Coleman's work with low-dimensional nanostructures, as well as Nicolosi's in the field of battery development, bring 2D materials to the fore. Plummeting production costs mean that such 2D materials are emerging with a wide range of applications. Thomas Swann, for example, produces materials in commercial quantities, though the research in Ireland would largely relate to smaller measurements.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the buzzword of this decade. Google, Facebook, Twitter and IBM are acquiring companies and people as fast as they can. Computer Vision is one of the core focus areas. Vision is perhaps one of the most difficult problems to solve in AI, and as you might have guessed, it is currently unsolved. Neural Networks, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have become very popular. Almost everyone (except a few companies like Vicarious) is using CNN's for Image recognition. From last few years, Stanford hosts the "ImageNet" challenge for visual recognition.

Once awhile ago, in a usual busy work morning, I was pulled into meeting which my colleague said I absolutely need to participate because someone was going to present a success story of Machine Learning. Being an analytics evangelist in the company, I was of course excited about it! At the end of the presentation, I raised my hand to ask the presenter a question..."Can you help me understand how was Machine Learning applied in this use case?". The presenter replied..."I passed through these data into a Regression Model to produce these prediction results on my laptop." Unfortunately, nowadays, the phrase "machine learning" has become an overused buzzword just like "big data".

Inbenta is a company specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing which was born in Barcelona and nowadays has presence in 8 different countries (Spain, USA, Chile, Brasil, Mexico, France, The Netherlands and Singapore).

The other day, a search for "artificial intelligence in law" produced 86,400 results from just the News section of Google's vast index. From the Web as a whole, 32,800,000 results and from Videos – 261,000, beginning with Jude Law's role as Gigolo Joe in the movie A.I. (thank you, RankBrain). The first News story was "Law firm bosses envision Watson-type computers replacing young lawyers," reporting on the answers to one question in the recent Altman & Weil survey of law firm leaders (page 82). As wittily argued by Ryan McClead, "the question is flawed on many levels [and] … it's time to cut the hysteria surrounding artificial intelligence in law." But we need to parse the pile a bit.

Well I finally got one, but it turned out to be a vacuum cleaner rather than a talking walking friend. In the next 5 years we are going to start to see Robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have a big impact on all our working lives. Driverless trucks & cars In the next 5 years we will start to see the first driverless vehicles on our roads. Imagine how this will impact the daily commute. Instead of being stuck behind the wheel you can sit at a table working, watching TV, or even doing your gym workout on a treadmill.

THE TERM "artificial intelligence" has been associated with hubris and disappointment since its earliest days. It was coined in a research proposal from 1956, which imagined that significant progress could be made in getting machines to "solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans…if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer". That proved to be rather optimistic, to say the least, and despite occasional bursts of progress and enthusiasm in the decades that followed, AI research became notorious for promising much more than it could deliver. Researchers mostly ended up avoiding the term altogether, preferring to talk instead about "expert systems" or "neural networks". But in the past couple of years there has been a dramatic turnaround.

TOKYO--Japanese smartphone-game provider DeNA Co. said Thursday it has set up a company with Preferred Networks Inc., becoming the latest major firm to bet on the startup's artificial-intelligence technology for growth. The joint project might mean Nintendo Co.'s future smartphone games would be powered by the technology, further beefing up the business potential of its popular characters, including Pokémon, for example, which was...

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Singapore has announced a new partnership with Microsoft to create a digital government services platform that will shift towards conversational computing. Announcing the initiative at the World Cities Summit in the city-state on 12 July, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister-In-Charge of the Smart Nation Initiative, said the new medium, conceptually referred to as "Conversations as a Platform" will use chatbots -- intelligent software programmes that simulate human behaviour. "I believe there are more intuitive ways for government services to be delivered to our citizens," Dr Balakrishnan said. The chatbots, which combine human language, artificial intelligence and machine learning, are envisioned to make public and business transactions simpler, more efficient, and more consistent. "Everybody expects responsive and personalised interactions in real time. The recent quantum improvement of natural language processing means that'conversations' will be the new medium," he said.