Its founder knows his demographic well: residents of the religiously conservative Gaza Strip, with its culture of resistance. Some 1,400 men have been killed in the three wars with Israel since 2008, leaving many widows who would like to remarry. Tradition, however, can make it difficult for them to wed single men. Mr. Abu Mustafa, 34, a math teacher, said he had no specific reasons to get married again, but said he did wish to give "dignity" to a widow. Ms. Abu Mustafa's first husband died during the conflict between Hamas and Israel in 2012.

Silvia Chiappa is a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind, working at the intersection of probabilistic modeling and deep learning. Prior to DeepMind, she worked at Microsoft Research Cambridge, at the Statistical Laboratory University of Cambridge and the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. I spoke with Silvia to learn about her career in science, how we can overcome barriers for women in tech, and more. How did you begin your work in science and technology? At the age of 12 I started to appreciate the elegance of maths when learning about trigonometry.

Last year I wrote an overview post which defines a number of key concepts related to data science -- including data science itself -- and attempts to explain how these pieces fit together into a so-called "data science puzzle." As a new year begins, and a previous year worth of advances, insights, and accomplishments get rolled into our collective professional outlook, I thought it would be prudent to revisit this puzzle, noting and incorporating any changes and updates which may contribute to rearranging the puzzle for the foreseeable future, and to provide some addition commentary where warranted. Big Data is still important to data science. Take your pick of metaphors, but any way you look at it, Big Data is the raw material that has continues to fuel the data science revolution. As relates to Big Data, I believe that justification of data-acquisition and -retention from a business point of view, expectations that Big Data projects start providing actual financial returns, and the challenges related to data privacy and security will become the big Big Data stories not only of 2017 but moving forward in general.

Barbara is Co-Founder and CEO of the Chatbots Agency, a software development and consulting company based in Vienna, Austria. Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot Mica, helps you discover the best places worldwide. It was the first chatbot ever created for Messenger in Austria, was also one of the very first chatbots on the Facebook Messenger and Skype platform -- and is still the top 7 bot on Skype. Besides that Mica is also available on Kik, Telegram and Viber. In March Mica reached 100.000 unique users that have been chatting with her.

AI has become central to ideas about the future. But what exactly it is, and what it's going to do for us, are still very much questions to be answered. At an event in which she was described as "California's coolest data scientist", Chowdury explained that she works for the consultants Accenture and has a clutch of high-powered degrees. Chowdury wants to challenge the emerging conventional wisdom about AI. For a start, let's not forget that we're talking about computer code, she says, not some kind of techy Frankenstein.

I would like to introduce you all to my friend Bruce Oberhardt. Bruce is a brilliant and creative scientist. Please check out his bio below. It is fascinating to me what he does and how he speaks, teaches and explains his ideas. He brought the following article to my attention and I thought it was intriguing so here goes, time for sharing with all of you.

This post is the first in a three-part series we're publishing this summer on artificial intelligence, written by DigitalOcean's Head of R&D, Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes. In recent months, the amount of media coverage on AI has increased so significantly that a day doesn't go by without news about it. Whether it's an acquisition, a funding round, a new application, a technical innovation, or an opinion piece on ethical and philosophical issues ("AI will replace humans, take over the world, eat software, eat the world"), the content just keeps coming. The field is progressing at amazing speeds and there's a lot of experimentation. But with so much noise, it's hard to distinguish hype from reality, and while everyone seems to be rushing into AI in one way or another, it's fair to say there is a good amount of confusion on what AI really is, what sort of value it can bring and where things will go next.

Last year a former product team peer referred Datorama to connect with me. Usually I don't review vertical industry analytics solutions but the marketing angle was appealing to me. Secret be told…I fell in love with data back in the early 90s during my marketing major courses…marketing research, statistics and statistical process control. I am an American Marketing Association member and have always truly relished marketing throughout my technical career. After a briefing with Datorama, I was shocked to learn how many data sources the average marketer today has to aggregate in reporting.

Talk of mass job losses and the need to give humans a computer layer in their brain as a result of artificial intelligence (AI), an idea put forward by billionaire Elon Musk, are "alarmist" and distract from the good being done by the technology, a top start-up CEO told CNBC on Thursday. Major warnings have been issued by technologists about the impact of AI on society in the next few years. For example, Alibaba founder Jack Ma said society could face decades of "pain" from the result of automation, while Musk has started a company called Neuralink to research the development of human-machine interfaces. Babak Hodjat, the CEO of Sentient Technologies, one of the world's highest-funded AI start-ups, however, said that such developments were still in the realm of science fiction and in fact are distracting companies from developing world-changing solutions. "We are nowhere near that on the technology side, and it's distracting to the fact that AI today can help the world in so many places, and the discourse is being taken over by folks that are alarmists, around something that might happen in 100 years, 150 years," Hodjat told CNBC during an interview at the Pioneers tech show in Vienna on Thursday.

A researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is developing a bio-inspired'smart' knee joint for prosthetic lower limbs. Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, based at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, is leading the research and will analyse the functions, features and mechanisms of the human knee in order to translate this information into a new bio-inspired procedure for designing prosthetics. Dr Etoundi gained his PhD in bio-inspired technologies from the University of Bristol where he developed a design procedure for humanoid robotic knee joints. He is now turning his attention to nature, a growing area in robotics known as Bio-mimicry, combining curiosity about how biological systems work with solving complex engineering problems, in order to develop a prototype smart knee joint for prosthetics. Andy Lewis, a Paralympic Triathlon Gold Medallist (Rio 2016), who wears a lower limb prosthetic, will try out the new joint once developed, to compare its energy consumption and gait efficiency to current prosthetics.