Picking up steam in 1997 with Intel opening of a microchip factory and an $800 million USD investment, Costa Rica has since blossomed into a key tech hub in Latin America, according to an article from Nearshore Americas. But leaving the landmark Intel investment aside (the factory is now closed), the country is fostering growth through government spending in the space, high public funds devoted to education and tax-friendly technology parks that attract investors and talent from around the globe. With a population of five million inhabitants and 51,000 square kilometers, the number of companies in the country has reached over 546 IT companies, 3,447 manufacturing (including medical components), and performed 12,281 various commercial activities by 2018. This activity generated over 300,000 jobs, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census. One of the major fields in the current technological revolution is artificial intelligence (AI), of which a high amount of development is occurring in Costa Rica.

GREENSBORO, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dais X, a leading digital transformation partner to middle-market companies, today announces that it intends to merge its consulting and software product development platform with Dais AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) company purpose-built to help clients capitalize on digital business opportunities through the development of custom AI solutions and technologies. "As shown by our steady growth over the past three years, Dais X continues to gain momentum, marked by strong progress on our strategic initiatives and client successes," said Neal Davis, President and Chief Executive Officer. "With these foundations in place, we are now ideally positioned to merge with Dais AI and create one leading company. In alignment with our strategic plan, the decision to combine these businesses will allow Dais X to sharpen its focus as a leading digital transformation partner to middle-market companies." Dais X believes the merger will sharpen the company's focus as a leading digital transformation partner, encouraging long-term revenue growth and margin expansion.

Horizons ETFs Management Canada Inc. is recalibrating its artificial intelligence (AI) exchange-traded fund (ETF) after a year of underperformance that was a "complete disappointment," according to the provider's chief executive officer. The Horizons Active A.I. Global Equity ETF (MIND), which uses a proprietary AI-directed selection process to invest in major global equity indexes through a basket of ETFs, has trailed the market over the past year, down 1.04 per cent on a return basis, versus a positive total return, in Canadian dollar terms, of 5.76 per cent for the MSCI World Index. "We have been looking at MSCI World, and we're significantly underperforming on a year-to-date basis," Horizons Canada CEO Steve Hawkins said. "When we first launched this product, we had very high hopes. People would ask how well this could outperform the market. All the back-testing we did provided us with a lot of comfort that an unbiased AI system making investment management decisions would outperform the market when you're dealing with a lot of investor bias."

GreenWaves Technologies (GreenWaves), a fabless semiconductor start-up designing disruptive ultra-low-power AI embedded processors for battery-operated edge devices, announced today that it has been named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" based on the April 29, 2019 report "Cool Vendors in AI Semiconductors," authored by Alan Priestley, VP Analyst, and Saniye Alaybeyi, Senior Director Analyst. The report states, "[t]he deployment of products with AI capabilities continues to gain momentum but requires increasingly sophisticated semiconductor devices to enable this new generation of smart things. This report highlights three semiconductor vendors delivering innovative AI-enabled chips to facilitate this trend." GreenWaves Technologies, and its flagship GAP8 IoT application processor, is listed as one of these three vendors. "We believe that Gartner's Cool Vendor reports represent some of the most cutting-edge, innovative and pioneering brands and technologies. We also believe that to be included as a Cool Vendor in AI Semiconductors is a true testament to GAP8 and the company's commitment to delivering AI at the very edge," said Loic Lietar, GreenWaves' co-founder and CEO.

COPENHAGEN MUMBAI, October 07, 2019: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been selected by Pandora, a world-leading jewellery design and manufacturer, based in Copenhagen, as a strategic IT partner. The agreement with TCS marks a major milestone in Pandora's global IT transformation, which is part of Programme NOW, the company's brand relaunch and business turnaround plan. TCS will leverage its proven Machine First Delivery Model (MFDM), powered by ignio, its award-winning cognitive automation software, to enable the digital transformation. As the service integrator and manager, TCS will be responsible for the applications landscape and the end-user management, that will be aligned to Pandora's key business metrics. Peter Cabello Holmberg, CIO, Pandora, said, "Our agreement with TCS marks an important milestone for Pandora. Now we have our future-ready IT setup fully in place to support the Programme NOW objectives. And I am convinced that TCS with its global scale, retail expertise and cutting-edge solutions in relation to automation and AI will prove a perfect match for Pandora."

TUM has been studying the complex interactions of science, technology and society since 2012 through the work of the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), which was established under the 2012 Excellence Initiative. As part of the MCTS, the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI) will focus on ethical implications of artificial intelligence. The US company Facebook is supporting this TUM initiative by a 6.5 million euro donation not subject to any conditions or expectations. At today's opening symposium for the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI) at TUM, Dorothee Bär, the Federal Government Commissioner for Digital Affairs, said: "To some extent, machine learning algorithms are already playing a role in choosing the news articles we read. But the possible applications extend far beyond that, for example into such areas as medical diagnostics. These far-reaching technological changes raise many ethical issues. It is a good thing that TUM is getting involved in addressing these issues."

Adobe Analytics announced today that it will use its Adobe Sensei AI platform to help fans with their fantasy football teams during the 2019 NFL Season. Of all the technological advancements in the sports world, it can be argued that the most impactful innovations in the foreseeable future will be automated insights (AI) and machine learning (ML), changing the way front offices make player decisions and business operations departments make fan experience decisions. Data is also creeping into other facets of sports, especially with the steady march into the mainstream of gambling and daily fantasy sports. As applications of AI and ML expand into the sports world, a number of companies are looking to take advantage of its burgeoning impact. One of these companies, Adobe, has moved into the sports world and is, today, announcing a new initiative, just as the NFL season is beginning.

The "ICART 2020 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The purpose of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Two simultaneous related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work. One track focuses on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general. The other track focuses mainly on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception Reactive AI Systems, and Evolutionary Computing and other topics related to Intelligent Systems and Computational Intelligence.

A study co-written by a Southwest Research Institute scientist describes a new algorithm that combines the capabilities of two spacecraft instruments, which could result in lower cost and higher efficiency space missions. The virtual "super instrument," is a computer algorithm that utilizes deep learning to analyze ultraviolet images of the Sun, taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, and measure the energy that the Sun emits as ultraviolet light. "Deep learning is an emerging capability that is revolutionizing the way we interact with data," said Dr. Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo, senior research scientist at SwRI. Muñoz-Jaramillo co-authored the study, published this month in Science Advances, alongside collaborators from nine other institutions as part of NASA's Frontier Development Laboratory. The laboratory is an applied artificial intelligence research accelerator that applies deep learning and machine learning techniques to challenges in space science and exploration.

The "ICAART 2020 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. With the help of artificial intelligence-powered services and tools, the heritage sector is working towards the next level of access to and (re)use of digitized collections. In recent years libraries, archives and museums have started to apply machine learning and advanced knowledge bases to contextually enrich digitized objects, audio-visual content, and texts and to make these retrievable in novel ways. In doing so institutions aim to increase the impact of their collections among a growing and diversifying audience. This special session welcomes papers that reflect upon, discuss and present the technical and societal challenges (e.g.