<span class="vcard">Benjamin Ross</span>
Benjamin Ross

Nighttime Driving and AI Autonomous Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Are you a nighttime driver? Some people like to drive at night and enjoy pretending they are in their Batmobile and seeking to fight crime. There are some people that reluctantly drive at night — they drive at night because they need to get home from work or […]

Executive Interview: Navid Alipour, co-founder Analytics Ventures

From a beachhead in healthcare, firm aims to apply its venture studio model and own pool of data scientists to more industries Navid Alipour is co-founder and managing partner at Analytics Ventures, a global venture studio providing end to end infrastructure and to plan, form, launch, fund, and validate brand new ventures in Artificial Intelligence. […]

Machine Learning Takes On Sepsis

By Deborah Borfitz, Senior Science Writer An early-stage startup is endeavoring to help clinical teams deliver high-value critical care with precision, and its first target is sepsis—a life-threatening complication of infection that kills one in three stricken adults and one in 10 kids. Its chief tactics are to “organize behavior at the bedside” and make […]

Prime Therapeutics Using AI to Analyze Prescription Data, Detect Fraud

By AI Trends Staff Prime Therapeutics, a drug cost management firm 66,000 client pharmacies and 28 million members, is working with software supplier SAS to analyze prescription ordering data in an effort to identify fraud. Owned by the Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance organization, Prime Therapeutics is having some success in its efforts. The […]

AI of Sensors: Preview of the Sensors Summit, Dec. 10-12, San Diego

By AI Trends Staff Sensors have become ubiquitous. Current advances in sensor technology are revolutionizing nearly every aspect of our society. But it’s the symbiosis of sensors and AI that’s so compelling.  By blending hardware and software, sensors can interact with the physical world and connect to the digital world. If this is the kind […]

Canarying and AI Autonomous Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider The coal miner looked furtively at the cage holding a canary. There was a chance that in this new part of the mine, there could be seeping carbon monoxide gas. Carbon monoxide is colorless and odorless, and other miners had died by being caught unawares that they were […]

How SparkBeyond Is Using AI To Ask The Right Questions

By Benjamin Ross Six years ago, Sagie Davidovich and Ron Karidi wanted to see if they could find a way to harness all of humanity’s collective intelligence using artificial intelligence (AI). Now, their co-founded startup, SparkBeyond, is making waves in AI, using their platform to ask the questions about data we’ve never thought of asking […]

AI World 2019 Reporters’ Notebook: European Commission Warning On Data Privacy; News from Exelon, PARC, CVS, and More

The AI World Conference & Expo is packed few days with news emanating from the Expo floor, the plenary sessions, a hackathon and tracks. There’s more good stuff than a writer can possibly fit into post-event coverage. Our Reporters’ Notebook comprises some of the bits and pieces that we collected over the three days in […]

Modzy Aims to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption with Pre-trained Models

By AI Trends Staff The consulting firm Booz Allen has announced Modzy, a product aimed at accelerating the deployment of AI applications in the enterprise. The company has assembled AI models from its own experience, from open source communities, and technology partners. Modzy provides an environment for the models to be uploaded, managed, and deployed. […]

Uber’s Data Science Strategy: People, Product Lifecycle, Platformization

By Allison Proffitt, AI Trends Editorial Director “Uber is making decisions in real time at global scale, while needing to take into account local nuances of the marketplaces,” explained Franziska Bell, Director, Data Science, Data Science Platforms, Uber. “And, of course, we also want to incorporate the user preferences on the product.” As a result, […]