Gordon's focus will be to rapidly grow nDimensional, an Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data and IoT application development platform provider, into a global brand by working with the executive team, clients and partners to create significant recurring economic value for every client. Gordon is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Katalyst, a strategic advisory firm, and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors for Zixi, a software platform that enables the media industry to broadcast quality live video over IP. Previously he served as President of C3 IoT. Gordon is a 5-time CEO and has founded, helped launch or transformed 8 companies, resulting in 2 IPO's with a combined market cap of over $11 billion, numerous entity sales totaling over $1 billion, 17 acquisitions and has served on 10 boards. "nDimensional is excited to have Gordon join the Board of Directors as our Chairman. He is deeply knowledgeable about the complex market for operationalizing AI and IoT software. He understands the strategies businesses must establish to be successful in this market. Gordon's experience in building and growing businesses will be an invaluable asset to nDimensional as we expand our market share."

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NCI, Inc., a leading provider of information technology and professional services and solutions to U.S. Federal Government agencies, today announced Brad Mascho has joined the company as chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). In this role, he is responsible for leading a new corporate division focused around artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives and strategy to accelerate, automate and augment repeatable processes for NCI's customers, quickly turning data into actionable intelligence. "NCI's purpose is to bridge the gap between commercial innovation and missions of national importance," said NCI CEO Paul Dillahay. "Being one of the first solution providers to add a CAIO is just another example of our commitment to innovation. Brad is the ideal visionary to help our clients realize the transformational impact happening at the intersection of AI, machine learning and predictive analytics. We are excited to add Brad's entrepreneurial spirit to our executive leadership team."

In the middle of this live stream image of the car, on the center screen, are the words'Don't Panic'. This a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the 1979 book that was first in a series by Douglas Adams about an accidental space traveler, Arthur Dent Two of the Falcon Heavy's reusable boosters - both recycled from previous launches - returned minutes after lift-off for on-the-mark touchdowns at Cape Canaveral. Sonic booms rumbled across the region with the synchronised vertical landings. However, the craft's third and final booster missed its target - a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean - by about 328 feet (100 metres). In a press conference after the historic launch, Musk said early reports show the rocket's central core'hit the water at 300 miles per hour (480kph) and sprayed the drone ship with shrapnel'.

Fears of AI in Healthcare: The survey indicates that the top two fears patients and caregivers have when it comes to artificial intelligence are lack of human oversight and the potential for machine errors leading to mismanagement of their health. No Substitute for Your Doctor: When it comes to the possibilities of doctors being replaced by algorithms or robots, fears are clearly evident with fewer than 20 percent of patients surveyed perceiving any benefit to their future healthcare in receiving diagnosis or treatment recommendations from a virtual assistant. Strong Comfort in Using AI to Scale and Support Nurses: Switch the focus to the critical role played by nurses in supporting patients, and a different picture emerges. The number one benefit is seen as 24x7 on-demand access to answers and support, followed by monitoring for their general health and wellness, or for questions around a specific medication they've been prescribed. A'realistic voice' with a professional, warm and empathetic tone is seen as appealing by 72 percent - more important than a human name, face or gender.

In this project, you will implement value iteration and Q-learning. You will test your agents first on Gridworld (from class), then apply them to a simulated robot controller (Crawler) and Pacman. As in previous projects, this project includes an autograder for you to grade your solutions on your machine. See the autograder tutorial in Project 0 for more information about using the autograder. Files to Edit and Submit: You will fill in portions of valueIterationAgents.py, qlearningAgents.py,

Dan Gailey, CEO and founder of San Francisco artificial intelligence startup Synapse.ai and visionary behind its Decentralized Data and AI Marketplace, today announced via the Synapse.ai Telegram channel (https://t.me/synapseico) the official commencement of the Synapse.ai Investors can invest in Synapse.ai The Synapse.ai Tier 2 SYN token sale follows the company's February 5 - 11 whitelist private token sale, which attracted more than US$7 million in investment in less than ten days. Gailey announced that the Tier 2 token sale soft cap is $1.5 million USD, and the hard cap is $15 million USD.

The new capital arrives a few months after Humatics announced an $18 million Series A funding round. The Boston-based firm was one of the early companies to participate in the STEX25 startup accelerator program at MIT. (Humatics is another company that has received support from the initiative, according to the STEX25 website.) The Toro Company, the Minnesota-based maker of lawn mowers and other equipment, bought a minority stake in GreenSight Agronomics, a Boston drone startup serving the agricultural sector. Meanwhile, Radian Capital made a growth equity investment in Boston-based retail software company Blueday, which also named former Salesforce executive Graeme Grant as its CEO. The company's founding CEO, serial entrepreneur Dave Balter, shifted to the role of chairman in November in part so he could focus on his latest venture, Flipside Crypto.

Newswire) 8x8, Inc. (NYSE:EGHT), a leading provider of global cloud communications and customer engagement solutions, today announced key appointments to accelerate the company's Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning capabilities, and expand its human resources organization globally. The team will lead the company's efforts to leverage big data, analytics and machine learning to allow companies to gain deep, actionable insights and improve customer experiences. Dr. Ali Arsanjani was formerly the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Analytics and Machine Learning at Deep Context, a deep-learning startup. Prior to Deep Context, he was a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for Analytics and Machine Learning at IBM. Ali was responsible for worldwide enablement of highly customized solutions that combined real-time, unstructured content and structured analytics and machine learning to solve customer's complex problems while at IBM. He is a recognized authority in the AI industry and has chaired and participated in numerous machine learning research bodies, including The Open Group, and is responsible for co-leading the SOA Reference Architecture, SOA Maturity Model and Cloud Computing Architecture standards.

RapidMiner, the company that delivers real data science, fast and simple, today announced the immediate availability of RapidMiner 8.1 and RapidMiner Auto Model, a new addition to RapidMiner Studio that accelerates everything data scientists do when building machine learning models. "Automated machine learning promised data scientists a better, faster way to build models, but the reality never matched the hype," said Dr. Ingo Mierswa, founder and president of RapidMiner. When I looked closely at automated machine learning solutions, I found them to be black boxes. They restricted my ability as a data scientist to understand how the models worked and tune them when necessary. We built Auto Model on top of RapidMiner Studio to improve the productivity of data scientists without hiding the ability to understand how and why a model works. As data scientists need to tune or tweak models, they have the full power of the RapidMiner Studio visual workflow designer at their disposal."

In the middle of this live stream image of the car, on the center screen, are the words'Don't Panic'. This a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the 1979 book that was first in a series by Douglas Adams about an accidental space traveler, Arthur Dent Two of the Falcon Heavy's reusable boosters - both recycled from previous launches - returned minutes after lift-off for on-the-mark touchdowns at Cape Canaveral. Sonic booms rumbled across the region with the synchronised vertical landings. However, the craft's third and final booster missed its target - a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean - by about 328 feet (100 metres). In a press conference after the historic launch, Musk said early reports show the rocket's central core'hit the water at 300 miles per hour (480kph) and sprayed the drone ship with shrapnel'.