Machine Learning News Issue 27

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A Short History Of Deep Learning -- Everyone Should Read Deep learning is a topic that is making big waves at the moment. It is basically a branch of machine learning (another hot topic) that uses algorithms to e.g. recognize objects and understand human speech. Scientists have used deep learning algorithms with multiple processing layers (hence "deep") to make better [...]

Email marketers, meet your new cubicle mate: machine intelligence In a few years, email copywriters may spend more time editing and approving copy than writing it, and email designers may not actually design "emails" at all. Why? Because of advancements in machine learning and automation. Litmus (my employer) recently asked more than 1,100 marketers: "Will machine learning, AI, and predictive software ever determine the majority of the content (subject lines, images, copy, etc.)

10 Female Students Funded for Science Research by Luce Foundation Holly Foster Posted March 22, 2016Ten women participating in summer research in the Hamilton College Chemistry, Computer Science and Physics departments have been recognized as Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Research Scholars.

In this online demo, IBM's Watson will tell you what's in your photos Image recognition is a hot area of research using artificial intelligence, and now IBM offers an online demo to let anyone test out the capabilities offered by its Watson cognitive computing system. Six sample photos are provided for illustration, or you can upload your own and ask Watson to analyze them.

Machine learning is reshaping security At the recent RSA Conference it was virtually impossible to find a vendor that was not claiming to use machine learning. Both new and established companies are now touting "machine learning" as a major component of the data science being used in their products. This article answers the following: What the heck is machine learning anyway?

Review: Amazon puts machine learning in reach Amazon Machine Learning gives data science newbies easy-to-use solutions for the most common problems As a physicist, I was originally trained to describe the world in terms of exact equations. Later, as an experimental high-energy particle physicist, I learned to deal with vast amounts of data with errors and with evaluating competing models to describe the data.

Former nuclear physicist Henri Waelbroeck explains how machine learning mitigates high frequency trading Henri Waelbroeck seems to fit the popular image of the scientist transplanted into the world of high finance and hedge fund trading, the sort of stereotype found in books like "The Fear Index" by Robert Harris. Waelbroeck, director of research at machine learning-enhanced trade execution system Portware, was previously a professor at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences at the National University of Mexico (UNAM).

With Machine Learning, Microsoft Takes Holistic Approach to Security -- Redmond Channel Partner Channeling the Cloud CEO Satya Nadella's $1 billion security initiative yields fruit with the Azure Security Center, powered by the technology behind Azure Machine Learning. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella late last year outlined the company's $1 billion investment in a new, holistic, operations-centric approach to addressing cybersecurity with the formation of its Enterprise Cybersecurity Group (ECG).

Machine Algorithm Predicts Startup Success For Novelti Last week we previewed this in " How Machine Learning APIs are Being Used to Predict Startup Success." Can there be a quantifiable way to hedge investors' risk and ensure they are betting on the right horse? According to the startup "jury" algorithm PreSeries, it's mathematically probable to predict which startup is most likely to succeed and that startup is Novelti.

Machine learning, AI and digital intelligence's effect on business How far is too far when it comes to machine learning? We live in the digital age where companies like Google collect information which feeds and informs their algorithms, potentially advancing their technology into the realm of the uncomfortable. When it comes to digital AI and algorithmic predictions, when do we say enough is enough?

Machine Learning News Issue 26

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When It Comes To Security, It's Time For A Machine Learning Sanity Check Is machine learning really the only solution to our cybersecurity woes?

Machine learning algorithm can identify drunken tweeting Maybe the one single thing more regrettable than drunk texting is drunk tweeting. Publicly broadcasting intoxication is definitely not the best way to bolster one's social media clout, and yet a lot of people can't resist boasting about their alcoholic escapades.

Creating a March Madness bracket with Machine Learning March Madness is upon us here in the US. This annual college basketball competition pits 64 teams in a single-elimination tournament, and the team that goes undefeated for all 6 rounds will be named NCAA Champion.

New Tech That Raises Red Flags About Prospective Clients A prospective client recently telephoned Rob Hockett and asked if he could, through Hockett's firm, invest $5 million in emerging market funds. To most advisors, such a scenario probably would sound enticing, but also prompt wariness. It sure did for Hockett. "The first question we asked was, 'Does this follow our investment philosophy?'

What's Next In Machine Learning? What are good research topics in machine learning in 2016? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Carlos Guestrin, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in Computer Science & CEO of Dato, Inc., on Quora.

How real businesses are using machine learning There is no question that machine learning is at the top of the hype curve. And, of course, the backlash is already in full force: I've heard that old joke "Machine learning is like teenage sex; everyone is talking about it, no one is actually doing it" about 20 times in the past week alone.

