Machine Learning News Issue 61

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Neural chip could aid voice recognition, man-machine learning -- Defense Systems Defense IT A neural chip technology startup focused on Siri-like human-machine interactions emerged from stealth mode this week to unveil "military-grade voice recognition and authentication technology" along with a proprietary neural processor approach.

LinkedIn Open-Sources Spark-Based Machine Learning Library LinkedIn continues its strategy of developing hot technology and open-sourcing it, this time a machine learning library for Spark called Photon ML. LinkedIn announced that it has open-sourced its machine learning library for Apache Spark, known as Photon ML. Apache Spark is an open-source cluster computing framework used for processing and analyzing big data.

Why Salespeople Need to Develop "Machine Intelligence" Artificial intelligence (AI) is on quite a run, from Google's AlphaGo, which earlier this year defeated Go world champion Lee Sedol four games to one, to Amazon's Echo, the voice-activated digital assistant. The trend is heating up the sales field as well, enabling entirely new ways of selling.

Google's DeepMind wants to bring AI learning to healthcare within 5 years Written by Max Green | Following an investigation that revealed DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence arm, has access to the U.K.'s National Health Service's vast records of identifiable patient data, another interesting internal memo has shaken loose, reports New Scientist .

Machine Learning in Objective-C Has Never Been Easier Taking the opportunity provided by our recent Spring release, BigML is pleased to announce our new SDK for Objective-C, bigml-objc, which provides a modern, block-based Objective-C API, and a new more maintainable and coherent design. Additionally, bigml-objc includes support for our exciting new DSL for the automation of ML workflows, WhizzML.

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Machine learning is trending - but what is it driving? 451 Research is focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation within emerging technology segments and provides timely insight to end user, service provider, vendor, and investor organizations worldwide.

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News: Machine learning can predict students' graduation with 74% probability In his Master's thesis, Lauri Viitanen analysed information about over 30 000 students from Metropolia to predict their graduation dates. In his thesis, Lauri Viitanen, a student of Computer Science and Engineering, applied survival models to the information in the student register at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences with the aim of finding variables that can best distinguish the students who will graduate from those who will drop out.

This tool taps machine learning to take the guesswork out of content marketing It's every marketer's goal to reach customers in the right place, at the right time and with the right message, but the online world doesn't make that easy. A new tool announced Thursday uses machine learning to help.