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Star engineers to receive prestigious Academy Silver Medals - Royal Academy of Engineering
Three early-career engineers who are making a big difference in three very different areas of technology are to receive the Royal Academy's prestigious Silver Medal at the Academy Awards Dinner at the Tower of London on Thursday 23 June 2016. The Silver Medal celebrates outstanding personal contributions to UK engineering, which has resulted in successful market exploitation. Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FREng FRS, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, says: "Damian Gardiner, Demis Hassabis and Tong Sun have all demonstrated the power of use-inspired research in taking ideas they have developed in academia and applying them to solve real-world problems. They are working with colleagues all over the world and making an enormous impact early in their careers that is both enriching academic knowledge and generating real economic benefit for the UK." Dr Damian Gardiner is taking the world of product authentication by storm, with his Cambridge University start-up company ilumink Limited acquired by Johnson Matthey's Process Technologies Division in 2015. They were keen to adopt his unique method of printing'liquid crystal' material onto any surface using an ink-jet printer.
A.M. BestTV: Artificial Intelligence as an Insurance Disruptor? 'You Can Count on It,' Says Singularity's Jacobstein
OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In this A.M.BestTV episode, Neil Jacobstein, artificial intelligence and robotics co-chair, Singularity University, predicts a wave of change as web-based insurance competitors use intelligent automated systems to address risk in new ways. Click on http://www.ambest.com/v.asp?v jacobstein516 to view the entire program. "The insurance industry has been using artificial intelligence for over three decades," said Jacobstein. "They've used it in different forms, and it's gotten better and better. The underlying technology is now quite sophisticated but it's used actually throughout the industry." Jacobstein also believes that the usage of artificial intelligence is really something that will disrupt the industry over the next few years.
KnuEdge Accelerates Neural Computing With Introduction of KNUPATH LambdaFabric Processor Technology
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 6, 2016) - KnuEdge Inc., a neural technology innovation company that launched today, introduced its KNUPATH LambdaFabric processor technology enabling ground-breaking scalability, latency and workload performance in next-generation data centers. With a fundamentally different architecture than legacy products, KNUPATH can operate alone or be integrated with other devices, and it is available now to both end customers and technology vendors seeking to create data center neural computing capabilities to support advancements in machine learning, IoT and signal processing. "Many of today's CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs force system designers to either create workarounds with last-generation chip sets or reduce their requirements for advanced-compute projects," said Dan Goldin, Founder and CEO of KnuEdge. "After ten years of stealth development and rigorous testing, LambdaFabric enters the market as mature technology which enables system designers to meet the most demanding requirements now, and also helps them rethink what is possible with neural computing in the future." As evidenced by recent announcements such as Google's Tensor Processing Unit, there is increasing industry interest in targeted processor acceleration for machine learning and other growing workloads. KNUPATH LambdaFabric is inherently designed to scale up to 512,000 devices and beyond, and offers rack-to-rack latency of only 400 nanoseconds, approaching half the latency of existing high speed interconnects.
Chatbots will revolutionize conversation
Forget about interactive iPad newspapers, mobile apps and catchy television graphics. The future of news may be far less complicated than anyone could have imagined -- as simple as a conversation with a friend. We're on the cusp of a chatbot revolution, with tech giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft all competing to create the brainiest robotic agent powered by artificial intelligence. "We think you should be able to message a business in the same way you message a friend," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said, announcing the launch of a chatbot store during the social network's annual developers conference. "And you shouldn't have to install a new app."
BERG Announces Clinical Trial Data Presentations Of BPM 31510 In Advanced Solid Tumors And BPM
BERG will be presenting interim data from its ongoing Phase I study of BPM 31510 (IV) in advanced solid tumors, which demonstrates the promise of metabolically-driven therapy by reversing the Warburg phenotype in cancer. BPM 31510 (IV) is one of the first cancer drugs guided in development by artificial intelligence. BPM 31510 (IV) appears to reverse the compromised metabolism of cancer cells which normalizes the cancer microenvironment to induce cell death. BERG's Interrogative Biology platform was used in its BPM 31510 (IV) Phase I study to discover molecular markers identifying patients more likely to have clinical benefit to the treatment applying a precision medicine approach to the trial.
Vi Artificial Intelligence Personal Trainer Coaches You In Real-Time (video) - Geeky Gadgets
If like me you can do with a little help and motivation when it comes to exercising correctly, you might be interested in a new artificial intelligence personal trainer called Vi. Which has already raised over 250,000 by the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and still has 47 days left remaining on its campaign. Vi has been designed by LifeBEAM and comes in the form of an AI personal trainer that is incorporated into bios sensing earphones and is capable of helping you take the correct path to help keep your body fit and healthy. Vi will coach you in real-time using the data which is fed back through the headphones. Check out the video below to learn more about this very unique personal trainer.
Tribune Publishing changes its name to tronc, press unleash tronc-load of jokes
Tribune Publishing, the parent company that owns several storied and proud newspapers in the US including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, announced on Thursday that it would be changing its name to "tronc Inc." In a press release, the company said that tronc Inc would be "a content curation and monetization company focused on creating and distributing premium, verified content across all channels". The name, according to the release, is a shortening of Tribune Online Content. "tronc pools the company's leading media brands and leverages innovative technology to deliver personalized and interactive experiences to its 60m monthly users," the release continued, using the lower-case t despite the word coming at the beginning of the sentence. The release also announced the launch of "troncX", an "online curation and monetization engine" which utilizes artificial intelligence technology "to accelerate digital growth".
Inside Facebook's DeepText: Social network is using AI to help understand language on the site
Facebook has announced a deep-learning algorithm that can understand posts and messages with "near-human accuracy," according to the company's blog. While it's still in testing, DeepText can already analyse the textual content of several thousands posts in more than 20 different languages every second in order to understand what people mean when they post on Facebook. The company said that DeepText would improve people's experience of Facebook by delivering more of the content that they want to see while filtering out spam. But the deep-learning algorithm is even smarter than that โ DeepText has the potential to integrate intelligent search functions into Facebook in real time. One example Facebook gives is two people having a Messenger conversation about meeting up.
Global Artificial Intelligence Market Worth 23.4 Billion by 2025 - Identify Key Investment
The report estimates that the Global Artificial Intelligence Market will reach a value of 23.4 Billion by 2025. It focuses on market trends, leading players, supply chain trends, technological innovations, key developments, and future strategies. The report provides comprehensive market assessment across the major geographies such as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Latin America and Rest of the world. A details market analysis is included, with inputs derived from industry professionals across the value chain. A special focus has been made on 23 countries such as U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Germany, Spain, France, Italy, China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, etc.