Remember a movie but not its name? This website will solve that. If you've ever remembered vague details about a movie but couldn't remember its name, whatismymovie.com is for you. Dubbed 'the world's first ever descriptive movie search engine', the website could be the difference between remembering that movie where the 'equestrian reporter meets an actress' and Notting Hill.

First Person: A conversation with Jeff Dean, senior fellow at Google Research While both flattered and a little embarrassed by this April Fools joke that keeps on giving, Dean is actually quite serious about his work. As a senior fellow at Google Research, Dean spends his days working on deep neural networks (also known as "deep learning," a subset of machine learning), which is modeled after the human brain.

Azure Machine Learning Really Disrupt The Data Science Azure Machine Learning Really Disrupt The Data Science | Technology | International | Bdaily UK | Business News

Adobe Lightroom Taps Machine Learning For Improved Search That Can ID Your Photos Adobe is testing out new features for their Creative Cloud suite of programs. Dubbed 'Technology Previews,' the first one up for public testing is a new Search feature for Lightroom on the web that uses machine learning to help users find specific images using certain keywords.

Machine Learning News Issue 25

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Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning Powers Staples Ordering System Staples Inc., facing tough competition in office supplies from online players, rolled out a new system Tuesday that taps natural language processing and machine learning. The intent is to fit purchasing into the typical way a company works, rather than require that customers return to their desks to access a special application for ordering, said Shira Goodman, president of North American operations.

Lucasfilm Alumnus Turned Epic Games CTO: Next Frontier for Virtual Reality Is Artificial Intelligence Getting virtual reality ( VR) to look great was the easy part. Now, it's up to researchers and developers to make it feel human, said Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri during an interview with Variety on the sidelines of the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, asking: "We can make a really good-looking digital human - but when do we give it a brain?"

Penn professors use machine-based process to predict domestic violence reoffenses Two Penn professors found that the use of machine-learning forecasts at domestic violence arraignments could substantially reduce repeat domestic violence arrests. Social policy professor Susan B. Sorenson of social policy and criminology and statistics professor Richard Berk looked at 28,646 domestic violence arraignments that led to charges and releases between January 2007 and October 2011.

How machine learning forecasts the future for careers at Bing - JobsBlog: Life at Microsoft At first, it sounded like a disaster. Walter Sun, whose job was to make sure Bing gave users the most up-to-the-minute information about current events, was seeing a big spike in the number of people searching for facts about some type of plane incident on the Hudson River.

Exotel launches Exotel Labs to research machine learning media_releases Cloud telephony company Exotel has announced the launch of Exotel Labs. Exotel Labs will have a team of researchers specializing in machine learning, data mining and signal processing. Editor's Pick Latest Videos FAST TRACK SLIDESHOWS Tech Chat FOLLOW CHANNELWORLD Signup for our newsletter and get regular updates.

Adobe Lightroom's new Search feature uses machine learning to ID your photos Lightroom users who sync their photos to the app's Web module can now test out a new and improved way to locate specific images: Search. As part of a new Lightroom Technology Preview series debuting today, Adobe is making the search feature available to Creative Cloud Photography Plan subscribers to test and offer feedback before finalizing it.

[Video] From Machine Learning Startup to Big Data Company The process of Machine Learning is dependent on algorithms that can learn from the data without relying on the rules of programming. The technology came into existence in the late 90's as the age of digitization began. As the big data gained volume, the process of machine learning got more advanced.

Of Broker Dealers, Machine Learning, Capital Utilization, and Profitability Front Office Trading Trends and Technologies... Over the past couple of years I have had the good fortune to discuss the need for improved understand of profitability and capital utilization in broker dealers. Frustrations abound. Discussions on the need to find the right clients to meet the balance sheet utilization mix meander with no clear end in sight.

Four Reasons Marketers Should Be Excited About Machine Learning Machine learning is generating a lot of chatter lately, making myriad marketers scramble to figure out to use it. Despite all the excitement surrounding machine learning, however, marketers still struggle with how to view it, what to expect from it, and how best to use this new technology.

April 6: Cybersecurity lecture 10:11 a.m., March 17, 2016--Cybersecurity expert James Nolan will deliver the third and final lecture in a series hosted by the University of Delaware Cybersecurity Initiative on Wednesday, April 6. The lecture, "Machine Learning Techniques and Applications for Text, Imagery, and Video Processing," will take place in Mitchell Hall from 2:30-3:30 p.m., with a reception to follow in the lobby of DuPont Hall.

Machine Learning News Issue 24

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How to use deep learning AI to detect and prevent malware and APTs in real-time The number of new malware variations that pop up each day runs somewhere between 390,000 (according to AV-TEST Institute) and one million (according to Symantec Corporation). These are new strains of malware that have not been seen in the wild before. Even if we consider just the low end figure, the situation is still dire.

