Original Source: http://www.driverlesstransportation.com/13690-13690 July 19, 2016 Jennifer van der Kleut Ford Motor Company has joined a $6.6-million funding round for a startup company working on 3-D mapping. The company, Civil Maps, “uses spatial data to create ‘extremely accurate localization,’ explains ZDNet. Civil Maps “claims its technology is better suited to autonomous vehicles and mobile networks thanRead more
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By Daniel Laury | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Driving, tech news, Venture Capital | Comments are Closed | 21 July, 2016 | 0
By Daniel Laury | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Portfolio Companies, portfolio company news | Comments are Closed | 19 July, 2016 | 0
Original Source: http://bit.ly/2a4HrXt Sisense leverages AI and IoT devices such as the Amazon Echo and IoT Light Bulbs as first two innovations in program; early customers experience up to 500% increase in BI engagement and adoption July 12, 2016 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sisense, disrupting the BI market by simplifying business analytics forRead more
By Daniel Laury | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Portfolio Companies, portfolio company news | Comments are Closed | 17 July, 2016 | 0
Original Source: http://fortune.com/2016/07/15/amazon-echo-sisense/ by Heather Clancy @GreenTechLady JULY 15, 2016, 12:40 PM EDT Instead of typing a query, just ask Alexa. Picture this. You’re meeting with your board of directors. Someone requests more details about a sales forecast. Instead of booting up a laptop computer to dig up those numbers, you address the question verbally toRead more
By Daniel Laury | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Portfolio Companies, portfolio company news | Comments are Closed | 13 July, 2016 | 0
Original Source: http://tcrn.ch/29NQv5y Sisense, a company which helps customers link multiple data sources and summarize them in a single dashboard view, has been working on ways to understand the data outside of the context of a computer. Today, the company announced an initiative called Business Intelligence Virtually Everywhere. That could involve asking questions to a voice-driven system like the Amazon Echo or linkingRead more
Original Source: http://bit.ly/227bl0l JORDAN NOVET MARCH 10, 2016 11:06 AM TAGS: MICROSOFT, MICROSOFT RESEARCH, QUANTUM COMPUTING, STRUCTURE DATA, TOP-STORIES Above: Peter Lee, left, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, speaks with Bloomberg’s Jack Clark at the Structure Data conference in San Francisco on March 10. Image Credit: Sam Charrington Microsoft spends a lot of time andRead more
By Daniel Laury | Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Venture Capital | Comments are Closed | 26 February, 2016 | 0
Original Source: https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/hydra-leads-1-2-mln-seed-round-for-genomenext/ February 25, 2016 – By Stephanie Rogan GenomeNext LLC, an automated genomic analysis platform, raised $1.2 million in a seed financing round led by Hydra Capital and private investors. Columbus, Ohio-based GenomeNext is a spinoff from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, also based in Columbus. PRESS RELEASE COLUMBUS, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GenomeNext, LLC, a leader in genomic dataRead more
By Daniel Laury | Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, tech news | Comments are Closed | 25 February, 2016 | 1
Original Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/24/google-robot-is-the-end-of-manual-labor-vc.html Boston Dynamics’ new “Atlas” robot is a game changer, not just for companies, but for society, Insider.com CEO Jason Calacanis said Wednesday. “This is really the end of manual labor. When you watch this video, he’s walking through the snow; he’s wobbly, but he gets back up,” the tech investor told CNBC’s “SquawkRead more
By Daniel Laury | Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, tech news | Comments are Closed | 25 February, 2016 | 0
Original Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/02/24/alphabet-unleashes-new-humanoid-robot/ By JACK NICAS The Boston Dynamics unit of Alphabet Inc.GOOGL +0.50% released a video showing a new version of its humanoid robot Atlas walking out of its offices, trudging through a snow-covered forest — and withstanding abuse from its developers. The new Atlas is smaller than its predecessor and not tethered to a power cord,Read more
By Daniel Laury | Big Data, Deep Learning, Health Care | Comments are Closed | 21 February, 2016 | 0
Original Source: http://bit.ly/1RUfwd3 By Koren Wetmore / Tue Dec 8, 2015 Image credit: Steve Babuljak Healing Hands: Pharmacist Janel Boyle, PharmD, PhD (far left), who is developing dosing models tailored for children, comforts a young patient with her mother in the infusion clinic at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco. REPRINTED COURTESY OF UCSF MAGAZINE.Read more
By Daniel Laury | Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning | Comments are Closed | 8 February, 2016 | 0
Original Source: http://bit.ly/23TxgtK To learn more about Spark, attend Spark Summit East in New York in Feb 2016. Neural networks have seen spectacular progress during the last few years and they are now the state of the art in image recognition and automated translation. TensorFlow is a new framework released by Google for numerical computations andRead more