Cambridge Innovation Institute Announces the Acquisition of the AI World Conference & Expo and AI Trends
CAMBRIDGE INNOVATION INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF THE AI WORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO AND AI TRENDS The Leading Artificial Intelligence Conference and Publication to Join Cambridge Innovation Institute’s Extensive Portfolio NEEDHAM, MA— (April 18, 2018) – Cambridge Innovation Institute (CII), announces the acquisition of Westborough, Massachusetts based Trends Equity, Inc., which includes the properties of […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Have you ever heard of the phrase “citizen scientists”? The phrases first entered into our lexicon in the mid-1990’s, and generally refers to the notion that ordinary everyday people can potentially contribute to the work of science, in spite of the fact that they aren’t professional scientists. We […]
Developing new medicines isn’t for the faint of heart. On average, it takes about a decade of research — and an expenditure of $2.6 billion — to shepherd an experimental drug from lab to market. And because of concerns over safety and effectiveness, only about 5 percent of experimental drugs make it to market at all. […]
Most IT leaders have heard of deep learning, but few really understand how this new technology works. Deep learning burst onto the public consciousness in 2016 when Google’s AlphaGo software, which was based on deep learning, beat the human world champion at the board game Go. Since then, deep learning has begun appearing in news reports […]
A startup company in California is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to advise fire departments about how to plan for earthquakes and respond to them. (Photo above shows first responders in the Marina District disaster zone after an earthquake on October 17, 1989 in San Francisco, Calif. The company, One Concern, hopes its algorithms […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider You might have seen in the news that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and its CEO, recently testified before Congress and included these key points: “Facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company. For most of our existence, we focused on all the good that connecting people can bring.” […]
One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command. Now, a little-noticed tax filing by a research lab called OpenAI has made some of those eye-popping figures public. OpenAI paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever (shown above), more than $1.9 million in […]
You wouldn’t normally think of a 177-year-old company as one that would be on top of digital transformation and emerging data analytics trends. But Dun & Bradstreet has always been a data business, way back in 1841 as the Mercantile Agency, a credit information bureau. Today the new technologies are a little different than they were in the […]