Google Now Will Soon Work Offline, Tapping Machine-Learning To Know Your Preferences Google Now is about to get a lot better in the future, aiming to serve Android users even when they're offline. With smartphones increasingly gaining ground, digital assistants have become widely popular and heavyweight companies are competing to deliver the best software in this category.

The Perfect Pairing: Machine Learning and Wine Stumbling through overwhelming aisles of wines, it can be daunting to find the perfect match to that asparagus-heavy dish. There are pairing tables, books and websites filled with descriptions and ratings, but they aren't quite an exact science. Seeking out and buying a wine, only to realize you've gone the

Orange Tests Deep-Learning Software to Identify Fraud French telecom operator Orange is testing deep learning software from startup Skymind to help it identify fraud. Enterprise software that uses deep learning is growing quickly in the enterprise.

New 'Machine Unlearning' Technique Wipes Out Unwanted Data The success they achieved during these initial evaluations have set the stage for the next phases of the project, which include adapting the technique to other systems and creating verifiable machine unlearning to statistically test whether unlearning has indeed repaired a system or completely wiped out unwanted data.

Summer School on Machine Learning for High Energy Physics 2016 For the organizers of the Summer School on Machine Learning for High Energy Physics 2016: This is the first announcement of the Summer School on Machine Learning for High Energy Physics 2016, to be held at Lund, Sweden, June 20-26, 2016, as a satellite event of LHC Physics Conference: http://bit.ly/mlhep2016.

Startup uses machine learning to test for dementia Recently I wrote about a new service being offered by tech giant IBM to utilize machine learning in the field of radiology. The service, called Avicenna, hopes to identify anatomical features and abnormalities in medical images, and by taking this analysis and cross-referencing it with the patient's medical record provide support for a successful diagnosis.

Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm At the time, it was a revolutionary idea. "Feeds are a powerful way for users to navigate the web and get to the information they need," Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist and early investor in Twitter, wrote in a personal blog post in 2008.

Machine-Learning Algorithm Identifies Tweets Sent Under the Influence of Alcohol Sending your ex-partner a teary-eyed tweet at 1 a.m. after a bottle of chardonnay isn't necessarily the best of way of achieving reconciliation. We all know that alcohol and tweeting is not always a good combination. Yet a surprising number of us indulge in this peculiar form of indiscretion.

The Internet Of Things And Machine Learning IDC says the Internet of Things (IoT) market will be $1.7 trillion by 2020. Moor Insights & Strategy (MI&S) believes Machine learning will drive a portion of this revenue. Machine learning is the ability of a machine to vary the outcome of a situation or behavior based on knowledge or observation--essential for IoT solutions.

Machine Learning News Issue 23

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The Future of Machine Learning: Trends, Observations, and Forecasts - DATAVERSITY The fundamental assumption in Machine Learning is that analytical solutions can be built by studying past data models. Machine Learning supports that kind of data analysis that learns from previous data models, trends, patterns, and builds automated, algorithmic systems based on that study.

Shutterstock now uses machine learning to help you find just the right photo Shutterstock is today launching a couple of tools that will make it easy for users to find photos without having to figure out the right keywords for what they're looking for: reverse image search and visually similar search. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

HPE's Haven OnDemand offers 'machine learning as a service' If 2015 was the year analytics tools became ubiquitous in enterprise software, 2016 is shaping up to do much the same for machine learning. Just last week artificial-intelligence startup Nervana launched an offering that promises "deep learning on demand," and on Thursday Hewlett Packard Enterprise released a product of its own for what it calls "machine learning as a service."

Machine learning underpins data-driven AI: Una-May O'Reilly Una-May O'Reilly is one of the keynote speakers at the two-day EmTech India 2016 event, to be held in New Delhi on 18 March Mumbai: Una-May O'Reilly, principal research scientist at Anyscale Learning For All (ALFA) group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has expertise in scalable machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, and frameworks for large-scale, automated knowledge mining, prediction and analytics.

Bloomberg uses machine learning to measure pre-trade liquidity risk Bloomberg is launching a new tool that leverages machine learning to measure dozens of factors influencing liquidity to help traders better measure their costs to liquidate different securities. The tool, called the Liquidity Assessment Tool (LQA), employs technology that has been in development for more than six years.

Predictive models cannot learn or spot monolithic events The topic of machine learning in the fraud prevention space is one which is constantly on the lips of both financial institutions and merchants looking to exploit advances in IT infrastructure and intelligent computing to protect their businesses from possible danger. However, we may find ourselves asking what really is machine learning?

