Paccar's autonomously-enabled trucks configured with the Aurora autonomous Driver platform will haul FedEx loads between Dallas and Houston along the I-45 corridor. Paccar has teamed up with Fedex and Aurora to launch a commercial pilot of autonomous trucks in linehaul trucking operations. Paccar's autonomously-enabled trucks configured with the Aurora autonomous Driver platform will haul FedEx loads between Dallas and Houston, a 500-mile round trip, along the I-45 corridor. The trucks will operate autonomously, with a backup driver for additional safety. This is the first collaboration of its kind between a truck manufacturer, an autonomous technology developer and a logistics provider, Paccar officials said.

Xilica, a provider of collaboration products that help unlock the power of human connection, has partnered with global audio specialist Sennheiser to develop a tightly-integrated room solution that minimizes installation time, improves audio quality, and enhances collaboration for end-users. The partnership will leverage premium audio products from both companies, offering integrators a seamless way to deploy adaptable, IT-friendly audio-conferencing systems. The complete solution, which pairs the Sennheiser TeamConnect Ceiling 2 beamforming microphone array with Xilica's ecosystem of DSP, user interfaces and network endpoints, ensures exceptional speech intelligibility for physical and remote participants in hybrid spaces. This gives end-users the flexibility to move throughout their space and present in their own style, while eliminating risk of inaudibility. Integrators and end users benefit from the Sennheiser TeamConnect Ceiling 2's seamless integration with Xilica Solaro processors and Xilica Gio network endpoints, enabling an easy, no-code setup with pre-validated compatibility. As part of the alliance, Xilica has enabled support for the TruVoicelift functionality of Sennheiser's TeamConnect Ceiling 2 (TCC2) across its Solaro Series of DSPs, which simplifies the installation of multiple Sennheiser TCC2 microphones through automatic testing and calibration of audio, saving hours of time during system commissioning.

The agreement establishing Intel as BBVA's priority partner is part of a series of strategic, global alliances that the Group is formalizing with tech leaders. The goal is to become a more flexible and scalable bank, capable of offering its clients the best data-driven digital services. Automatic learning is a prerequisite for intelligent systems. It enables data-driven predictions and creates new business opportunities. Banking in general, and BBVA in particular, is already taking advantage of this technology in order to improve products and services for its customers.

As I look back at 2019 and the changes that shaped the IT landscape this year, we saw more widespread adoption of solutions that both run on and regurgitate datasets in efforts to improve business intelligence. We are increasingly seeing the role of data in enabling futuristic technologies like data analytics, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). With 2020 on the horizon, everything is trending toward how and why companies use their data to serve consumers, make decisions for competitiveness, and iterate operations to improve profitability. For this reason, I think that one of the biggest challenges of 2020 will be how companies can secure a reliable storage, deployment and usage posture for their datasets. Datasets need to move around fast during usage and deployment stages, but also securely.

The second day of Microsoft's annual Future Decoded conference in London kicked off with a keynote presentation discussing how data growth is becoming the new Moore's Law. Through Moore's Law, the technology industry has seen exponential growth in computing power, with processor performance doubling every 18 months to two years. But now, according to Microsoft, data is driving a new approach to software development, where data is doubling every two years and advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to exploit this data. Chris Bishop, technical lead at Microsoft Labs in Cambridge, said: "Moore's Law has driven the digital revolution. I believe there is a revolution in the way we create software. In the last decade, we have handcrafted software to achieve the desired outcome. With AI, there is a radically different approach – we tell the computer how to learn."

Join us for Outsourcing-Pharma's upcoming editorial webinar, titled Real Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence: Where are we now? This discussion will feature expert insights from Sudip Parikh, PhD, senior vice president and managing director, Americas, DIA Global; Doug Peddicord, PhD, executive director, Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO); and Thomas Clozel, MD, co-founder and CEO, Owkin . The Real Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence webinar is sponsored by: Acorn AI (a Medidata company); OM1; ICON plc; and Elligo Health Research . For more information and to register for FREE, please click HERE . The industry, across the drug development continuum, has so far this year announced myriad new partnerships, strategic alliances, product launches, and reports.

Mayo Clinic has entered into a 10-year strategic partnership with Google to use the tech giant's cloud platform to accelerate innovation through digital technologies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Rochester, Minn.-based hospital said it selected Google Cloud to be the cornerstone of its "digital transformation." As part of the collaboration, Mayo Clinic will store patient data in the cloud and use advanced cloud computing, data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to advance the diagnosis and treatment of disease, hospital executives said in a press release. "Data-driven medical innovation is growing exponentially, and our partnership with Google will help us lead the digital transformation in health care," Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., president and CEO of Mayo Clinic, said in a statement.

Joseph Health today announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of health care. The alliance will combine the power of Microsoft's cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), research capabilities, and collaboration tools with the clinical expertise and care environments of Providence St. The two organizations will develop a portfolio of integrated solutions designed to improve health outcomes and reduce the total cost of care by combining technologies from Microsoft with Providence St. The alliance will accelerate the health care industry's adoption of the cloud and enable data-driven clinical and operational decision-making by leveraging Microsoft Azure, and industry interoperability standards like FHIR, to integrate siloed data sources in a cloud environment that enables security and compliance. This site will enable modern clinical and operational experiences for both patients and providers.

TYSONS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced the expansion of its strategic alliance with Microsoft through the advancement of Industrial Machine Learning (IML) solutions that enable data scientists to produce new data-derived enterprise insights, leading to better and more timely business decisions. Most large, data-rich companies fail to benefit from information on an enterprise-wide scale because they are not equipped to effectively capture and analyze available data sources. A recent survey from PwC and Iron Mountain found that 57 percent of businesses are unable to extract significant value from their information, and 23 percent are unable to derive any real value at all. Regardless of size, geography or sector, businesses are struggling to fully realize value from their information. "CSC has been working with Microsoft on industry-specific approaches to the problem of creating data science that works," said Dan Hushon, chief technology officer, CSC.

The following use case shows how an exchange of clean blended data can simplify the implementation of commercial and strategic alliances between businesses with a common interest. The company is a Professional Sports Club. They operate their own sports stadium which is well equipped with facilities for hospitality and has an integral retail outlet, refreshment and catering. Recently they have extended the stadium to include new seating as well as new entertainment facilities.. Martin is the Marketing Director and is keen to increase revenue from all sources but is mainly interested in ensuring that the entertainment facilities are fully utilised on match as well as non match days. Martin has examined how strategic alliances may be formed to fully exploit the commercial opportunities the overall facilities provide.