Once you get up high enough, you don't have to worry about a lot of the obstacles like pedestrians and traffic jams that plague autonomous cars. That's why Sebastian Thrun, Google's self-driving team founder turned CEO of flying vehicle startup Kitty Hawk, said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today that we should expect true autonomy to succeed in the air before the road. "I believe we're going to be done with self-flying vehicles before we're done with self-driving cars," Thrun told TechCrunch reporter Kirsten Korosec. Why? "If you go a bit higher in the air then all the difficulties with not hitting stuff like children and bicycles and cars and so on just vanishes . . . Go above the buildings, go above the trees, like go where the helicopters are!" Thrun explained, but noted personal helicopters are so noisy they're being banned in some places like Napa, Calif. That proclamation has wide-reaching implications for how cities are planned and real estate is bought.

Several technology services contractors and consulting firms have won spots on a potential five-year, $49M contract to provide the Department of Health and Human Services' program support center with artificial intelligence and automation tools designed to facilitate operations, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. More than 50 awardees will vie for task orders to supply AI, machine learning, blockchain, robotic process automation and other technology platforms to PSC under the Intelligent Automation/Artificial Intelligence program. Those companies include General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology business, Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Accenture Federal Services, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), CGI Federal, Unisys (NYSE: UIS), Parsons' (NYSE: PSN) government services arm, Deloitte, Guidehouse and Octo Consulting Group. HHS issued in January a solicitation for the IAAI IDIQ contract, which has functional areas that include systems design, applied ideation and design support and prototyping. The PSC is a provider of shared services across HHS and 23 other agencies covering logistics, administrative operations, procurement, real estate, occupational health and financial management.

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We hear a lot about deep learning algorithms and their applications on very large data sets. This interview delves into a company and its customer base that works in that area. We provide a specific segment of artificial intelligence called machine super intelligence, which is the intersection of advanced deep learning and high-performance computing. Our customers are some of the largest customers in the world. We sit on top of their big data stack and we track patterns.

Artificial Intelligence is still a nascent technology; much of the groundbreaking work moving the industry forward is done inside AI research labs. It's often from those labs that open source projects are started. Institutes like Open AI, NASA's JPL, Google Deepmind, MIT CSAIL, BAIR, The Turing Institute, and Max Planck -- to name just a handful -- are presenting at ODSC in 2019, helping us bring our community to the leading edge of AI. To learn more about the labs' role at ODSC, visit ODSC West. Since our next conference is in San Francisco, we're looking west at a few exciting research labs in the area that are participating in ODSC this year.

The following industry perspective explains how AI can empower the IT workforce, relieve stress, and improve results today. A future-looking perspective from an academic researcher discusses AI advances that may one day transform one of IT's biggest headaches: cybersecurity defenses. Technology has become so deeply entwined in our personal and work lives that we have come to expect omnipresence and availability from a huge breadth of information and services. No one feels the pressure of this demand more than enterprise IT professionals, who must keep up with constantly evolving digital technologies. As much as 25% to 30% of the typical IT environment changes annually; companies update and upgrade systems, decommission others, apply software patches, move to new platforms, add entirely new technologies, and certify new applications.

This year, Europe's banks plan to make technology investments worth in aggregate $77 billion, according to consulting firm Celent. That compares with $105 billion for their U.S. rivals. Faster, more seamless trading systems have long been a priority, but tech spending has shifted across business lines and from back office to front office. It can cover everything from maintaining decades-old systems to cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, European lenders are more focused on patching old systems.

The majority of industries have begun their digital transformation journeys. Digital transformation in the construction industry, however, has been slow. Perhaps, this failure to adopt digital technology has been based on a systemic resistance to change? Indeed, this desire to adopt new technology is being hindered by almost all construction organisations overlook the importance of a technology partner in enabling training and up-skilling, according to a new report by Zen Internet. It found that, as is so often the case with traditional industries, culture is a significant barrier to embracing this necessary change. Despite this, it appears that there is a willingness to embrace the digital future in this industry and the report reveals that digital transformation has now laid its foundations firmly within the construction industry, with many organisations already working with new technologies such as AI.

Could the same technology that is used to unlock people's smartphones also help unlock the secrets of the universe? It may sound unlikely, but that's exactly what researchers from Switzerland's science and technology-focused university ETH Zurich are working to achieve. Using a variation of the type of artificial intelligence neural network behind today's facial recognition technology, they have developed new A.I. tools that could prove a game-changer in the discovery of so-called "dark matter." Physicists believe that understanding this mysterious substance is necessary to explain fundamental questions about the underlying structure of the universe. "The algorithm we [use] is very close to what is commonly used in facial recognition," Janis Fluri, a Ph.D. student who works in an ETH Zurich lab focused on applying neural networks to cosmological problems, told Digital Trends.

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