Day: May 11, 2021
DOD takes automation a step further with machine learning – FedScoop
Written by Jackson Barnett May 11, 2021 | FEDSCOOP Automating tasks has long been a goal of large workforces, and none is larger than the Department of Defense. With financial management systems that process a more than $700 billion budget annually, getting a helping (digital) hand can reduce wasted labor hours and costly mistakes. But…
NASA JPL building models of its petabytes of data with artificial intelligence – Federal News Network
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is capturing more data than ever in its history. That has Program Manager and Principal Computer Scientist Daniel Crichton excited about his mission: Using data to understand Earth, the solar system and beyond. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are critical to automating or extracting insight from the hundreds of petabytes of…
Building a Next-Generation Machine Learning Platform in the Cloud – Analytics Insight
by Analytics Insight May 11, 2021 “Are we asking the right question and drawing on best practices?” Going back to a discussion with an executive, I was super excited that my customer is building an AI platform. However, the question I got asked was would their teams adopt it? And that brought me to even…
AI Gets the Glory but ML is Quietly Making Fortunes
When we think about the future of data science, it’s easy to get carried away. For a couple of decades now, if you believe the hype, we’ve been on the verge of a revolution. A revolution in which “Artificial Intelligence” – as a vaguely defined but enormously powerful force – is always on the verge…
Machine Learning vs. Artificial Intelligence: Which Is the Future of Data Science?
When we imagine the future of AI, we may think of the fiction we see in cinema: highly advanced robots that can mimic humans so well as to be indistinguishable from them. It is true that the ability to quickly learn, process, and analyze information to make decisions is a key feature of artificial intelligence. …
A comprehensive map of the SARS-CoV-2 genome
In early 2020, a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, scientists were able to sequence the full genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the Covid-19 infection. While many of its genes were already known at that point, the full complement of protein-coding genes was unresolved. Now, after performing an extensive comparative genomics study,…
Global Shipping Logistics, Legal Risk And Compliance, Another Arena For Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Forbes
Artificial Intelligence Sergey Tarasov – stock.adobe.com When I was already writing this, a bit of shipping trouble in the Suez Canal caused a re-adjustment. The original introduction was going to point out that shipping logistics has a wider impact than most people consider. Now people are well aware of the supply chain issues that only…
How Does Machine Learning Hackathon Differ From Other Hackathons? – Analytics India Magazine
What comes to mind when you think of a ‘hackathon?’ Maybe a room full of computer programmers and developers pounding on keyboards while the audience cheers — just like in the movie The Social Network, where the guys in the dorm drink shots while they compete to become Facebook’s first intern or like the hackathon…
Mark Lee: ICF to Use AI/ML Approach to Support Automation of Federal Transit Administration’s Database – GovCon Wire
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 11, 2021 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) will use an artificial intelligence-based platform to support the Federal Transit Administration’s automation and modernization of the National Transit Database, Executive Biz reported April 28. Work is part of two five-year call orders awarded under the company’s Software Engineering Support blanket purchase agreement with the…
Artificial Intelligence without bias: Why it is needed and how we can ensure a fairer future – Express Computer
Read Article By Apratim Purakayastha Apratim Purakayastha, CTO, SkillsoftArtificial Intelligence (AI) is now here to stay as part of our lives. Numerous organisations across the globe have already taken AI maturity to the next level, and in just a few years, we will witness this number jump even higher. Large firms are working on revamping…