Lee Painter says a rise in security breaches due to abuse of access has put the spotlight on Identity and Access Management. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is already a key weapon in the security arsenal of many organisations as a way to mitigate against data breaches and manage the additional risks that come with remote working and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). And the take up of IAM solutions is set to gain even more momentum. A recent MarketsandMarkets research report predicted that the global market for these solutions will grow to US 12.8 billion ( 9.7 billion) by 2020, up from US 7.2 billion ( 5.4 billion) in 2015. IAM solutions enable a network or system to authenticate the identity of a user against a set of pre-prescribed credentials.

Drones will give firefighters real-time information about an emergency. The New York City Fire Department is about to debut a drone that, appropriately, is painted fire engine red. The aircraft will soon be responding to fires and other emergencies, giving firefighters a clearer view of what they are facing. The LiveSky drone, created by Hoverfly, weighs eight pounds, can capture both video and infrared images and costs 85,000. New York City's landscape is filled with obstacles, and can pose a challenge for the drone's GPS as it tries to get reception.

Intel has many disparate business units doing their own thing. The challenging task of tethering them is a top priority for Intel's second-in-command, Venkata Renduchintala. Renduchintala, known as Murthy, was appointed last November to run Intel's PC, client, and internet of things businesses. He's made his presence felt: Within six months of his appointment, Intel cut struggling products like mobile CPUs and sharpened its focus on growth areas of IoT, servers, and connectivity. One common thread in all the areas of growth is connectivity, with modems and wireless products now as important to Intel as its CPUs.

Transport ministers from the Group of Seven countries are expected to agree at their meeting in central Japan to set up a working panel tasked with creating global safety regulations for commercializing and promoting self-driving cars, a draft declaration of their summit showed Thursday. The envisaged accord at their three-day meeting in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, from Sept. 23, comes amid intense competition among automakers and information technology companies worldwide over self-driving cars. In the draft declaration, the G-7 ministers pledge to cooperate and exercise their leadership, reflecting the advanced economies' hope that regulations set by the governments would give clear guidelines for manufacturers on how to ensure safety for self-driving cars. Autonomous driving, which frees drivers from controlling a vehicle, involves artificial intelligence technology in grasping the surrounding traffic situation. The draft says commercializing self-driving will help prevent traffic accidents, ease traffic jams and reduce the burden on drivers.

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Intel acquires eight-year previous startup Movidius to position itself because the leader in pc vision and depth-sensing technologies. No, this can be not the start of a Terminator-esque world. But yes, it definitely may be a begin of major developments in pc vision and machine learning technology. Intel is intent to spice up its RealSense platform by effort Dublin-based pc vision startup Movidius. With Intel's existing framework, plus Movidius' power-efficient system on chip (SoC), the pairing is guaranteed to result in major developments in shopper and enterprise merchandise.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in compute, storage, networking technologies and green computing today announced the general availability of its SuperServer solutions optimized for NVIDIA Tesla P100 accelerators with the new Pascal GPU architecture. Supermicro's innovative and GPU optimized single root complex PCI-E design is proven to dramatically improve GPU peer-to-peer communication efficiency over QPI and PCI-E links, with up to 21% higher QPI throughput and 60% lower latency compared to previous generation products. "Our high-performance computing solutions enable deep learning, engineering, and scientific fields to scale out their compute clusters to accelerate their most demanding workloads and achieve fastest time-to-results with maximum performance-per-watt, per-square-foot, and per-dollar," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "With our latest innovations incorporating the new NVIDIA P100 GPUs, our customers can accelerate their applications and innovations to solve the most complex real world problems." "Supermicro's new high-density servers are optimized to fully leverage the new NVIDIA Tesla P100 accelerators to provide enterprise and HPC customers with an entirely new level of computing horsepower," said Ian Buck, General Manager of the Accelerated Computing Group at NVIDIA.

Time series machine learning techniques show great promise for the analysis of health care wearable data. As our busy lifestyles render continuous monitoring more and more essential, the need to analyze data to find correlations between these data streams becomes even more important, because they can provide important cues to people. These cues could be as simple as reminding a person to take a walk or move around, which is already being done by a lot of wearables available today, such as Fitbit, Garmin, Nike, etc. However, along with monitoring the current state of an individual, these popular devices are not able to perform the complex predictions that correlate the captured information to make sense at a higher level or provide causal relationships between the data. My research aims to develop advanced algorithms for analyzing time series data for estimation and prediction of physiological parameters (such as heart rate or respiration rate using kinematic and physiological data).

For decades, science fiction authors, futurists, and movie makers alike have been predicting the amazing (and sometimes catastrophic) changes that will arise with the advent of widespread artificial intelligence. So far, AI hasn't made any such crazy waves, and in many ways has quietly become ubiquitous in numerous aspects of our daily lives. From the intelligent sensors that help us take perfect pictures, to the automatic parking features in cars, to the sometimes frustrating personal assistants in smartphones, artificial intelligence of one kind of another is all around us, all the time. While we've yet to create self-aware robots like those that pepper popular movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars, we have made smart and often significant use of AI technology in a wide range of applications that, while not as mind-blowing as androids, still change our day-to-day lives. One place where artificial intelligence is poised to make big changes (and in some cases already is) is in education.

International firm Reed Smith expects to make greater use of artificial intelligence technology for transactional work following a successful pilot in its London office. After using AI technology for a real estate matter, chief knowledge officer Lucy Dillon (pictured) said the firm will definitely be using it again. 'I think we will be using [the technology] more widely as it lends itself to any transaction where you are reviewing large reams of documents,' she added. The firm tested a'cognitive computing platform' developed by software provider RAVN Systems. The software was used to read, interpret and extract key provisions from a client's leases. It then produced a review identifying higher-risk leases that required further inspection.