DEDHAM, MA--(Marketwired - May 17, 2016) - Rage Frameworks, a provider of knowledge-based automation technology and services, today announced that it will attend MIT Technology Review's fourth annual West Coast Emerging Digital Technologies (EmTech Digital) Conference, which brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, business leaders and venture capitalists to examine what's next for artificial intelligence across professional industries. The event will explore the latest research on artificial intelligence techniques, including deep learning and speech and image recognition, that are providing machines with valuable new capabilities and making the automation of more business decisions possible. Rage Frameworks' CEO Dr. Venkat Srinivasan will present "AI in the Enterprise" at the EmTech Digital Conference, where he will outline how artificial intelligence is already impacting daily lives and the ways in which Rage's traceable deep learning technology, RAGE AI, is helping global financial services, consumer products and manufacturing firms overcome business problems faster than ever. RAGE AI enables intelligent systems with end-to-end knowledge-based automation including contextual, traceable deep learning. Where natural language is involved, using deep linguistic parsing and proprietary linguistics-based innovations it enables the understanding of the real meaning of documents and interprets them as a human would.

When humans have a bad attitude, their canine companions might not be so quick to follow their lead. In a recent study, researchers conducted a series of experiments to see the effects of human emotions on a dog's response to pointing cues. While adding a positive expression to the gesture wasn't found to increase a dog's ability to locate a treat, the dogs hesitated before exploring when responding to a person with a negative disposition. When humans have a bad attitude, their canine companions might not be so quick to follow their lead. In a recent study, researchers found that adding a positive expression to pointing didn't increase a dog's ability to locate a treat, but the dogs hesitated before exploring when responding to a person with a negative disposition Researchers studied the response of dogs to an unfamiliar adult gesturing toward two covered bowls.

Looking after helpless babies may have been the key in humans developing bigger brains and ultimately helped us become smarter. A new study suggests the demands of intensive child-rearing set in motion a runaway feedback loop, acting as a driver for human intelligence. Researchers claim that intelligent parents give rise to larger brained babies, which need to be born earlier in order to pass safely through the birth canal and survive. Researchers suggest the demands of intensive child-rearing set in motion a runaway feedback loop, acting as a driver for human intelligence. Premature babies are more dependent at birth, so need more intelligent parents to take care of them and so on, all of which has led to human level intelligence.

We're proud to be supporting the new developer survey run by our friends at VisionMobile. This is the 11th developer survey and it's entitled Developer Tools Benchmarking – as you can understand, the focus is on developer tools. The survey features questions on topics like programming languages, platforms, app categories, tool categories, revenue models, IoT verticals. This year, they have included specific survey questions on Machine Learning tools such as BigML as a new area to explore. It's a survey made by developers, for developers – so the questions are very relevant. Whether you're looking to share your thoughts with the dev community, find out something new, contribute to the leading developer research – or win a great prize – this is the survey for you.

Earlier this year, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering's (IEEE) published "AI's 10 to Watch" – a list of 10 people who are doing phenomenal work in the field of artificial intelligence. A Pakistani researcher Haris Aziz, who had graduated from LUMS, had his name published in this prestigious list for his work in the field related to computational social choice, an intersection between artificial intelligence and economics. Its seems that was just the beginning of the road for Haris Aziz, who is now back in the news for solving an'unsolvable' mathematical situation. Who will get the larger share of the profit from a business? Shall it be equally allocated or otherwise? Perhaps its your child's birthday and its time to cut and divide the cake in a way that none of the children gets sad by his/her share?

Overwatch sounds like a game I shouldn't want to play: a hero-focused team shooter that seems aimed at players given to godlike acts of ballistic skill. But I should know better. This is Blizzard we're talking about, after all, a studio that turned a generic fantasy-verse born from a niche real-time strategy game into a global online roleplaying sensation. After chatting with Overwatch co-director Jeffrey Kaplan, I'm almost convinced it's a game for me--the sort of lapsed, Quake-era clanner who has lost interest in competitive shooters. Here, by way of our lightly edited conversation, is a rundown of why.

U.S. consumers still resist the notion of self-driving cars, according to a University of Michigan study released on Monday, the latest sign that investors and automakers may be rushing into a business where demand is limited at best. General Motors Co's recent acquisition of Silicon Valley startup Cruise Automation for a reported 1 billion has accelerated a stampede by other automakers, suppliers and venture capital firms looking to invest in or acquire new companies developing self-driving technology. Consumers, meanwhile, remain concerned about aspects of self-driving technology and "overwhelmingly" still want the ability to manually control a self-driving vehicle, the study said. "The most frequent preference for vehicle automation continues to be for no self-driving capability," said the study's authors, Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak. The survey results are consistent with those in a similar survey that the university conducted a year ago and generally mirror the findings in a study that the American Automobile Association released in March.

This five-fingered robot hand developed by University of Washington computer science and engineering researchers can learn how to perform dexterous manipulation -- like spinning a tube full of coffee beans -- on its own, rather than having humans program its actions. A University of Washington team of computer scientists and engineers has built what they say is one of the most highly capable five-fingered robot hands in the world. It can perform dexterous manipulation and learn from its own experience without needing humans to direct it. Their work is described in a paper to be presented May 17 at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. "Hand manipulation is one of the hardest problems that roboticists have to solve," said lead author Vikash Kumar, a UW doctoral student in computer science and engineering. "A lot of robots today have pretty capable arms but the hand is as simple as a suction cup or maybe a claw or a gripper."

It was reported that Hewlett-Packard Co. said it will cut 25,000 to 30,000 more jobs as part of a 2.7 billion restructuring September 15, 2015. PC company HP Inc. will report earnings after the bell Wednesday. Meanwhile, Microsoft wrapped a major deal involving the hit game Minecraft. The personal computer company will report second quarter results when the markets close Wednesday. Analysts polled by S&P Global Market Intelligence project earnings of 38 cents a share on 11.7 billion in revenue.

Recently, the social media giant Facebook has also jumped on the bot development bandwagon. There is no exaggeration in saying that bots will be an integral part of apps interface and revolutionize the way of using both web and mobile apps in the future. At this point, it is interesting to link bots with Artificial Intelligence (AI), as bot development is the first step toward this groundbreaking technology. We can imagine new apps economy as a combination of bots, automation, and cross-platform frameworks. In a way, machine learning and connectivity concepts are going to take center stage.