on sustainable development, progress and the overall well-being of humanity and underpinned by capacity-building and active participation in finding practical solutions based on innovation and state-of-the-art technology.

U.S.-based artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI have rolled out a robot hand that can take and solve a Rubik's Cube. Joshua Gans is a professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management and the chief economist at the Creative Destruction Lab. Tiff Macklem is dean of Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Last week, the U.S.-based artificial intelligence research organization, OpenAI, rolled out a robot hand that can take and solve a Rubik's Cube. Creating a robot with visual sense and complex touch and dexterity is an impressive achievement in AI.

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has given three institutions a $5.5 million grant to collectively find solutions to some of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence (AI) today. Scientists from Georgia Tech, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratory will collaborate to develop technologies that are core to the DOE's priorities including cybersecurity, graph analytics, and electric grid resilience. Tushar Krishna, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Machine Learning Center (ML@GT), will serve as a deputy director of the newly established Center for Artificial Intelligence-focused Architectures and Algorithms (ARIAA). Georgia Tech is contributing expertise in modeling and developing custom accelerators for machine learning and sparse linear algebra. The institute will also provide access to its advanced computing resources.

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As someone with expertise in both real estate and data science, I've always been fascinated by Zillow's Zestimate. In the spirit of competition, I've developed Jim's estimate or Jestimate! The following interactive map contains 2018 home sales in San Francisco by neighborhood. Click on the neighborhood and then click on a home in the data table to see the Jestimate results versus the actual sales price. Zestimate uses a proprietary machine learning formula to estimate the current market value of a home.