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This High School Student is Shaking Up AI With OpenAI Project

Since its founding by Elon Musk and others nearly two years ago, nonprofit research lab OpenAI has published dozens of research papers. One posted online recently is different: Its lead author is still in high school. The wunderkind is Kevin Frans, a senior currently working on his college applications. He trained his first neural net—the kind of system that tech […]

AI Courses Now Available from Microsoft

Microsoft has launched an online AI course for developers who want to expand their knowledge of machine learning, and an online entry-level software development class. Not enough data scientists and machine learning developers are available to fulfill the current demand. Thus a number of large companies have started to teach the fundamentals of these disciplines […]

Careers in 2018: Tips from a Top Data Analytics Recruiter

Demand for data scientists and other data and analytics professionals continues to grow in the job marketplace as enterprise organizations look to build out their business infrastructures for a new era. But even data scientists need to stay on top of new trends and technologies to stay relevant. That’s according to top data science and […]

MIT Growing business masters program with an AI focus; math and computer science are foundations

Michelle Li is director of the Masters of Business Analytics Program at MIT, from the MIT Sloan School of Management, with support from the MIT Operations Research Center, now in its second year. In this position, she is responsible for building the program, designing curriculum, hiring faculty, assessing admissions criteria for students and helping students […]