In this regular series, we're speaking to various players in the private equity and venture capital spaces--including startups, investors and noteworthy dealmakers--to see what daily life looks like for them. This week we talked to Tom Strange (pictured), founder of artificial intelligence startup Constellation AI. What does a typical day look like for you? Ideally, I would target to get up somewhere in the region of 5:15 am to 5:30 am and would start the day with some rituals and routines, which I do for around an hour. These involve certain breath patterns, which are yoga-inspired, journaling and essentially activities that will get me in the right state to go about my day.

Zesty.ai was selected as the Silver Award winner by Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) in the first ever Zurich Innovation World Championship for its work leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize risk underwriting and customer experience for Property and Casualty insurance. Zurich is a leading multi-line insurer with about 53,000 employees and presence in more than 210 countries. Zurich is the parent company of Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance. Zesty.ai has developed an AI-based solution that can provide insurers with detailed and accurate property insights to improve underwriting, pricing and post-event response. Using satellite and drone imagery, information collected by aircraft, weather data and other structured data sources, zesty.ai

An interview with the force behind Seeing AI, the talking camera app for people who are blind or with low vision. Saqib Shaikh lost his sight at the age of seven, fell in love with computers as a schoolboy in Britain and grew up to become a top software engineer with an inspirational mission. Standing at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and inclusive design, he believes we can create intelligent machines to empower millions of people around the world with disabilities to achieve more and live enhanced lives. The knowledge gained from targeting and solving the problems of those with special needs, he says, can only drive technological innovation that benefits everyone across society. Saqib has had a lifelong relationship with advancing digital technology.

Strategy: "What is your plan, how do you think about it?" Executives need to account for the fact that the economics of AI are unlike previous technologies. "With machine learning and AI, if you implement one thing, it modifies the cost function for everything else," Mason says. "When you do one thing well, it makes others things do well, and cheaper. At the same time, it's difficult to predict the outcomes of AI projects. "Unlike other engineering disciplines, at the beginning of an AI project, you don't know how you're going to solve it, and what the quality of the end result will look like.

Data science is an integral part of building an efficient ride-hailing platform. At Taxify, it took us just one year to build a strong and agile data science function which works on state-of-the-art solutions and deals with optimising millions of rides happening in real time. While interviewing hundreds of candidates, we've realised that even those with a strong technical background were very often lacking some essential skills. In this article, we're talking about things that they don't teach you in Machine Learning courses. Tech industry has (more or less) learned how to make engineers and business work together.

Welcome to InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Awards, our annual celebration of the best, most innovative, most important products in the information technology landscape. In this 2019 edition of the awards, you might happen to guess that containers, cloud-native application stacks, distributed data processing systems, and machine learning are major themes. Among our 16 winners, you'll find three leading machine learning libraries, a distributed training framework that accelerates deep learning, and an automated platform that guides non-experts through feature engineering, model selection, training, and optimization. That makes more picks in machine learning than any other product category, including software development--a reflection of the astonishing level of activity in the space. Three databases made our winner's list this year, including a wide-column data store, a multi-purpose data store, and a database that seems as much application platform as data store.

Matthew Sadler (1974) is a Grandmaster who twice won the British Championship and was awarded an individual Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympiad. He has authored several highly acclaimed books on chess and has been writing the famous'Sadler on Books' column for New In Chess magazine for many years. Natasha Regan is a Women's International Master from England who achieved a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University. Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan won the English Chess Federation 2016 Book of the Award for their book Chess for Life. Garry Kasparov: "Chess has been shaken to its roots by AlphaZero." Steven Strogatz (professor of mathematics at Cornell), New York Times, December 26, 2018: "Most unnerving was that AlphaZero seemed to express insight. It played like no computer ever has, intuitively and beautifully, with a romantic, attacking style."

TechRepublic Managing Editor Bill Detwiler spoke with Panasonic's Faisal Pandit about how Panasonic has been in the sensor and data business for decades, and it's using that experience to build a data-focused IoT business. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Bill Detwiler: How do you see IoT evolving in the next year? Maybe you start with where we kind of are from your perspective in IoT, and what Panasonic is looking at, and what do you see coming in the next year? Faisal Pandit: A lot of people think IoT is a new thing.

What is going on in our brains when we are creating? How does our brain look different when we are engaging in art versus science? How does the brain of genius creators differ from the rest of us? What are some of the limitations of studying the creative brain? The neuroscience of creativity is booming.

In this series called Member Showcase, we publish interviews with members of The Oracles. This interview is with Dr. Yaniv Altshuler, founder and CEO of Endor, which improves business decisions and revenue by predicting consumer behavior. It was condensed by The Oracles. Who was your biggest influence growing up? They taught me to believe in myself and my ability to achieve anything.