The Navy is planning to launch a massive, 50-ton undersea drone to expand mission scope, increase attack options, integrate large high-tech sensors, further safeguard manned combat crews and possibly fire torpedoes -- all while waging war under the ocean surface. The 50-ton Orca, which would not fit in a submarine launch tube, brings an unprecedented sensing, endurance and attack advantage. The Navy has finished its Critical Design Review of the Orca, called an Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle, and begun construction, Capt. Pete Small, Program Manager for Unmanned Systems, Naval Sea Systems Command, said in early May at the Navy League's Sea Air Space Symposium. Earlier this year, Boeing was awarded a $43 million deal to build four Orcas.

The AnyLogic Conference 2019 made clear how simulation modeling continues to empower all kinds of industries from all around the world. The exciting progress being made in machine learning and its strengthening relationship with simulation also featured strongly throughout the event. Here we have gathered the presentations for download and also posted some photos! Simulation experts and machine learning specialists from across industries assembled in Austin, Texas, April 17-18, to share their insights and demonstrate innovative ideas. With a combination of presentations, workshops, and a panel discussion, they did not disappoint.

HSBC and SoftBank Robotics America are working together to roll out robotics in retail banking. Humanoid robot Pepper, developed by SoftBank, has been launched in a Miami branch of HSBC, marking the first time the bot has been used in retail banking in the state of Florida. HSBC has already used Pepper in the US, and was the first bank in the country to use the robot. It started in HSBC's flagship Manhattan branch and has since spread across the country, with Miami marking an important milestone in the rollout. Pepper works to improve customer engagement by educating customers on product information and making self service available.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can deliver significant business value. But to maximize the benefits of AI, you need to focus on creating solutions to real business challenges rather than on the technology itself. AI can help you solve business challenges in virtually every industry. At the recent Gartner ITxpo, my colleague Anne-Sophie Lotgering, Orange Business Services CMDO, talked about how the most successful companies will augment human workforces with AI. In fact, Gartner predicts that AI augmentation will generate $2.9 trillion in business value and recover 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity by 2021. It estimates that 37% of large enterprises have already tipped their toe in the water and using AI to some extent.

AMSTERDAM / LONDON June 3, 2019 -- Contexta360, a leading speech analytics and conversational computing company, today announced it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with KPN, a leading Dutch Telecommunications provider. The agreement delivers class-leading speech-to-text and call analytics solutions to KPN's API Store as well as advanced speech analytics, compliance and real-time capabilities to their call centre and CX team. This wider portfolio of capabilities will allow KPN's customers gain greater insight into call context, but also improve clients' compliance, quality and revenue opportunities. The agreement will extend to Contexta360: Speech-to-text, Contexta360: Analyzer, C360: Qualitymonitor, C360: Connect and C360: Assist and will allow KPN's clients to analyse tens of millions of call conversations for sentiment, compliance, key selling or service opportunities and dramatically improve agent training and quality performance metrics both in real-time and post-call analysis. The relationship will enhance KPN's portfolio and enable customers using Genesys, Avaya, Mitel, NICE, Verint to add significant capabilities without the need to replace any of their current technology.

MACKINAC ISLAND – Wednesday at the Mackinac Policy Conference, Gov. Whitmer announced a new program to advance smart infrastructure initiatives and MACKINAC ISLAND – Wednesday at the Mackinac Policy Conference, Gov. Whitmer announced a new program MACKINAC ISLAND – Wednesday at the Mackinac Policy Conference, Gov. Whitmer announced a new program YPSILANTI--The American Society of Mechanical Engineers will sponsor "Electric/Self-Drive Vehicle Technology In Action" Tuesday, May DETROIT - The Michigan Mobility Institute on May 21 announced Wayne State University's College of ANN ARBOR--Four new research grants from the University of Michigan's Graham Sustainability Institute will address LIVONIA--PSI Repair Services Inc., the Livonia-based service provider to the wind energy industry, announced that DETROIT - The Michigan Mobility Institute on May 21 announced Wayne State University's College of LANSING - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to be the keynote speaker June 20 LANSING - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to be the keynote speaker June 20 LANSING - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to be the keynote speaker June 20 LANSING - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to be the keynote speaker June 20 EAST LANSING -- Michigan State University engineering students sounded the channel and won the "foxhunt" LANSING - Michigan's 15 universities would see a 1.9 percent increase under the House version DETROIT - With fuel prices the lowest they've been since the start of the Great

This is the third article of a three-part series of articles in Getting started Geographic Data Science with Python. You will learn about reading, manipulating and analysing Geographic data in Python. The third part, which is this article, covers a relevant and real-world project wrapping up to cement your learning. Learning Objectives for this case study are: 1. Apply spatial operations on real word dataset project 2. Spatial join and munging Geographic data. In this project, we will use two datasets: a population dataset disaggregated by age and preschools dataset from Statistics Sweden.

Smart board level questions to ask about AI. Artificial intelligence, or "AI," raises legal and ethical issues beyond those generally found in investments in technology. Due to the rapid growth in this area, the lack of standards for evaluation and oversight and the risks associated with AI use, AI projects would particularly benefit from board inquiry and oversight. Board members should ask the following questions as their company evaluates its use of AI. Will AI be replacing human judgment?

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (abbreviated AI2) is a research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The institute seeks to achieve scientific breakthroughs by constructing AI systems with reasoning, learning, and reading capabilities.[1] Oren Etzioni was appointed by Paul Allen in September 2013 to direct the research at the institute.[2][3][4] In 2018, the institute partnered with the University of Washington to explore deep learning artificial intelligence designed to predict how dogs would respond to stimulus. Researchers used over 20,000 frames of video to train an AI to predict movements and learn other dog behavior.[15]

In southeast England, patients discharged from a group of hospitals serving 500,000 people are being fitted with a Wi-Fi-enabled armband that remotely monitors vital signs such as respiratory rate, oxygen levels, pulse, blood pressure, and body temperature. Under a National Health Service pilot program that now incorporates artificial intelligence to analyze all that patient data in real time, hospital readmission rates are down, and emergency room visits have been reduced. What's more, the need for costly home visits has dropped by 22%. Longer term, adherence to treatment plans have increased to 96%, compared to the industry average of 50%. The AI pilot is targeting what Harvard Business School Professor and Innosight co-founder Clay Christensen calls "non-consumption."