Machine Learning News Issue 37

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Lenovo is using machine learning to analyse unstructured data from YouTube and Instagram The world's biggest PC maker Lenovo is analysing unstructured data from social channels including YouTube and Instagram to help the firm build products with customers' feedback in mind. Mohammed Chaara, director of the Customer Insight Center of Excellence, Strategy & Analytics at Lenovo, explained that four years ago the firm had been an engineering and product-focused company.

Microsoft: Optimizing document search using Machine Learning and Text Analytics A few weeks ago, Eugene showed how the Azure Search Blob Indexer can enable full text search over files such as Office, PDF and HTML. During this time, we have learned that it is not uncommon for many of you to have a lot of files that result in large search indexes.

What is Machine Learning? What is Machine Learning? Part 4 of 7 in our AWS Innovation series | by James O'Keeffe, Pre-Sales Technical Lead at Bulletproof Machine Learning (ML) is a field of computer science that came out of research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data analytics. ML focuses on the creation

Intel's Machine Learning Strategy | Intel® Developer Zone Joseph Spisak, Director, Strategy and Business Development at Intel, discusses Intel's machine learning strategy and its impact.

Demystifying the Black Box: Adding Transparency to Machine Learning | Adobe The very mention of machine learning provokes anxiety-generating questions such as, "Will it replace humans?" and "How do I trust the results?" and "Will I need to get a degree in statistics?" We use machine-learning devices increasingly in our everyday lives.

Machine learning as good as humans' in cancer surveillance, study shows Machine learning has come of age in public health reporting. Researchers have found that existing algorithms and open source machine learning tools were as good as, or better than, human reviewers in detecting cancer cases using data from free-text pathology reports. The computerized approach was also faster and less resource intensive in comparison to human counterparts.

Why Machine Learning Is Our Last Hope for Cybersecurity Fraud detection. Customer recommendations. Search engine results. These use cases-and so many more-all owe a debt to machine learning. By automatically discovering patterns that lead to insights and creating predictive models that drive actions, the technology has proven its value many times, and to many industries.

Get On The Machine Learning Bandwagon With Google You can't help but notice the surge of interest in anything to do with machine learning. Now Google has launched a series of videos presenting machine learning recipes. And this adds to an existing heap of resources. AlphaGo's historic victory against the Korean Go champion Lee Sedol has had consequences.

Applying Machine Learning To Treat Paralysis - Tech Exec When Ian Burkhart was 19 years old, he was in an accident that damaged his spinal cord. He was paralysed from the chest down, losing all feeling in his hands and feet. Now a team of scientists and doctors in the USA have been able to restore some control in Burkhart's right hand through the use of innovative technology.

Machine learning is a key technology for Symantec More than a decade of investment in machine learning is paying off for security vendor Symantec. Symantec vice president global portfolio and solutions product management for enterprise security Bhagwat Swaroop (pictured) has been involved in the process of setting a course for the company following the divestiture of Veritas.