Hidden inside a busy industrial building in Somerville, Massachusetts, a robot arm spends its day picking up seemingly random objects—bottles of shampoo, onions, cans of shaving foam—from a conveyor belt that goes in a circle about 10 meters in
2018-10-24
Financial markets offer countless ways of making (or losing) money. A key distinction among them is the investment horizon, which can range from fractions of a second to years.Walnut AlgorithmsandGlobal Systematic Investorsare new investment management firms
2018-10-24
Why artificial intelligence still needs a human touch Opinion 5 April 2017 How do people distinguish between fact and falsehood? This is perhaps, one of the most debated questions of the past year Nick Ismail Google and Facebook are both in the spotlight for
2018-10-23
Darktrace's "digital antibodies" have stopped one Brexit-themed data protection threat: while trialling the machine-learning anti-hacking system's latest security automation tool, one company was alerted to an insider threat. A previously well-behaved
2018-10-22
Nick Ismail One in four people have mental health issues and in men under 50, suicide is the main cause of death. It is a huge, often misunderstood problem that pervades every society and most families. This was the opening message delivered by Valentin
2018-10-22
In “The Beauty and Joy of Computing,” the course he helped conceive for nonmajors at the University of California, Berkeley, Daniel Garcia explains an all-important concept in computer science — abstraction — in terms of milkshakes. “There is a
2018-10-22
Machine Learning has granted incredible power to humans. The power to run tasks in automated manner, the power to make our lives comfrotable, the power to improve things continuously by studying decisions at large sacle . And the power to create species who
2018-10-21
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. In the data space plenty of new terms are being coined (by marketing?) for handling data modeling, governance and quality issues: “data preparation”, “data wrangling”, “data catalogue” and
2018-10-21
I’ll be honest. For someone who writes about artificial intelligence as much as I do, I’m a bit behind on my knowledge of science fiction. As much as my father implored, I could never quite build an enthusiasm for Star Trek. And to the lament of many
2018-10-20
