Waltham, Massachusetts GTE LABORATORIES is the central corporate research and development facility for the sixty subsidiaries of the worldwide GTE corporation. Located in the Massachusetts Route 128 high technology area, the five laboratories that comprise GTE Laboratories generate the ideas, products, systems, and services that provide technical leadership for GTE. The two laboratories which conduct artificial intelligence research are the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) and the Fundamental Research Laboratory (FRL). Artificial Intelligence projects within the CSL are directed towards the research techniques used in expert systems, and their application to GTE products and services. AI projects within FRL have longer-term AI research goals.

Wal-Mart Stores (Bentonville, Ark.) has deployed an intelligent data-mining solution into its replenishment and decision support environment. The neural network-based software helps Wal-Mart refine store-item seasons and build more accurate predictive models for its computer-assisted replenishment systems. Stanford Telecom (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has added an intelligent agentbased component to its next-generation satellite communications monitoring systems. The systems will monitor satellite signals in near real time, alerting operators to out-of-tolerance conditions and the presence of unexpected signals. Home Automated Living (Dallas, Tex.) has integrated speech-recognition technology into its home-automation system, allowing users, by telephone, to deliver spoken commands to control their home systems.

Hitachi Data Systems (Santa Clara, CA) has added a download microcode enhancement to its Hi-Track expert system. The enhancement will allow Hi-Track to remotely identify and solve potential problems in a customer's storage subsystem, over the telephone. AT&T Network Systems (Oklahoma, OK) has developed System Test History Analysis, an expert system to lower circuit pack repair expenditures and to isolate and resolve intermittent problems prior to shipment to customers. The system reviews the test history on multiple switching module configurations of digital telecommunications systems equipment. The embedded system analyzes the competition's prices, compares them to Alamo's, and then suggests a suitable pricing alternative.

If you were hoping FCC Chairman Ajit Pai would answer for some of his policy decisions with his presence at CES... well, you'll be disappointed. The Consumer Technology Association has issued a brief statement saying that Pai is "unable to attend" CES 2018, where he was slated to participate in a "candid conversation" on January 9th. There's no reason given, and neither the CTA nor the FCC is willing to comment. However, it's odd to cancel at the last minute with no explanation. While it's possible that this could be related to personal matters or scheduling, it's easy to see at least one other reason. His crusade to kill net neutrality has been widely opposed by both the tech industry and the public, and he plowed forward with the plan despite ample evidence of comment fraud.

The product information contained in these sources frequently becomes obsolete and out of synch with the engineering drawings. Inaccurate orders, when combined with products that are so highly technical in nature, cause delays in order processing and manufacturing and can result in billing discrepancies. These operators were chosen at least in part to avoid intractability in the underlying subsumption algorithm (Levesque and Brachman 1987). In particular, the description language lacks true disjunction and has no way to express negation. Nevertheless, we have not encountered major problems when we encoded the product knowledge for our AT&T Network Systems products.

Visitors walk past a 5G logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, on March 1, 2017. Blistering fast wireless networks, digital assistants that are, well, everywhere, and a coming out bash for augmented reality. These and other technologies mentioned here, some of which are already familiar but really just getting started, are worth keeping an eye on in 2018. You can bet we'll also learn about innovations in the months to come that are for now, completely under the radar. Just about all the freshest developments will exploit advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, promising to allow the tech we engage in day to day to become that much more useful. We've been hearing about the next generation of speedy wireless or 5G for quite some time now, and 2018 is at least when some of you will begin to get a taste of what 5G potentially means.

My Maths tutor used to tell me as a child, "If you have spent two hours on 20 problems and you've solved all correctly, that's two hours wasted." We are intelligent species who should not be wasting our time doing redundant work for we are meant for better. This helps in explaining the doubtful existence of the fastest booming and most insecure topic of the 21st century -- artificial intelligence -- for the human mind seeks to create greater things to make life easier (or lazier). Technology has made a journey at the speed of light years. Coding smarter technologies is easier than waiting out the uncertainty of a cow's genetic evolution.

ZDNet's Sandra Vogel posted a formal review of the Huawei Mate 10 Pro, giving it an outstanding 9/10 rating. I've been spending quality time with this business-ready powerhouse and think that the AI found in the camera is worth discussing in a bit more detail. Huawei's partnership with Leica has resulted in some fantastic cameras and performance that is tough to beat. DxOMark awarded the Mate 10 Pro it second highest overall score, 97, and best still image score, 100. Keep in mind, these scores are not scaled to 100.

IBM WOW-World of Watson hit like a hurricane with exciting new products, partner solutions and a new view of the way we about "think" everything. Thomas J. Watson along with his father built IBM into the powerhouse and the legacy lives in their namesake of IBM Watson. One of the more interesting session was on Telecom. As a speaker on the session Peering Without into the Crystal Ball: Business and Technology Trends in Telecommunications I addressed many of the critical issues facing TSP-telecom service providers. Since you may know many of the concepts mention I present here more on cognitive computing.

A top Chinese drone manufacturer and a police-backed facial recognition firm are among dozens of companies set to receive state subsidies as China seeks to become a global powerhouse in internet technology, big data and artificial intelligence. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planning agency, said on Wednesday that 56 projects were in the first batch to receive the support in a key national scheme. They include "e-governance" systems developed by provincial authorities as well as drones and robots manufactured by private companies. The NDRC launched the national programme to promote what it described as "internet plus, artificial intelligence and the digital economy" with a call for submissions in October. The 56 projects are the first to qualify for the state support and will gain subsidies if there is no objection in the next week.