With the goal of creating next-generation computing power to support high-energy physics research, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that Princeton University will lead a new NSF-funded coalition of 17 research universities to be called the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP).
After three years in the trenches of Facebook’s war against disinformation, Alex Stamos brings bad news from the front: US elections are at risk of becoming the “World Cup of information warfare.”
“That campaign to drive wedges into American society has not stopped. If anything, it has intensified,” Stamos told CNN recently.
Stamos is not an alarmist. He has spent the better part of the past two decades in the digital security business, most recently as the head of information security at Facebook.
As artificial intelligence matures so does its potential in the creative industries — one of which happens to be music production. Although AI is not about to top the hit charts any time soon, algorithms are already creating, performing and even monetizing their own musical compositions. Synced took a look into current AI music techniques and projects from tech giants and startups alike.
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Lightning is a symptom and a cause of climate change. A recently established task team is working to make lightning data available and useful for climate science and service applications.
The bipartisan $6.3 billion medical innovation package was chock-full of policies to modernize the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, combat the nationwide opioid epidemic, advance Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, and speed approval of new, lifesaving therapies for the most devastating of diseases.
But laws passed by Congress must be implemented through regulations. The Cures Act gave broad authority to the executive branch to execute and enforce both the spirit and the letter of the law. Nineteen months after the act became law, that task mainly remains undone.
Samsung has opened its second U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) research facility (sixth globally), as the Korean electronics giant continues to double down on its investments in transformative technologies.
Samsung announced last year that it was planning a new AI research hub, and in the intervening months it actually opened centers in Canada, the U.K., and Russia, in addition to existing facilities in Seoul (South Korea) and Mountain View, California.
The technology could vastly improve lives, the economist says – but only if the tech titans that control it are properly regulated. ‘What we have now is totally inadequate’
The military’s research arm said Friday it will invest up to $2 billion over the next five years toward new programs advancing artificial intelligence, stepping up both a technological arms race with China and an ideological clash with Silicon Valley over the future of powerful machines.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Defense Department, said it will fund dozens of new research efforts as part of a “Third Wave” campaign aimed at developing machines that can learn and adapt to changing environments.
DARPA director Steven Walker announced the effort Friday to an audience from American academia, private industry and the military at a symposium outside Washington, saying the agency wants to explore “how machines can acquire human-like communication and reasoning capabilities.”
This morning voice-powered healthcare company Notable announced that it scored $13.5 million in Series A funding in a round led by F-Prime Capital Partners and Oak HC/FT with participation from Greylock Partners and Maverick Ventures. This latest funding brings the company’s total financing to $19.3 million, according to Crunchbase.
This news comes just months after Notable launched its latest product, a voice-powered artificial intelligence wearable for doctors. The platform combines AI and voice recognition technology to capture information from a doctor’s visit. It can pick up on dictations and orders, and can recommend the appropriate billing codes. Then the data from the visit is automatically entered into the EHR using secure robotic processing automation.
Google’s absence at Wednesday’s Senate hearing shows big tech is bigger than Washington, New York University Stern School of Business professor Scott Galloway told CNBC.
“When you get to this size, you have the capital, the power, the influence, to effectively be immune from competition,” Galloway says. “It is time to break these guys up.”
“The danger with these acquisitions is that a company might unintentionally obtain trade secrets and expose themselves to a lawsuit, even the prospect of paying damages.”
The Data Catalog Collaboration Project-Basic Science (DCCP-BS) is a working group with the objective of creating best practices for curating basic science-related records into the DCCP catalogs. Members of this DCCP subgroup include subject specialists, catalogers, and data/metadata librarians from the Universities of Pittsburgh, Maryland-Baltimore, and North Carolina.
The group formed after the realization that contributors from the various DCCP institutions were disparately interpreting field definitions of existing metadata entities when curating basic science-related data catalog entries. Upon reflection this is not surprising, as the original DCCP metadata schema focused on human subject datasets and didn’t sufficiently capture specific information affiliated with animal research and basic science datasets.
Study after study has shown that TripAdvisor is becoming terrifyingly important in a traveler’s decision making process. However, understanding the nuance of TripAdvisor bubble score vs. each of thousands of TripAdvisor review text , can be challenging. In an effort to more thoroughly understand whether hotel guests reviews influence hotel performance overtime, I scraped all English reviews from TripAdvisor for one hotel — Hilton Hawaiian Village.
