Machine Learning News Issue 36

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UCLA lab working to create machine that simulates touch Veronica Santos has been working to improve medical mechanical devices since she injured her elbow during a high school basketball game. Santos said the accident helped her realize the importance of research in upper limb prosthetics. Santos and her team of student researchers at the UCLA Biomechatronics Lab designed the BairClaw in 2014 to help people with upper limb disabilities experience touch.

MIT shows how AI cybersecurity excels by keeping humans in the loop - TechRepublic Cybersecurity threats are among the most pressing concerns for businesses and institutions that need to protect information, but today's security systems are limited. Most security systems fall into two categories: human analyst or machine learning.

New Fanuc Technology Connects Robots to Networks News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Rivals will be able to connect their machines and apps to the network TOKYO-Japanese industrial robot maker Fanuc Corp.

Machine learning tools pose educational challenges IT and analytics managers struggling with all the data flooding into their organizations may find it hard to ignore the increased marketing push machine learning tools are getting from technology vendors. And for good reason: Running automated algorithms designed to learn on their own as they churn through large data sets can accelerate data mining and predictive analytics applications -- and give users information they might not get otherwise.

The Effects of Machine Learning on Rankings and SEO The effects of machine learning on rankings and SEO For a long time search engines relied on static ranking factors. Those webmasters and SEOs who knew what to pay attention for were able to reach the best positions on Google's SERPs. This has changed recently and will be changing in the future: The increasing usage ...

Machine Translation: The Combination of Machine Learning and Human Intelligence - insideBIGDATA In this special guest feature, Vasco Pedro, CEO and Co-Founder of Unbabel, discusses the importance of machine translation for natural languages and how it currently lacks the quality companies demand for their content. Dr. Pedro' company is Unbabel, the Y Combinator-backed startup that combines crowdsourced human translation and machine learning to deliver fast translation services to businesses with human tone and nuance.

Spark, Kafka & machine learning: 10 big data start-ups taking analytics to the next level List: What start-ups are worth watching as they grow in the big data market? The rise of both structured and unstructured data has created a booming market that is expected to be worth around $41.5 billion by 2018.

Why machine learning is the new BI Business intelligence has gone from static reports that tell you what happened, to interactive dashboards where you can drill into information to try and understand why it happened.

How machine learning in the cloud can help enterprise security In January 2016, Microsoft published a blog post detailing how it is leveraging machine learning within Azure Security... Center. Specifically, Microsoft uses machine learning in the cloud to enhance its threat detection and simplify security management.

Researchers Use Machine Learning Algorithm To Pinpoint Brain Activity That Decodes Facial Expressions Using a machine learning algorithm in combination with fMRI images, a team of researchers uncovered the area of the brain that recognizes and decodes human facial expressions. By Tyler MacDonald | Apr 20, 2016 04:02 PM EDT A team of researchers at Ohio State University pinpointed the area of the brain that recognizes human facial expression.