Emotions tend to run high in hospitals, and patients or patients' loved ones can be rude to medical professionals when they perceive inadequate care. But berating your child's doctor could have harmful -- even deadly -- consequences, according to new research. The findings by University of Florida management professor Amir Erez and doctoral student Trevor Foulk reinforce their prior research that rudeness has "devastating effects on medical performance," Erez said. A Johns Hopkins study estimated that more than 250,000 deaths are attributed to medical errors in the U.S. annually--which would rank as the third-leading cause of death in the U.S., according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some errors could be explained by a doctor's poor judgment due to a chronic lack of sleep.

A question I am often asked is, "Why did you get out of your comfort zone?" By any which yardstick, I ought to have stuck to honing my skills as a journalist and a writer. To which my simple answer is: "Because if I didn't, I'd be obsolete before I hail the next Uber." Uber is the new F-word. That if we don't take cognizance of entities like Uber and the forces that are shaping it, it is only a matter of time before a lot many of our livelihoods will be obsolete. To most people who've grown watching businesses evolve, this company makes no sense. I mean, come to think of it, what is it? An app that resides on my phone and allows me to hail taxis from wherever I am. And by all accounts, is one of the most unprofitable start-ups the world has ever seen. But for whatever strange reason, it is among the most valuable and sought after. But users like you and me are enamoured by it; traditional service providers don't know how to deal with it; policymakers have no clue what sense to make of this animal; and it is just but one metaphor for how the world is changing dramatically--India included. I touched upon how it is just one among the many things changing dramatically and how the ground beneath India's feet is shifting on Founding Fuel, the platform I co-founded. Why does it concern me?

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– NEW RELIC FUTURESTACK – Digital intelligence leader New Relic, Inc. (NYSE:NEWR) today shared a preview of its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, code-named "Project Seymour," at the company's fourth annual FutureStack event in San Francisco. Project Seymour is designed to deliver advanced AI and machine learning capabilities to help companies uncover the most interesting, most relevant, and most actionable insights to improve their customer experience, and the performance and availability of their digital initiatives. "Our customers have increasingly complex systems and often struggle to understand all of the facets of what's going on in their customer experience, in their applications, and in their infrastructure. Seymour is another manifestation of New Relic's continued obsession to make it easy for our customers to understand everything going on in their digital business," said Lew Cirne, CEO and founder, New Relic. "New Relic has a unique opportunity to leverage the power of AI because our cloud-based platform already analyzes billions of metrics for our customers every day. We simply do not believe you can get the same benefits from on-premise solutions because you wouldn't have enough data to uncover the same meaningful insights."

To some, he was the voice of Rodimus Prime on the mid-1980s animated TV show "The Transformers," or Serpentor on the animated "G.I. But for baby boomers, Dick Gautier was best known for his deadpan performance as Hymie the robot in the '60s spy spoof "Get Smart." The actor died Friday, according to a Facebook post by Tess Hightower, his third wife. Gautier's daughter Denise told the Hollywood Reporter that he passed away at an assisted living facility in Arcadia after a long illness. Gautier earned a Tony nomination for his performance as Conrad Birdie, an Elvis Presley-esque singer, in the original Broadway production of "Bye, Bye Birdie," which also starred Dick Van Dyke. Born in Culver City, Gautier began his show business career as a comedian and was spotted performing at a New York club by renowned dancer-choreographer Gower Champion, who urged him to audition for "Bye, Bye Birdie." Though he made only six appearances on "Get Smart," his character, Hymie, a robot with superhuman strength and intelligence but a tendency to interpret commands in an overly literal fashion, became a fan favorite. He reprised the role in the 1989 made-for-TV movie "Get Smart, Again!" Gautier also starred as Robin Hood in the Mel Brooks series "When Things Were Rotten" and on multiple episodes of the anthology comedy series "Love, American Style." He was a fixture on the talk- and game-show circuit of the 1970s, appearing on "Password," "Tattletales," "Match Game," "Dinah!" and "Hollywood Squares," among others. Gautier also published several books about caricature drawing, and a children's book called "A Child's Garden of Weirdness." Gautier became popular to a younger generation through his voiceover work. Joe," and "Transformers," he voiced dozens of animated characters on "Duck Tales," "Cow and Chicken" and many more.

Descriptions are often provided along with recommendations to help users' discovery. Recommending automatically generated music playlists (e.g. personalised playlists) introduces the problem of generating descriptions. In this paper, we propose a method for generating music playlist descriptions, which is called as music captioning. In the proposed method, audio content analysis and natural language processing are adopted to utilise the information of each track.

Artificial intelligence has wide-reaching implications across all aspects of the business, and now some leaders in the field advocate for this technology to be represented in the C-suite by a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Andrew Ng, a renowned A.I. researcher and thought leader, recently made that argument in Harvard Business Review article titled "Hiring Your First Chief A.I. Officer." Summarizing his case, Ng wrote, "The benefit of a chief A.I. officer is having someone who can make sure A.I. gets applied across silos." Since every aspect of a business involves the collection and use of data for competitive advantage, a CAIO could look across an organization and assess how different business units can work together to create new competitive advantages. Matthew Buskell, head of sales and business development at Rainbird Technologies, makes a similar case about the cross-functional impact of A.I. in a post on the Rainbird blog titled "Should There be a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer?"

Microsoft's Cortana AI bot is known for dealing with customer service enquiries – but it goes much further than that. The artificial intelligence technology is being applied in a great variety of ways at huge companies such as Volvo. Chris Testa-O'Neill of Microsoft's data science team demonstrated the Cortana Intelligence Suite at SpaceportX in Manchester's Northern Quarter this week. Speaking at the first of a series of regular business intelligence and data meetups organised by Travel Counsellors, he discussed subjects such as machine learning – which the CIS can perform – with a captive audience. We spoke to him afterwards to get the lowdown on what the Big Data and advanced analytics suite can do for firms large and small.

Although 42% of respondents to a Tech Pro Research survey said their company lacks the skills necessary to implement and support AI and machine learning, and only 28% said they had firsthand experience with the technology, 50% said their companies will adopt these within the next few years. Almost as many respondents said all the implementation and support work would be done in house when the time comes, and that their company is working to address AI and machine learning in the corporate security plan. Among companies currently using, or planning to use AI or machine learning, the top uses were research and consumer analysis. Further down the list, those currently using AI or machine learning were more interested in uses like fraud detection and market analysis, while those still in the planning stages were interested in security monitoring and office automation. For more data and analysis on corporate preparedness and uses for AI and machine learning, plus information on vendor selection, download the full report: AI and machine learning in the enterprise: Uses, organizational readiness and vendor choices.

The 20th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Machine Learning and WebRTC to one location. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @CloudExpo @ThingsExpo, June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY and October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA.

In the next three to five years, organizations will see an unprecedented amount of disruption with the advancement of cognitive computing. And the pace of technological change isn't set to slow down any time soon. Communicate Influence speaks to Nigel Willson, a Global Strategist with Microsoft UK, about cognitive computing. Cognitive computing is set to have a massive impact on how businesses and individuals perform transactions, communicate, and interact with the world around them. Companies will face immense pressure to keep with technological change as software developments move ahead at warp speed.