Swedes have never been afraid of new technology, whether it’s the rapid transition toward a cashless future, offering programming classes for kids or interacting with the government online, the people of Sweden seem not only ready but eager to embrace new advances.
It’s therefore not surprising that Sweden has its sights set on a leading role in the coming artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.
The government earlier this year identified artificial intelligence and machine learning as a priority area that “can strengthen Sweden’s competitiveness and welfare”. Although Sweden doesn’t plan to go it alone — it has announced plans to form a joint effort with other Nordic and Baltic nations to promote the region as a global AI leader — there are projects afoot within the industry and the nation’s educational institutions to ensure that Sweden is out in front when it comes to AI.
Artificial intelligence could contribute an additional 1.2 percent to annual gross domestic product growth for at least the next decade, according to a simulation from McKinsey Global Institute.
Overall, AI could deliver $13 trillion in additional global economic activity by 2030, putting its contributions to growth on par with the introduction of other transformative technologies such as the steam engine, McKinsey said in a report released Wednesday morning Hong Kong time.
The institute’s model expects about 70 percent of companies will adopt at least one form of AI by 2030, and that a significant portion of large firms will use a full range of the technology.
Infinia ML, the machine learning startup led by serial entrepreneur Robbie Allen and Dr. Larry Carin, Duke University’s vice provost for research, is formalizing its relationship with Duke through a plan to offer lectures from executives and ML advice for Duke startups.
Future 5G-based wireless networking equipment and data center equipment will combine antennas and the corresponding radio guts into one microprocessor unit, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology say.
Integrating all of the wireless elements that one needs in a radio will reduce waste heat and allow better modulation, according to the group, which has been working on a one-chip, multiple transmitter and receiver package design. Longer transmission times and better data rates will result, they say.
“Within the same channel bandwidth, the proposed transmitter can transmit six- to ten-times higher data rate,” says Hua Wang, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in a news article on the university’s website about the idea.
French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly has appointed Emmanuel Chiva, a specialist in artificial intelligence and training simulation, as director of the newly formed agency for defense innovation, the ministry said.
Chiva took up the post Sept. 1, when the innovation office was officially set up, the ministry said in a Sept. 4 statement. Parly made the appointment in consultation with Joël Barre, head of the Direction Générale de l’Armement procurement office. The innovation agency will report to the DGA.
To answer significant questions about planetary systems, such as whether our solar system is a rare phenomenon or if life exists on planets other than Earth, NASA should lead a large direct imaging mission – an advanced space telescope – capable of studying Earth-like exoplanets orbiting stars similar to the sun, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved allocating $70 million to the University of Texas at San Antonio for two new downtown structures.
One of the planned new structures is a National Security Collaboration Center. The $33 million facility will span 80,000 square feet and house innovation, laboratory and research facility space. It will serve as a hub for government, university and industry partners in the cybersecurity field with a focus on forensics, visualization and analytics, network security, cyber training, workforce development, big data analytics and privacy.
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Millennium Management has shut down a quant hedge fund founded by two acclaimed physicists that suffered only one losing year since it began trading in the early 1990s.
The closing of Prediction Company, which Millennium bought in 2013, came as a surprise to employees because the firm was profitable, according to a person familiar with the matter. The hedge fund was started by Doyne Farmer and Norm Packard, who are known for their seminal work in developing chaos theory, and managed about $4 billion at its peak.
Facebook and Twitter made a hotly anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill today, as top executives sat for a day’s worth of questions from lawmakers related to election interference, political bias, and more.
In the day’s first hearing, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared the dais with Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for questions related to how the companies are protecting their platforms from abuse. (Google declined to send its CEO, and was represented by an empty chair.)
In the day’s second hearing, Dorsey alone faced more four hours of questions from members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Members of Congress asked mostly well informed questions about a wide range of subjects, and the tone was generally cordial.
It’s been a while since our last update but today we have some exciting news: we’re happy to announce that Authorea has joined Atypon, the leading online scholarly publishing technology company!
Our mission has been the same from day one: to improve the ways in which researchers write and publish their work. We’ve felt that science writing and publishing are not as modern as they could be, which is why we built Authorea— so that research documents can exist on an open, online, data-driven, interactive platform.
It turns out that our team’s mission is aligned with the mission of Atypon, and its parent company, Wiley.
Amazon.com is in talks with Chile to house and mine massive amounts of data generated by the country’s giant telescopes, which could prove fertile ground for the company to develop new artificial intelligence tools.
Research from the Oxford Internet Institute’s computational propaganda project has found that the proportion of ‘junk news’ shared on social media during the ongoing Swedish election campaign is higher than any other European country studied – and second only to the US in recent major elections.
With Sweden going to the polls on 9 September, the study shows that Swedish social media users have shared two links to professional news content for every one link to junk news, with junk sources accounting for 22% of all URLs shared with political hashtags.
A new survey of more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users finds that 44 percent of users ages 18 to 29 have deleted the app from their phones in the past year.
Overall, 26 percent have deleted the app, while 42 percent have taken a break of several weeks or more.
Silliman will soon be home to the Good Life Center, a new wellness space dedicated to teaching and practicing living the good life.
The center, which is slated to open on Sept. 17, will be located on the fourth floor of Byers Hall, above the Silliman dining hall. Aimed at undergraduates but open to graduate and professional students as well, the center will offer programming and events to promote mental health education and student well-being. The development of the center has been spearheaded by Laurie Santos — the head of Silliman and professor who taught “Psychology and the Good Life,” a course about living happily in which a fifth of the undergraduate population enrolled, last semester.
“Students need more than just a class about how to live a good life,” Santos said. “I wanted to create a place where students could take a break and shut down and think about things that are important to them, where they could have difficult conversations about student wellness and mental health.”
TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of integration, API management, and analytics solutions, is debuting TIBCO Data Science on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
TIBCO Data Science, soon to be available in AWS Marketplace, allows data scientists to share and collaborate using big data, machine learning capabilities, while also providing data security and governance.
As part of the TIBCO Connected Intelligence platform, TIBCO Data Science eliminates complex coding for citizen data scientists, making it easy to develop code-free workflows to support data transformation and machine learning, in addition to deep integration with Jupyter Notebooks.
I hope Part 1 sold you on the idea that version control is a critical tool for managing data science experiments. But the devil is in the details, so let’s talk about how to implement version control in a data science project.
There are several paradigms for using git, but I have essentially adapted “feature branching” for the purposes of data science experiments.