Today, ALTEN Calsoft Labs – An ALTEN Group Company, a leader in Technology Consulting and Product Engineering, has announced its partnership with a Machine Learning Company Bayestree Intelligence. The partnership will help transform and automate IT Service Management of ALTEN Calsoft Labs' enterprise customers based out of USA, Europe and Asia Pacific. ALEN Calsoft labs (ACL) is a digital transformation company leveraging AI, ML and IoT to create new solutions and services that are opening up business opportunities and creating new business models for customers. Bayestree has a unique product'Sentient' that assists Tier-1 product and business support teams, resolve customer issues automatically using advanced machine learning (ML) techniques. Sentient analyses historical data issues, passed resolutions as well as data collected from other related sources to learn, model and resolve. Sentient runs patent pending ML algorithms on customer's issues or ticket data to train its model that is capable of drawing inferences as well as making predictions.

The latest Fox News Poll finds that nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of current users say they care if Facebook shares their information with others, and a large 43 percent minority have thought about deleting their account in order to protect their privacy. Think about your interaction with Facebook as a relationship. Now, imagine being at dinner with someone new and they say they are recording the conversation, taking your fingerprints, tracking your movements and they are going to share all of that data with everyone--without your knowledge or consent. According to Matt Erickson, executive director at the Digital Privacy Alliance, that unpleasant scenario is what his colleagues are working against and what Europe's sweeping new privacy regulations taking effect on May 25 are meant to help prevent. During his recent Capitol Hill testimony, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company already has controls in place to comply with Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and told lawmakers they'd likely extend some of those protections to its 2.2 billion users globally.

At the Dell Technologies World the company continued its flash first, NVMe end-to-end, storage approach with its new products. The company was also incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities into its server and storage products. Michael Dell led an interesting announcement of new server and storage products that included applications for Dell products such as for New Jersey based AeroFarms factory farms and a doctor from USC talking about using Dell-based VR for treatment of PTSD. Dell introduced its Dell EMC PowerMax, which the company said it built for mission-critical applications and is engineered with end-to-end NVMe, ready for Storage Class Memory (SCM) and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF). . Dell says that they have a seamless migration path from the older VMAX product.

Google announced today that Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs are now available in public beta on its Google Cloud Platform (GCP), accessible through its infrastructure-as-a-service offering Compute Engine and on Kubernetes Engine, its managed environment for deploying containerized applications. The cloud giant also announced general availability of Nvidia's previous-generation P100 parts, in public beta on Google's platform since September 2017. The Tesla V100 is Nvidia's highest-end datacenter GPU, aimed at high-performance computing and machine learning workloads. The first product based on the Volta architecture, unveiled by Nvidia in May 2017, the Tesla V100 for NVLink offers 125 teraflops of mixed-precision floating point, 15.7 teraflops of single-precision floating point, and 7.8 teraflops of double-precision floating point performance. The NVLink 2.0 interconnect provides up to 300GB/s of GPU-to-GPU bandwidth, nearly 10x the data throughput offered by traditional PCIe, boosting performance on deep learning and HPC workloads by up to 40 percent, according to Nvidia.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has worked its way into a variety of industries, from the obvious (autonomous vehicles) to the hidden (anti-money laundering due diligence). But while organizations are clearly recognizing the value associated with incorporating AI into their business processes, they also are encountering a number of challenges with integrating this new intelligence into their operational processes. The value of using algorithms to unmask hidden patterns and then correlate findings with other seemingly unrelated variables to create real "intelligence" is becoming increasingly clear with each completed proof-of-concept (POC) project. But it is the larger, organization-wide deployment of AI that will generate the return on investment (ROI) that companies large and small have been seeking. To fully access the operational and economic benefits of AI, however, organizations are realizing that, in most cases, enabling AI is not a plug-and-play proposition.

Omnidya, the new platform making history by being the first to enable live negotiating in the service industry, will be exhibiting at Collision 2018. Omnidya uses artificial intelligence to create win-win scenarios between enterprises and consumers for deals on insurance, travel, wireless services, and more; enabling consumers to spend less time finding the most cost-effective option. Omnidya also takes customer care seriously, and aims to enhance customer engagement through AI. Their intelligent chatbot, Omnibot, provides around-the-clock assistance, answering questions and addressing concerns to provide the most positive experience possible for consumers. After a successful time exhibiting at SXSW, the company (which has been bootstrapped thus far) is looking forward to their initial fundraising round and forging more partnerships at Collision.

The telecommunication service provider industry is one of the biggest businesses in the world. It also has historically been a capital-intensive industry with high fixed costs, which has put pressure on telecom operators to control their variable costs, particularly human capital. This tension surrounding profitability is intensifying. Many telecom operators crossed the point where revenue per bit is lower than cost per bit in 2017. Telecom operators are threatened by fast and highly-efficient web-scale companies and are straining under the challenge posed by digital transformation.

"Our guiding principles are: Innovation, Collaboration, and Excellence," said Joel Amoussou, Founder and Director of Atlantic AI Labs . Mr. Amoussou has over 23 years of experience in providing consulting services to Fortune 500 companies in the US and Canada and is a member of the US-based Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The use of AI in healthcare will help alleviate the shortage of specialist physicians in Africa. For example, cancer incidence and mortality rates in Africa are increasing rapidly. AI can be used to analyze patients' clinical data and automatically deliver personalized care recommendations based on globally accepted evidence-based clinical practice guidelines while leveraging the widespread use of smartphones in Africa.

Zong Qinghou, the CEO of one of China's largest companies, announced plans to set up a research center at the University of Haifa focusing on artificial intelligence. The Chinese Academy of Sciences will also be a research partner.

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today announced a new capability designed to enhance protection against Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), this innovation will be integrated into multiple products to raise the alarm when emails are suspected of impersonating an executive or other high-profile user. "This is the first time I've seen email writing style analysis launched in our industry," said Michael Osterman at Osterman Research. "This is a compelling demonstration of AI being used for essential cybersecurity protection against today's most financially impactful attack vector – email." Trend Micro Writing Style DNA is a new layer of protection against BEC attacks, which uses AI to "blueprint" a user's style of writing, employing more than 7,000 writing characteristics.