I have been involved with FIRST for over a decade, inspired to support the program after its founder Dean Kamen came to San Diego to tell us about the non-profit. After my first experience as a judge I was hooked, and now, I've experienced the competition through judging at the regional events for more than 10 years. In addition to my individual experience, as a Company, Qualcomm supports FIRST globally as a sponsor and as a strategic partner, providing employee volunteers and mentorships, as well as implementing new technologies for the competitions. This past year, Qualcomm helped FIRST transition their FIRST Tech Challenge robot control system to a user-friendly, Java-based android platform powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor from Qualcomm Technologies, adding a mobile element to the competition that will bring even more capabilities to the FIRST participants.

Intellectually, many of us know the health and environmental benefits of a plant-based diet, but switching over can be daunting, especially if one hasn't had too much experience with cooking vegetarian or vegan dishes, and also if the tastebuds haven't really gotten used to new flavours. That's why many people may add in some mock meats, just to ease the transition, though whether it actually tastes good and "real" enough is up for debate. Now a team of Chilean scientists is adding technology to the mix, using artificial intelligence to create smarter and better-tasting meat replacements. Founders Matias Muchnick, Karim Pichara and biochemist Isidora Silva of food-tech startup The Not Company are leveraging recent developments in deep learning algorithms to create entirely plant-based foods that are healthy for people, and won't have the huge ecological impact of meat. Muchnick, who is an engineer by training, explains the team's motivation behind their AI model, named Giuseppe: When you get behind the scenes of the food industry, you don't like what you see.

Since we released our text summarization resources, the legal technology community has shown interest in leveraging summarization technology to support litigation document review, deposition digests, and contract analysis. Data scientist interest to use machine learning to mine legal document corpuses and support legal strategy was also one factor motivating our summarization research. The time is therefore ripe for data scientists to apply new text analytics capabilities for legal use cases. But to be effective, data scientists must first understand how lawyers think: what problems they're trying to solve, how their processes are structured, and, perhaps most importantly, what fears may hinder the adoption of new technologies. This guest blog post from Dean Gonsowski, kCura's VP of Business Development, provides tips to help data scientists explain the value of machine learning to lawyers. Electronic discovery software helps manage the exchange of electronically stored information, documents that could be used as evidence in various forms of litigation like investigations or contract reviews.

This week YouTube has updated its mobile app for both iPhone and Android to provide users with a way better Home experience, with a cleaner format and thumbnails for recommended videos. But it's not just a simple redesign that makes Home special, YouTube has curated the videos it will now recommend for you based on what it calls a deep neural network technology. This means the recommendation system is built to find patterns when it comes to the content you watch regularly and learn from them in the future. Which means that (in theory) it'll always be serving up the best content, and changing its mind as you change your interests. YouTube claims that those who have already tried the new recommendation system love the mix of new content from new faces and fresh content from creators they already know and love. You can try it for yourself now, as the update should be rolling out to iPhone and Android users now.

RE•WORK will host it's annual East Coast events on Deep Learning and the Internet of Things in Boston on 12 & 13 May. Over 300 machine learning and IoT enthusiasts and experts will come together to hear keynote presentations, panel discussions, fireside chats and to explore the startup showcase area. The Deep Learning Summit brings together leaders from industry, academia and startups to explore advances in deep learning methods and techniques, as well as their business applications in areas including finance, manufacturing, healthcare & transportation. Professor Bengio is also Head of the Machine Learning Laboratory, Co-director of the CIFAR Neural Computation & Adaptive Perception program, and editor of many prestigious machine learning publications. Daniel's work has been reported on in The Times, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC News, New Scientist and Forbes magazine.

"What is the ape to a man? And so shall man be to the Übermensch." Years ago, as a teenager in France, I used to visit a family friend, Monsieur de la Place. He lived with his wife in a high-rise in a small town outside of Paris. An old man, one side of his body had been paralyzed by a stroke. He was very educated and profound, and became a mentor of sorts to me for a time.

Dignity Health, announced results from a randomized controlled study which demonstrated that the use of digital health technology improved asthma control. The study, "Effectiveness of Population Health Management Using the Propeller Health Asthma Platform: A Randomized Clinical Trial," was recently published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. The Propeller Health Asthma Platform utilizes sensors, mobile applications, and analytics to monitor short-acting?-agonist

Global logistics provider DHL believes worldwide supply chains are beginning to undergo a fundamental transformation as more "artificial intelligence" is deployed to handle both the domestic and international movement of goods According to research conducted in support of its recent 2016 Logistics Trend Radar, DHL thinks the impact of data-driven and autonomous supply chains provides an opportunity for "previously unimaginable levels of optimization" in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing and last mile delivery that could become a reality in less than half a decade, despite high set-up costs deterring early adoption within the logistics industry. Matthias Heutger, senior vice president for strategy, marketing & innovation at DHL, said in a statement that 15 of the 26 "key trends" identified in the company's annual trend radar report "are likely to make an impact in under five years" and thus bear careful watching by the global logistics industry. While the "Internet of Things" or "IoT" will also play a large role in more "intelligent supply chains" as well – a trend DHL noted in its trend report last year – security concerns regarding hacking, among other issues, is slowing down its adoption. IoT offers the potential to connect virtually anything to the Internet and accelerate data-driven logistics, DHL stressed; estimating that by 2020, more than 50 billion objects will be connected to the Internet, presenting an "immense" 1.9 trillion opportunity in logistics, by its reckoning. "Only a few logistics [IoT] applications with substantial business impact have materialized so far," DHL noted in its report. "This is largely due to a shortage of standards in the industry, security concerns, and the fact that recent IoT innovations have mainly been developed for the consumer market.

Subscribe to Datacenter today and access the 200 Leading National Advertisers Report, ranking the nation's 200 biggest ad spenders and more. With all the buzz about artificial intelligence and the launch of the Facebook bot marketplace, I thought it might be helpful to look at the potential implications for marketers over the next 12 months and provide a relatively jargon-free look at some of the near-term opportunities and tips on how to start to prepare for them. At a high level, it's about using AI to power more direct interactions between brands and people, focusing on faster, smarter responses to their questions and needs. Yes, Facebook has released the bot store and messenger maps will become the primary channel for digital customer service and inquires. Facebook is not the only one -- Microsoft has a bot API in Skype and other popular messaging apps such as Kik have also released functionality.

The trucking industry has a driver problem. The job pays well and doesn't require a college degree, but the long hours and lonely stretches on the road make it a tough way of life. That's why the long haul trucking market sees an annual labor turnover rate of more than 90 percent, according to Bob Costello, chief economist at the American Trucking Association. The industry estimates it will need to hire a total of 890,000 new truck drivers over the next decade. The driver shortage is a problem for everyone, because trucking's crucial to the American economy.