Before our species set foot on the moon, we orbited it first. The same will probably be true for Mars, and on Wednesday, Lockheed Martin plans to unveil its vision for a spacecraft that could make it happen. The "Mars Base Camp," as the company is calling it, would set up a laboratory, staffed by 6 astronauts, in Mars orbit in 2028. Up to now, NASA has outlined the first few steps to Mars. It's building a heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), and working with Lockheed to build the Orion crew capsule.

Data science is a team activity. Ideally, you want to build a team in which diverse specialists pool their skills and knowledge, wield a core set of sophisticated productivity tools and collaborate flexibly and efficiently. Data scientists produce a steady stream of machine-learning, predictive, segmentation and other advanced analytics models. As a team, its effectiveness depends on having advanced tools such as Apache Spark and languages such as R and Python at their disposal. It also depends on having tools to support creative design, agile collaboration and workflow management of data, algorithms, models and other artifacts.

Do you understand the relative impact that machine learning and predictive analytics can have over patient care? If you work in the healthcare industry, I'd suggest that you familiarize yourself with these technologies because working in this environment will soon be an unavoidable reality. This way of treatment with machine learning and predictive analytics is becoming more accepted in today's healthcare industry, but people are still more than 80% under water when it comes to a full-fledged understanding of these cutting edge solutions. There are thousands of healthcare IT companies all over the United States that insource and outsource the development of software and mobile ready applications to solve issues being faced in the technological age of EMRs. It's tough to turn a blind eye to the big named corporations like IBM, rolling out Watson, the machine learning powerhouse that is being implemented across multiple industries, including healthcare.

For consumer product companies to leverage sales and increase overall growth, professional development is a top priority for the VP of sales. But it can be challenging to determine where to allocate resources and training budgets. The VP of sales needs to pay careful attention to return on investment (ROI) and ensure that educational spending is improving sales team performance. Here are three data-driven approaches that executives can use to tackle team education and enablement challenges for consumer product sales. At a CPG company, the VP of sales is responsible for developing and driving go-to-market strategies while also ensuring a unified value proposition.

According to a new survey (PDF) from the CFA Institute, Wall Street is getting a bit worried about fintech replacing its jobs. The majority of respondents, which included more than 3,000 chartered financial analysts around the world, view asset management as the industry most at risk from disruption by financial technology. Fifty-four percent of respondents said the sector would feel the biggest changes, followed by banking, securities, and insurance. Robo-advisers, a low cost alternative to traditional financial advice, has garnered headlines recently as fees have come under increased scrutiny. According to remarks this week by Wall Street executives attending the Milken Institute Global Conference, the entire world of finance should fear job replacement.

Ross is the world's first AI (artificial intelligence) lawyer robot created to assist a US-based law firm BakerHostetler in it day-to-day legal research. The law firm's Chief Information Officer Bob Craig stated that: "At BakerHostetler, we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to our clients." Wondering how Ross was built and what sort of functions does he perform? Let us inform you in detail. Ross was created on IBM's cognitive computer Watson, which enabled the robot to have cognitive computing and natural language processing skills.

Everyone in San Francisco these days wants to build a self-driving car. So in a company town that prides itself on going against the grain, this startup wants to build a self-driving truck. On Tuesday, several former Google, Tesla and Apple engineers announced they had quit their prestigious jobs to start Otto, which aims to sell automation kits for the massive semi-trailers that crowd America's highways. The company says it has logged more than 10,000 test miles and recently tested its truck on a Nevada highway. Self-driving startups have become commonplace in the latest tech boom as many engineers have lost interest in simply building apps and robotics technology becomes cheaper.

The first is that human labor cost must exceed the cost of purchasing and using the alternative technology. In Roman Alexandria the cost of employing humans to do manual work was very low, a reflection of the fact that the supply of labor was much greater than the demand for producing goods and services. It was a lot cheaper to pay someone to do something, or indeed to buy a slave, than buying and using one of Hero's steam engines. In 18th century England labor costs were rising as more hands were needed to keep up with the global demand of goods, particularly as England, and soon to follow Europe, established trade posts and colonies around the world. Fast forward to the 21st century: for the past few decades the world economy has enjoyed low inflation and global growth thanks mostly to China, and the millions of Chinese workers who migrated from the rural areas to the urban cities and started working on factories.

Imagine a world in which you could not walk past someone on the street without them being able to identify you. This is already a reality for some people, thanks to a new website designed in Russia. 'FindFace' uses a new algorithm to identify anyone from their profile picture using only a photograph, with 70 per cent accuracy. 'FindFace' uses a new algorithm to identify anyone from their profile picture using only a photograph, with 70 per cent accuracy. The website works by comparing photographs to profile pictures on Vkontakte - a social network popular in Russia and the former Soviet Union with more than 200 million accounts.

The US Navy is set to use a radical new drone that can be launched from a submarine. The Blackwing drone is stored in a three inch tube, and uses existing systems submarines use for acoustic countermeasures. Once airborne, the shell falls apart and the drone unfurls its wings. The Blackwing drones are launched from a three-inch canister aboard submarines or unmanned underwater vehicles. The miniature UAVs are launched through the boats' existing systems it uses for acoustic countermeasures and have a flight endurance of less than an hour'AeroVironment's new Blackwing unmanned aircraft system is a valuable new capability that resulted from our team's close collaboration with, and responsiveness to, the U.S. Navy's undersea warfare community and the Special Operations community,' said Kirk Flittie, AeroVironment vice president and general manager of its Unmanned Aircraft Systems business segment.