BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) announced today that Sophia Velastegui of Microsoft has joined the accounting automation software leader's board of directors, effective March 16th, 2020, bringing the number of female directors on BlackLine's board to three. A widely recognized technology industry leader and artificial intelligence (AI) expert, Ms. Velastegui will draw on her more than 20 years of experience at global technology trailblazers Microsoft, Google and Apple to help BlackLine maintain its leadership position and guide the company through its next phase of growth. "Sophia has an incredible technology background and is recognized as one of the foremost engineers in the field," said BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker. "She'll bring that experience and knowledge to our board and will help ensure that BlackLine utilizes the latest AI, machine learning and other predictive and emerging technologies to continue to innovate and serve our customers. And, she shares my passion, advocating for diversity in technology and leadership."

Accenture Completes Acquisition of Mudano, Enhancing Its Analytics and Data Transformation Services to Financial Services Firms in the UK LONDON; Feb. 28, 2020 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed its acquisition of Mudano, a strategic data consultancy to U.K. financial services firms. The acquisition enhances Accenture's analytics, data and artificial intelligence (AI) transformation capabilities. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Mudano's team of industry-focused data professionals will join Accenture Applied Intelligence. Mudano was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, with a presence in Edinburgh, Scotland. About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.

CLARA analytics ("CLARA"), the leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the commercial insurance industry, today announced multiple additions to its executive team. Dustin Oxborrow joins the company as senior vice president of sales, while Brian Sullivan was named senior vice president of customer success, and Chris Koverman becomes vice president of engineering and operations. The new hires come as demand for CLARA's products continues to rise. "CLARA is growing rapidly, with aggressive plans to expand into new areas within the commercial insurance industry," said Gary Hagmueller, CEO of CLARA. "To continue executing on all fronts, we've been on a mission to hire key personnel with highly specialized skill sets. I am incredibly excited that Dustin, Brian and Chris have joined us. Their collective talents and expertise will help drive the company forward as we work to transform the insurance industry with strategic, meaningful applications of AI." New team members' career highlights include: Over the past year, CLARA has seen demand for its products dramatically accelerate.

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This algorithm consists of 2 parts: a LSTM block and a FCN part with 3 convolution layers. Long short-term memory recurrent neural networks are an improvement over the general recurrent neural networks,which possess a vanishing gradient problem. LSTM RNNs address the vanishing gradient problem commonly found in ordinary recurrent neural networks by incorporating gating functions into their state dynamics. For more information about LSTM networks, you can read this great article by Christopher Olah. In addition to the LSTM block, this part also includes a dimension shuffle.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Alzheimer's Applications" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term used to identify a scientific field that covers the creation of machines aimed at reproducing wholly or in part the intelligent behavior of human beings. These machines include computers, sensors, robots, and hypersmart devices. As shown in the figure below, the ultimate purpose of artificial intelligence is to create smart machines that, through the steps of learning, reasoning, and self-correcting, will eventually be able to make decisions, solve problems, and act like human beings.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 11, 2020 – Lenovo and SentinelOne, an autonomous cybersecurity platform company, announced a strategic partnership to integrate SentinelOne's autonomous endpoint protection platform within Lenovo's ThinkShield security portfolio. Lenovo customers now have the ability to purchase devices with SentinelOne, delivering real-time prevention, ActiveEDR, IoT security, and cloud workload protection powered by patented Behavioral AI. Security by design is the foundation with which Lenovo builds its ThinkShield portfolio, protecting customers with the most secure endpoint solutions. With today's announcement, SentinelOne is now a core component of Lenovo's ThinkShield security offerings, empowering workstations, servers, cloud workloads, and IoT devices to autonomously defend themselves in real-time. Its patented AI models live on each device, predicting tomorrow's attacks today and enabling devices to self-heal from any attack instantaneously.

Subrahmanyam Vempati, Co-Founder and CEO of Cuspera, popularly known as Subbu, said, "Cuspera is conceived based on the pain points I had personally faced as a Corporate VP at HP. My success was limited by our ability to find and deploy the right software in a continuously evolving business landscape. At Cuspera, we are on a mission to equip the business managers to digitally transform their businesses by enabling faster software selection." Accelerated business cycles and digital transformation pressures have compelled business managers to now make software purchase decisions frequently. In 2020, in marketing function alone, business managers are expected to spend upwards of $120 billion[1]. This is in spite of 94% of them abandoning their software buying effort in the past[2].

LONDON & ZURICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Finantix, the leading global provider of trusted technology to the wealth management, insurance and banking industries, today announced the execution of a binding agreement for the acquisition of InCube Group AG. The Zürich-based firm boasts an interdisciplinary team of Artificial Intelligence (AI) specialists, quant and software engineers and finance experts that provide data-driven, AI-enabled products and solutions to wealth management and insurance companies. Christine Ciriani, Chief Commercial Officer for Finantix, said: "We are excited to welcome InCube to the Finantix family, enhancing our AI-based insights and personalisation capabilities. This acquisition is a great fit as we share many values and have a common vision. First and foremost, a relentless focus on the need of our customers to leverage the growing amount of data available and the drive to transform this into actionable business insights. We believe that, by combining InCube's AI-based products, deep data science experience and domain expertise with Finantix's comprehensive offering, our customer-base will benefit from an enriched platform ready to accelerate their innovation capabilities in a data-driven era."

NEW YORK, March 10, 2020 /CNW/ -- Kasisto, creators of KAI - the financial services industry's leading digital experience platform has been named as one of Fast Company Most Innovative Companies (MIC) in the Artificial Intelligence Category. Fast Company, an award-winning magazine with over 10.6 million monthly visitors and 525k subscribers honors businesses that are having the most profound impact on both industry and culture, showcasing a variety of ways to thrive in today's fast-changing world. This year's MIC list features 434 businesses from 39 countries. Kasisto ranked in the top 10 of 50 vendors listed in the Artificial Intelligence category, and was recognized for its leading conversational AI technology and ability to provide financial institutions with the power to deliver unique and compelling digital experiences to their customers. "We are honored to receive this recognition from Fast Company and would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers from around the world and across the financial services industry. This award would not be possible without our customers support and commitment to work alongside us as we've delivered the industry's most powerful conversational AI technology, but more importantly, also delivered on our promise to make their customers digital experiences truly humanizing," says Zor Gorelov, CEO & Co-Founder of Kasisto.