Guest blog by Kevin Gray.. Kevin is president of Cannon Gray, a marketing science and analytics consultancy. Regression is arguably the workhorse of statistics. Despite its popularity, however, it may also be the most misunderstood. The answer might surprise you: There is no such thing as Regression. The Dependent Variable is something you want to predict or explain.

Using artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity is gaining ground. Most IT leaders are looking at intelligent solutions, according to the May 2017 report "Next Generation Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations Survey." The survey was commissioned by DFLabs, a provider of security automation and orchestration technology, and researched by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "Most of the people [in the survey] were definitely saying that machine learning is something they're evaluating from a strong security standpoint," said Dario Forte, CEO of survey sponsor DFLabs. The report, based on a survey of 412 IT and cybersecurity professionals, found that 93% of IT leaders are using or planning to use these types of solutions: 12% of respondents have deployed machine learning technologies designed for security analytics and operations automation and orchestration; another 27% said they're doing so on a limited basis, while 22% said they're adding them.

Back issues are available on-line at www.aimagazine.org The purpose of AI Magazine is to disseminate timely and informative articles that represent the current state of the art in AI and to keep its readers posted on AAAI-related matters. Regular features in AI Magazine include feature articles, workshop, symposium, and conference summaries, book reviews, editorials, news about the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, letters to the editor, forum discussions, calendar of events, recruitment and product advertising, and columns on various topics including AI in the news. AI Magazine publishes original articles that are reasonably self-contained and aimed at a broad spectrum of the AI community. The magazine welcomes the contribution of articles on the theory and practice of AI as well as general survey articles, tutorial articles on timely topics, conference or symposia or workshop reports, and reviews of books.

Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test self-driving car technology, the companies said. Waymo and Lyft are joining forces against ridesharing giant Uber, which is racing to develop its own self-driving vehicles. Many other companies such as German carmaker Daimler and California-based Tesla have been stepping up efforts in autonomous driving in recent years. Waymo and Lyft are joining forces against ridesharing giant Uber, which is racing to develop its own self-driving vehicles. 'Waymo holds today's best self-driving technology, and collaborating with them will accelerate our shared vision of improving lives with the world s best transportation,' the Lyft statement read.

For the second year running, Google's massive I/O developer event will take place at the storied Shoreline Amphitheater, right around the corner from the company's Mountain View headquarters. Last year's conference had a host of major announcements worthy of such a high-profile venue -- it's where Google Home, the Google Assistant and the Daydream VR headset were all introduced. But this year, things seem like they'll be a little quieter, at least in terms of big consumer-facing hardware. It'll probably be a year of refinement, where big initiatives continue to be polished. We'll be there all three days this year, bringing you breaking news, analysis, interviews, videos and more.

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Statistica, a leader in data science. The acquisition will augment TIBCO's analytics product offerings, adding new capabilities aimed at making it easier for data scientists to unlock the power of machine learning and leverage it in a variety of applications, such as those analyzing the often large amounts of data produced in IoT systems. The transaction remains subject to customary conditions and is expected to close in the coming weeks. Statistica will enable users to more rapidly uncover insights from source data. It will also become part of the TIBCO Insight Platform to empower a broader audience of business users with these analytical capabilities and allow actions to be triggered in related systems, ensuring insights turn into the best outcomes for the business.

The technology world faces new trends frequently. New technologies typically promise to get things done faster, reduce costs, and open new market segments, thus improving the financials of a lot of firms. From Service-oriented Architecture to mobile and cloud computing, all of them stake their claim to deliver these benefits. However, the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will impact the world economy in a way that no technology in the past was able to. This is the core thesis of Martin Ford's 2015 book, 'The Rise of the Robots', sub-titled'Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment.'

Slated to hold its developer conference this week, Google is keeping up with the competition and bringing its artificial intelligence assistant to the iPhone, according to news reports. First reported by Android Police and confirmed by Bloomberg, Google is slated to bring its Assistant voice-powered assistant to the iPhone, as well as the company's existing Photos app and GE home appliances. Google I/O, where the company is expected to make the announcements, starts May 17. The Assistant is slated to be available in the App Store. Apple, which has its own virtual assistant, Siri, has been tight about allowing competing assistants on to its devices, but it has opened up the gates in recent months.

SYS-CON Events announced today that EARP Integration will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. EARP Integration is a passionate software house. Since its inception in 2009 the company successfully delivers smart solutions for cities and factories that start their digital transformation. EARP provides bespoke solutions like, for example, advanced enterprise portals, business intelligence systems and mobile applications for international enterprises across different sectors such as Energy and Utilities, GreenTech, MedTech, FinTech, Facility Management and Housing, Automotive Manufacturing, and Sport. EARP also cooperates with international software houses by providing them with highly qualified and well-selected, multilingual teams for bigger projects.

Digital Reasoning's Synthesys platform "learns human communication" to apply "human-like reasoning" to a firm's documents, emails, spreadsheets, social media and other forms of unstructured data. It can sift through text, audio and images and resolves who is talking about what and with whom. The system is designed to read through all of a firm's data and highlight the important people, places, organizations, events and facts discussed in those documents. From there, it takes those highlights and determines what's important by connecting those dots. Finally, Synthesys figures out what the final picture means to a portfolio manager or trader by comparing it with pre-determined opportunities, risk and anomalies.