Art and architecture already speaks to us on a multitude of levels. A new installation on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash., communicates in a new way, using artificial intelligence to "read the room" and become an interactive element reacting to people in the space. As part of the tech giant's Artist in Residence program, "Ada" has been installed in Microsoft's Building 99. Ada -- named for the 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace -- is a two-story, 1,800-pound web of hexagons forming an ellipsoid-shaped pavilion. The exoskeleton, which is reminiscent of The Spheres on Amazon's campus in Seattle, contains 895 3D-printed nodes that connect 1,274 fiberglass rods, and a web of fabric digitally knit with photoluminescent yarn.

For my capstone project at Metis, I decided to continue the work I was doing with natural language, film characterization and IBM Watson personality insights. In my previous project, I had successfully visualized the big five personality profiles of film characters across a single genre. However, for this project, I decided to take the work several steps further. Before embarking on my journey to become a data scientist, my work was primarily rooted in the immersive experience design industry. While I have been in the industry for nearly a decade, in 2015 I founded my own immersive experience company called Screenshot Productions.

Healthcare and technology are two industries that have always gone hand in hand. Healthcare professionals are able to do their jobs more efficiently, effectively and safety thanks to innovations in medical technology. These days, one of the biggest emerging technology sectors in healthcare is something we've been imagining in science fiction for decades: The robot nurse. Though we're nowhere near the point of doctors and nurses being replaced by robots, these machines are now assisting nurses in managing their everyday tasks as aging populations in many countries put a strain on existing healthcare staffing. By 2021, the market is projected to hit $2.8 billion in revenue and shows every sign of growing even faster in the near future.

In the next 10 minutes, you'll possibly be amazed, amused, blown away, frightened, or lost in thought. As this is the beginning of a new year and we'd all rather feel joyful – let's focus on the amusing part. Here are 8 mind-boggling technology acceleration outcomes awaiting for us in the (near) future. Artificial Intelligence (AI) by definition is an artificially created ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. AI could carry out a complete simulation of the human brain and even exceed it.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the world's oldest international airline still operating under its original name. On its 100th anniversary, FTE spoke to Daan Debie, Director Engineering & Architecture, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, who outlined how the airline has embraced innovation through its "pioneering and entrepreneurial spirit". Indeed, KLM's vigorous digital transformation strategy is largely due to recognising and leveraging the advantages of modern technology. Debie, who will speak in the Premium Conference at FTE-APEX Asia EXPO 2019 (12-13 November, Singapore), explains: "Digital transformation does not just mean replacing paper with apps. For us it means getting the right information to the right people at the right time to enable well-informed decision-making in an increasingly complex environment, supported by digital tooling. "Key to this is to be truly data-driven, working from a single-source-of-truth and applying cutting-edge technology and algorithms to make sense of the complex operations." KLM is currently investing heavily in building automated decision-making tools to improve operations. In June last year, the airline embarked on a unique partnership with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) which has the potential to "revolutionise global airline operations". The project is a result of a close collaboration between KLM Operations Decision Support and Operations frontline teams, BCG's consulting team, and members of BCG Gamma, an artificial intelligence and advanced analytics entity of data scientists, data engineers and software developers, who have developed a solution based on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced optimisation that addresses all elements of the airline operations, while having a positive impact on customer experience and operating costs. With these tools, KLM and other airlines will be able to tackle the most complex decisions pertaining to fleet, crew, ground services and network, with a focus on breaking down the typical silos across these departments. Earlier this year, Brazilian low-cost carrier GOL became the first airline customer of the KLM-BCG joint venture which will help GOL deliver better on-time performance to its customers while maintaining low costs. As Director Engineering & Architecture for the Department of Operations Decision Support (ODS) at KLM, Debie is responsible for creating and maintaining a cohesive overall architecture and technological vision for the products and platforms developed at ODS, but also for other clients within the partnership between KLM and BCG. "I help teams within ODS and BCG/KLM teams at Partnership clients to build their products in accordance with the architectural vision," he explains. "Additionally, I'm responsible for ensuring that we maintain high engineering standards in our development efforts.

In recent years AI models have learned to play games ranging from Go to Poker to StarCraft. One-by-one, the machines have demonstrated their superiority over even the strongest human players. With the challenge seemingly solved for existing games, what about testing AI in an entirely different way -- by having it design new games for humans to play? A team of researchers has proposed a Generative Adversarial Network based model tasked with creating playable and aesthetically appealing game levels for popular action-adventure video game series The Legend of Zelda. In their paper Bootstrapping Conditional GANs for Video Game Level Generation, researchers from New York University, IT University of Copenhagen, OriGen.ai, and modl.ai

Deep learning technology has impacted almost every other industry. Deep Learning is helping businesses associated with sports to expand. From NHL to MLB, NBA, NFL, and NASCAR, almost every major sports league in U.S.A is now incorporating AI to expand its business. According to Statista, the North American sports market is predicted to reach $80.3 billion in 2022. The revenue may come from merchandising, gate revenue, media rights, and sponsorships. There are many different areas in the sports industry, where AI plays an important role.

After years of development, Alphabet's drone delivery service Wing is officially open for business. The company announced the beginning of service for residents of Christiansburg, Virginia, who will be able to order over-the-counter medication, snacks, and other small items and have them airlifted straight to their homes by a drone. Initially, Wing will deliver goods on behalf of three partner companies with FedEx, Walgreens, and Super Magnolia, a local Virginia grocery store chain. After years of preparation, Alphabet's drone delivery service Wing has officially begun operations in Christiansburg, Virginia The company made the announcement via a blog post on Medium and included a video showing how the delivery service will work. The FAA approved Alphabet's drone delivery program in March, and the company announced it's plans for'store to door' of more than 100 products in Virginia last September.

With AutoML Vision Edge, you can create custom image classification models for your mobile app by uploading your own training data. Firebase ML Kit has a lot of features that allows you to perform machine learning on the user's phone. AutoML allows you to create a custom solution exactly for your problem, the best part is you don't need to know machine learning for building your solution. You just have to upload images and AutoML takes care of everything for you. In this blog post we will build an app called SeeFood, the app sees food and tells you what food item it is.

FREMONT, CA: Inspired by the human brain, today, neuromorphic chips are used in various industries. Neuromorphic chips show the emerging capabilities of artificial intelligence by successfully simulating the neural structure of the human brain. By encoding and suttling data in the series of electric busts, neuromorphic chips work like biological brains by developing its neural networks and combating processor issues. Neuromorphic chips offer potential commercial applications, which include power-efficient supercomputers, low-power sensors, self-learning robots, and more. The advanced technology empowers IT service providers by offering next-generation processing chips that are significantly faster than the available ones.