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AI4Good Helps Organize Financial Data Science Event - AI for Good Foundation
On June 19-21, the Financial Data Science Association will hold its regular conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The AI for Good Foundation has teamed up with FDSA to explore themes of transparency, regulation, and the positive impacts of increased data-driven decision making and intelligent systems in Finance. We encourage participation from a broad community to come and learn, debate, and contribute to the future vision of Sustainable and Transparent Financial Markets! FDSA aims to bring together thought leaders and actors from across the globe, industry, and academia, to present, debate, and construct a common vision for the integration of judicious data science into the investment and risk management process. We want to see how data is transforming finance today, and what it could do tomorrow as companies compete to innovate, and make use of their data resources to maximum advantage.
Outsmarting Disease -- With Artificial Intelligence
More and more, 67-year-old Washington resident Lon Coleman feels like he's wandering through a fog. He walks into the living room and forgets why, or makes a phone call only to blank on whose number he dialed. An author of three books who once wrote up to five poems a day, now the lines that spring to his mind often slip away as soon as he puts pencil to paper. Sometimes the fog clears, and when his memory comes back, "it's amazing," he says. "Sometimes it doesn't, I have to admit."
Siri creators launch Viv, a voice assistant that hopes to run people's entire lives
Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display
Fraud Advanced Analytics Manager - Centre for Innovation at Accenture - Machine Learning
Overview of the Centre for Innovation A living, breathing innovation hub as an accelerator to help Accenture and its clients unlock value by design. Our design-led, multidiscipline Centre for Innovation will research, incubate and pilot new and emerging digital technologies. Opportunities will focus on building the future in real time, partnering with clients across multiple industries and bringing together distinct skillsets to create true acceleration at scale. Operating across all stages of the innovation spectrum, the working environment will be open and interactive. An experimentation culture combined with a disruptive brief will ensure that together we make major societal impacts.
Scientists create machine learning robot hand – Tech2
A team led by an Indian-origin computer engineer from University of Washington has built a five-fingered robotic hand that can not only perform dexterous in-hand manipulation but also learn from its own experience without depending on humans to direct it. Hand manipulation is one of the hardest problems that roboticists have to solve. "Several robots today have pretty capable arms but the hand is as simple as a suction cup or maybe a claw or a gripper," said lead author Vikash Kumar, doctoral student in computer science and engineering. The team spent years custom building one of the most highly capable five-fingered robot hands in the world. Then they developed an accurate simulation model that enables a computer to analyse movements in real time. In their latest demonstration, they apply the model to the hardware and real-world tasks like rotating an elongated object.
CFPApp
PAPIs is the premier forum for the presentation of new machine learning APIs, techniques, architectures and tools to build predictive applications. It is a community conference that brings together practitioners from industry, government and academia to present new developments, identify new needs and trends, and discuss the challenges of building real-world predictive applications. PAPIs '16 is the 3rd International Conference on Predictive APIs and Apps, featuring 3 tracks (Technical, Business, Research) and the 1st AI Startup Battle where the jury is an AI. The audience is a mix of developers, software engineers, all-round data scientists, machine learning specialists, researchers, decision makers, managers, strategists and innovators. Previous editions took place in Sydney (PAPIs '15), Barcelona (PAPIs '14), Paris and Valencia (PAPIs Connect).
New Bipedal Non-Humanoid Robot From Google X
About a meter tall, the robot is a very strange sight - it is essentially a pair of almost entirely straight legs which pivot from the top. An ankle mechanism is used to ensure that the robot lands with a flat foot. It was accompanied on stage by Yuto Nakanishi who gave a commentary on a video that shows the robot climbing stairs, walking on snow and across a rocky beach, and staying upright when a rod is used in a deliberate attempt to trip it.
Aria Networks: service delivery automation powered by AI - Aria Networks
The catalyst builds on last year's demonstration which was awarded'Most Significant Contributor to a Catalyst Program of New Technology Solutions'. It will be showcasing the ability to dynamically adjust virtualized network functions in real time and monitor them constantly to maximize both technical performance, resource utilization and, critically, business profitability. Achieving this enables the service provider to continually achieve a network that is truly optimized, not only technically but also against business criteria. Dr Jay Perrett, CTO of Aria Networks comments: "The end goal for service providers is a highly-automated business, based on intelligent consideration of all the factors that can affect profitability, from moment to moment. SDN and NFV add to the range of options that service providers have, which means more complex decisions to make. That's the sort of problem that only AI can solve."
Agenda - Business of Software Europe
Business of Software Conference is a single-track conference, every speaker, in the words of Joel Spolsky, would be, "a headline keynote at most other conferences". We build in lots of time to network, talk and learn from others. We work hard to connect you with other attendees that can help solve your challenges. Why My Second Startup is Different. Attendees are exceptional people who want to be the best they can be in their chosen career.
20 Hand-Picked Raspberry Pi Tutorials in Computer Vision
Engineers have always tried to give the robot the gift of sight. So, they have to replicate the human vision process with computers, algorithms, cameras and more. In the DIY area, a Raspberry Pi is the queen of prototyping platforms. So, why not to use it in computer vision applications. The projects started coming fast and furious for navigation, localization, recognition, classifications, monitoring, reading and more.