GE was still essentially a startup when its managers hired young MIT chemistry professor Willis Whitney to open the company's first laboratory in 1900. Unlike Thomas Edison's Menlo Park "invention factory" in New Jersey, the place was a modest affair. It was located in a wooden barn behind the house of GE's resident polymath and engineering wizard Charles Steinmetz in Schenectady, New York, where GE co-founder Edison moved in the 1880s. The lab -- dedicated to "fundamental research" -- went up in flames the next spring, but Whitney's career and momentum continued. He rebuilt the lab and brought in researchers such as Nobel Prize-winning chemist Irving Langmuir.

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How can we encourage more young women to become involved in computer science? I think that there have been great strides in encouraging women and minorities to consider studying computer science. I see increased interest and participation among women and minorities in my community and it is encouraging, however, I also recognize that I live in a pretty unique place. My sister often tells me that her town just doesn't offer the same programs. To combat this type of challenge, I think we need to continue to normalize the idea of females in Computer Science and also expand the programs outside of big cities and academic towns.

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Earlier this month, Apple announced that it would allow its artificial intelligence researchers to publish research papers -- a major shift in the notoriously secretive company's policy. Now, just a few weeks later, the first of these papers has been made public on the preprint server arXiv. The paper -- titled "Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training"-- deals with intelligent image recognition technology. Specifically, it describes a technique that would enable a program to recognize and decipher computer-generated images. So far, this has not been possible because, as the researchers from Apple note, "synthetic data is often not realistic enough," and increasing the realism is "computationally expensive."

During the christmas vacation of 2015, I got a motivational boost again and decided try out Kaggle. So I spent quite some time experimenting with various algorithms for their Homesite Quote Conversion, Otto Group Product Classification and Bike Sharing Demand contests. The main takeaway from this was the experience of iteratively improving the results by experimenting with the algorithms and the data. I learned to trust my logic when doing machine learning. If tweaking a parameter or engineering a new feature seems like a good idea logically, it's quite likely that it actually will help.

Wearables today have become a statement of sorts and are on the way to becoming an indispensable part of our daily lives -- at home, on the go, at work. Blending in with almost everything in different ways -- as accessories, clothes, watches, bands, eye-wear and even jewelry, wearables are a mainstream technology fusing fashion and function. Though wearables were designed to complement the fitness industry, it now finds applications almost everywhere. Many industry sectors are now using wearables as a means of achieving an advantage -- a retailer using it to improve overall customer experience, an enterprise using it to improve the health and wellness of its employees, a manufacturer using hands free guidance systems to expedite production or in mining to alert the workforce of potential hazards. Popular market research reports predict that the overall market for wearable technology is expected to exceed 30B by 2020 (Source: IdTechEx).

Bart de Boer of the VUB Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Belgium then turned the information into a computer model that could predict and simulate a macaque's vocal range based on the physical attributes. Human speech stems from a source sound produced by the larynx that is changed by the positions of the vocal anatomy such as the lips and tongue. They found that a macaque could produce comprehensible vowel sounds -- and even full sentences -- with its vocal tract if it had the neural ability to speak. "This new result tells us that there's still a big mystery concerning where human speech came from," said Laurie Santos, a psychology professor at Yale University. "The paper opens whole new doors for finding the key to the uniqueness of humans' unparalleled language ability. "If a species as old as a macaque has a vocal tract capable of speech, then we really need to find the reason that this didn't translate for later primates into the kind of speech sounds that humans produce.

Eindhoven, Netherlands and Beijing and shenzhen, China and singapore - DECEMBER 27, 2016 - HERE, the Open Location Platform company, NavInfo Co., Ltd ("NavInfo"), a leading provider of digital maps and location services in China, and Tencent Holdings Limited ("Tencent"), a leading provider of Internet value added services in China, today announced their intention to form a strategic partnership to develop and offer best-in-class location services for the Chinese market. Aside from the planned strategic partnership, NavInfo, and Tencent, together with GIC, a leading global investment firm, also intend to jointly acquire a 10% stake in HERE, thereby further broadening the company's shareholder structure. The planned transaction would result in AUDI AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG reducing their indirect shareholding in HERE in equal measure. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017, subject to regulatory approvals. The planned formation of a joint venture in China: HERE and NavInfo intend to form a 50/50 joint venture in China enabling location services for Chinese and global customers across a range of industries.

The gaming sector has performed well in 2016, with many of the top names in the space, fromNintendo(NASDAQOTH: NTDOY) to chipmaker NVIDIA(NASDAQ: NVDA), posting solid returns.Well-received new content, impressive new technology, and renewed ideas about how to get both of those to consumers have helped the sector grow this year. Here were some of the winners in 2016, and what the future could hold for these companies. Forget GE! Heres how to play the largest growth opportunity in history Forget GE! Heres how to play the largest growth opportunity in history Though it was up around 80% before a mid-December sell-off, the company has still had a remarkable year. Nintendo's resurgence follows the company's decision to finally develop a mobile strategy and bring its timeless characters and stories into a modern age. Nintendo was one of the big winners with the Pokemon Go phenomenon that exploded worldwide this year, and the company announced a new game console called Switch to come out in 2017, which has helped to raise its stock price as well.