As the ethical and policy issues surrounding artificial intelligence and other computing technologies take center stage, global law firm K&L Gates LLP has made a gift to help ensure Carnegie Mellon University's leadership in this emerging field. The $10 million gift will establish the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies. The funds will support new faculty chairs as well as three new Presidential Fellowships for doctoral students; a biennial conference; the K&L Gates Presidential Scholarship Endowed Fund to recognize undergraduate students' outstanding achievements and potential for further excellence; and an annual K&L Gates Prize to be awarded to a graduating CMU senior. "We are deeply grateful to K&L Gates for this generous support," said Carnegie Mellon President Subra Suresh. "It is not just technology that will determine how this century unfolds. Our future will also be influenced strongly by how humans interact with technology, how we foresee and respond to the unintended consequences of our work, and how we ensure that technology is used to benefit humanity, individually and as a society. "By its history and its current leadership in these fields, Carnegie Mellon is uniquely positioned to examine these questions, and make lasting contributions.

Add Adobe Systems to the list of software companies proclaiming themselves to be artificial intelligence powers. It's in august company: IBM ibm, Microsoft, Salesforce crm are all wrapping themselves in the artificial intelligence (aka AI) mantle. On Wednesday, Adobe adbe will show off Sensei, an array of AI technology that it is already adding to software applications for creating and publishing documents, and for analyzing and tracking web and mobile application performance. "Sensei" is the Japanese term for a respected teacher or leader. Adobe founded in 1982, is a venerable force in the creative software world--it's behind familiar tools including the Portable Document Format (PDF) used to format and distribute professional-looking documents; Photoshop for editing photographs; Illustrator for creating graphics; and InDesign for creating professional-looking documents for print or online.

Many vendors like Cisco and Intel are proponents of Edge Processing (also called Edge computing). The main idea behind Edge Computing is to push processing away from the core and towards the Edge of the network. For IoT, that means pushing processing towards the sensors or a gateway. This enables data to be initially processed at the Edge device possibly enabling smaller datasets sent to the core. Devices at the Edge may not be continuously connected to the network.

Those new glasses make you look completely different – especially to face recognition software. A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has fooled face recognition algorithms using the oldest trick in the book: a pair of fake glasses. By printing bespoke patterns onto the front of the frames, they enabled wearers not only to obscure their identity but to impersonate people who look completely different, at least in the eyes of the algorithms. A white male researcher wearing the glasses was able to pass for American actress Milla Jovovich while a South-Asian female colleague was digitally disguised as a Middle-Eastern male. The system wasn't perfect, however: a Middle-Eastern male trying to use the glasses to pass as white British actor Clive Owen only succeeded 16 per cent of the time.

Guest blog post by Jen-Hsun Hunag, Founder, President and CEO at NVIDIA, Originally entitled "The Intelligent Industrial Revolution". Intelligent machines powered by AI computers that can learn, reason and interact with people are no longer science fiction. Today, a self-driving car powered by AI can meander through a country road at night and find its way. An AI-powered robot can learn motor skills through trial and error. This is truly an extraordinary time.

China's fastest supercomputers have some clear goals, namely development of its artificial intelligence, robotics industries and military capability, says the U.S. But some of the early iterations of this effort seem a little weird. China recently deployed what it calls a "security robot" in a Shenzhen airport. It's named AnBot and patrols around the clock. Here's what AnBot looks like, according to a Chinese government newspaper, The People's Daily online.

Lancaster University is developing artificial intelligence (AI) software for servers that could potentially drive down the amount of energy consumed by datacentres. A collection of our most popular articles on datacentre management, including: Cloud vs. Colocation: Why both make sense for the enterprise right now; AWS at 10: How the cloud giant shook up enterprise IT and Life on the edge: The benefits of using micro datacenters This email address is already registered. By submitting my Email address I confirm that I have read and accepted the Terms of Use and Declaration of Consent. By submitting your personal information, you agree that TechTarget and its partners may contact you regarding relevant content, products and special offers. You also agree that your personal information may be transferred and processed in the United States, and that you have read and agree to the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.

Big Blue has found yet another business application for its precocious cognitive computing system. IBM Watson Health is collaborating with the biopharmaceutical company Celgene to develop a new platform for evaluating the safety of drugs--both before and after they hit the market--the two companies are announcing this morning. The new offering, "Watson for Patient Safety," will gobble up anonymized medical records, claims data, and millions of electronic submissions to the FDA about potential drug side effects (known as individual case safety reports) to see if it can learn about the hidden dangers of medicines before they become too costly. The problem is one of the toughest in drug development. Many chemical agents (and maybe even most) interact with more than one "target"--meaning that if a drug has a molecular effect to begin with, it very likely will have one or more side effects.

And I don't mean that fake diploma your colleague has proudly displayed in his larger office with windows across the hallway from your smaller office without windows. Of course, you don't need blast curtains. It's October, White House Scary Report month, and the Administration didn't disappoint. After the Cubs won Game 2, I put Defying Hitler aside last night to read the report. This report is an absolute must-read for anyone genuinely interested in the advent of Artificial Intelligence (if that's you, you've already it read it, most likely). It's a must-read for anyone who's so far missed the AI train and wants to catch up--it walks us through the history of AI very nicely, concisely.