Cash Prizes for COVID-19 AI Contest Testing Data Scientists’ NLP Smarts
Ten thousand dollars in prize money is available to data scientists with natural language processing expertise competing in a contest designed to help rid the world of coronavirus. Kaggle, ...Full Article
Digital Twins of Cities Simulate Coronavirus Public Policy Impacts
President Trump’s stated desire that the country be “opened up” from social distancing by Easter (April 12) is a hotly debated coronavirus issue in political, media and healthcare circles. ...Full Article
Rising AI Adoption Prompts Risk Assessments
Adopters of AI in the enterprise are focusing on specific production workloads centered around supervised and deep learning while the number of organizations using AI in production or evaluating ...Full Article
Feds, Tech Industry Mull Use of Cell Phone Data for COVID-19 Hot Spot Analytics
Google and a host of other technology companies are in discussions with the federal government and health experts over the use of Americans’ cell phone tracking data to analyze ...Full Article
5 Tech Giants Combine to Combat Coronavirus Misinformation, Fraud; Companies Issue Pandemic Policies
This article is an updated version of a story first published on March 17. In the face of a report warning that COVID-19 could kill more than 2 million ...Full Article
Crowdsourcing at Massive Scale Takes on COVID-19
For gamers, fighting against a global crisis is usually pure fantasy seen in a console – but now, it’s looking more like a reality. As supercomputers around the world ...Full Article
Beat the GPU Storage Bottleneck for AI and ML
Data centers that support AI and ML deployments rely on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-based servers to power their computationally intensive architectures. Across multiple industries, expansion in GPU use is ...Full Article
Open Source Push Highlights Security Flaws
As enterprise adoption of open source software soars, so too do the number of vulnerabilities inevitably exposed as deployments scale and security awareness grows in response to high-profile data ...Full Article
IBM Adds NLP Tools to Watson AI
IBM has upgraded its Watson AI platform to boost the ability to understand business lingo that could be used to analyze the English language text and conversations. The natural ...Full Article
AI + HPC Aimed at GDPR, Data Privacy Compliance
In the banking, financial services and insurance industries, data privacy compliance is an eternally daunting challenge, and now data management consultancy Vaco and NEC X, the "innovation accelerator" arm ...Full Article
