ALEXANDRIA, Va.--Innovation came to life for the Conexxus Innovation Research Committee (IRC) during a recent field trip that members made to multiple sites in Austin, Texas. One of the hallmarks of the IRC is to experience what's new for the industry firsthand. A visit to a new TXB Stores location in Georgetown, Texas, was on the list not only to taste its breakfast taco but also to see how an artificial intelligence pilot utilizing existing security camera system has progressed. Utilizing SparkCognition's Visual AI Advisor solution, the insights from the location visit were intriguing and revealing. To review the data, we visited with SparkCognition representatives at their offices and HyperWerx lab on a 50-acre site.

If you approach us as partners and you say, okay, well, I have an infrastructure system, or, I have a process, or, I have a problem that I'd like to be able to automate and add intelligence to … how do I manage that? What we've done is we've focused on a foundation system that we can use to build our systems and that our partners can use to build and extend their systems as an example. These are building blocks that work together. And we now know that with the applications of AI layered on top of existing infrastructure, we can deliver tremendous results.

SparkCognition, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions perfected for business, is pleased to announce it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Integration Wizards, a leader in visual AI. Through this acquisition, SparkCognition expands its IP portfolio to include computer vision capabilities, bringing greater value to its industry solutions. The technology leverages new and diverse data sets, including CCTV feeds, drone footage, video from handheld devices, and existing camera infrastructures. The solution can be deployed in hours or days, and helps address critical problems, including safety, security, visual inspection, productivity, and situational awareness. "With advanced visual AI that can recognize complex scenes and activities we further amplify the value we deliver to our customers while leveraging existing infrastructure investments," said Amir Husain, Founder and CEO of SparkCognition.

Husain claims that Darwin can uncover problems like missing data while suggesting solutions to problems in an AI training dataset, such as malformed or missing data. Darwin can also ostensibly deliver "explainable" model results that spotlight important aspects of a dataset, he says. On the cybersecurity side, SparkCognition offers DeepArmor, which leverages AI to attempt to mitigate executable-based cyberattacks. Meanwhile, the company's DeepNLP service automates workflows of unstructured data to simplify tasks like information retrieval, document classification, and analytics. SparkCognition's SparkPredict and Ensemble are AI-powered asset management and predictive maintenance platforms, built to detect suboptimal production yields and equipment failures proactively.

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As AI's presence in all kinds of domains becomes more obvious every day, we can no longer think of it as something completely separate from the physical world. As visionaries predicted, the digital and the material are slowly merging. And, for the team at SparkCognition, an infrastructure-focused artificial intelligence company, this means that software and hardware should also be considered as a whole, not as different components. The HyperWerx campus will do just that, as a first-of-its-kind autonomy facility where AI exploration is set to lead the way. Instead of relying only on software and theoretical tests, the engineers at SparkCognition wanted to actually see how AI and the physical systems would interact.

SparkCognition and SkyGrid announced a new collaboration to deploy AI-powered cybersecurity directly on drones, protecting them from zero-day attacks during flight. Equipped with SparkCognition's DeepArmor cybersecurity product, SkyGrid is the first airspace management system to enable drone protection powered by AI. This approach provides more advanced airspace security than traditional anti-malware reliant on signatures of known threats. "In the near future, we'll essentially have a network of flying computers in the sky, and just like the computers we use today, drones can be hacked if not secured properly," said Amir Husain, CEO and founder of SparkCognition and SkyGrid. "In this emerging environment, traditional anti-malware technology won't be adequate to detect these never-before-seen attacks. SkyGrid is taking a new, intelligent approach by using AI to more accurately detect and prevent cyberattacks from impacting a drone, a payload, or a ground station."

Modern day enterprise security is like guarding a fortress that is being attacked on all fronts, from digital infrastructure to applications to network endpoints. That complexity is why AI technologies such as deep learning and machine learning have emerged as game-changing defensive weapons in the enterprise's arsenal over the past three years. There is no other technology that can keep up. It has the ability to rapidly analyze billions of data points, and glean patterns to help a company act intelligently and instantaneously to neutralize many potential threats. Beginning about five years ago, investors started pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into a wave of new security startups that leverage AI, including CrowdStrike, Darktrace, Vectra AI, and Vade Secure, among others.

Nearly every new day brings exciting news in the field of artificial intelligence. But what larger directional trends do these news items drive? Beyond the announcements and the hype, is AI really evolving? In this article, I'd like to focus not on far-off, vague hopes and wishes about AI, but instead on a few concrete developments that lie in the not-so-distant future. The trends outlined below are already beginning to materialize in the form of real-world research and applications.

Airline transport faces an enviable problem: how does it improve an already impressive safety record? Doing so may be beyond human capability, but well within the potential of two computing concepts--big data and artificial intelligence. Big data is an almost self-defining term. More specifically, as defined by Gartner Group in 2001, it is data that has the three Vs: 'greater variety, arriving in increasing volumes and with ever-higher velocity.' The Airbus A350 is a good example of the three Vs.