Impact of Information Technology and Machine Learning on Marketing Introduction of information technology has been, by far, one of the most revolutionary incidents in the business landscape. Nearly all the industries and service sectors rely on extensively on information technology today to carry out the regular operations. From manufacturing and machinery to retail and web-based services, all depend on technology that leverages the power information in some or the other way.

How Machine Learning APIs are Being Used to Predict Startup Success That's the question they will be looking to answer-for the first time in history. If artificial intelligence has a continued track record of enhancing and advancing our decision-making skills, it presents itself as an interesting way to better determine which startups are safer to invest in.

AI is closer than we know Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest subjects these days, and recent advances in technology make AI even closer to reality than most of us can imagine. The subject really got traction when Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and more than 1,000 AI and robotics researchers signed an open letter issuing a warning regarding the use of AI in weapons development last year.

Meet The App That Uses A Neural Network To Describe The World If you ever wanted to see how good (or not) AI and neural networks are at accurately identifying things, you should check out a new iOS app called AI Scry.

Machine Learning News Issue 22

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Top 100 Influencers In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - CTOvision.com Artificial Intelligence is the discipline of thinking machines. It has been a field of growing interest since 1955 when John McCarthy first coined the term, defining it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines." The largest players in technology today, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, are all investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence.

Avoid drowning in data with data analytics software If you're drowning in data, machine learning software may be an anchor, with data analytics software often a better solution. By Dan Hebert, PE, contributing editor . Email him at Dan Hebert is a contributing editor for Control and Control Design dhebert@putman.net.

Swipely Is Now Upserve & It's Leaning on AI to Make Restaurants Smarter Say goodbye to Swipely, and say hello to Upserve. The venture-backed Providence, R.I.-based tech company announced the name change on Monday, and with it some major updates to its restaurant analytics and management software. Two of the new features involve the use of artificial intelligence to help restaurants improve their bottom line.

Knowledge Gap Series: The Myths Of Analytics - Dark Reading Do you have your eye on machine learning or a nice neural network to help your security team make decisions faster? Be aware that there are quite a few myths circulating about how these work; even the language used can be confusing.

How machine learning could affect the success of a business On a basic level, algorithms are created to facilitate machine learning. They are strings of data fed to a computer to help it make decisions. But as well as helping you predict what to watch next on Netflix, they could also be used more controversially.

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Machine-Learning Algorithm Aims to Identify Terrorists Using the V Signs They Make Terrorists often use masks, scarfs, and hoods to hide their identities. But a new approach aims to distinguish them using the shape of their fingers when they make the "V for victory" sign. Every age has its iconic images.

Google is using machine learning to teach robots how to grasp random objects Using your hand to grasp a pen that's lying on your desk doesn't exactly feel like a chore, but for robots, that's still a really hard thing to do. So to teach robots how to better grasp random objects, Google's research team dedicated 14 robots to the task.

Startups Seek Big Data Leverage with Machine Learning It's well understood that machine learning is eating the software world, so it's no surprise to see tech startups like Cosmify and LodgIQ emerging from stealth today with plans to leverage big unstructured data for a competitive advantage.

MM Blog: Advances In Machine Learning Automation and artificial intelligence are increasingly helping high-tech manufacturers bolster their efficiency and performance. But getting computers to understand human language remains a significant hurdle to machine learning.

Machine Learning News Issue 21

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Machine Learning and Open Source: What You Need to Know Now by Sam Dean - Mar. 04, 2016 Comments (0) As 2016 begins, more bold predictions for the machine learning space are arriving, and there are very some promising, newly open sourced tools to know about. We've been covering these promising tools and conducting some relevant interviews with leaders in the machine learning space.

Natural Language Processing With Apache Spark - DZone Big Data This article focuses on natural language processing (text munging and machine learning) on the Apache Spark platform.

Google Touts Machine Learning, Cloud to Build Recommendation Engines A new tutorial offers developers pointers on how to implement recommendation engines using Google's cloud computing and machine learning technologies. Google released a primer of sorts for enterprises on how to use its machine learning and cloud platform technologies to build an online recommendation engine for their Websites.

Fighting food poisoning in Las Vegas with machine learning Computer science researchers from the University of Rochester have developed an app for health departments that uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to identify likely food poisoning hot spots. Las Vegas officials recently used the app, called nEmesis, to improve the city's inspection protocols.

Xero leans on Amazon for machine learning and to try and crack China Sharemarket darling Xero will move all customers onto Amazon Web Services over the next three months, in an effort to piggy-back on the US company's giant investments in machine learning and skirt trade restrictions in China. It comes as the company announced price increases for all of its 600,000 cloud accounting software customers on Friday.

4 Carnegie Mellon spinoffs acquired by global companies in 2015 - NEXTpittsburgh Udi Hershkovitch of Safaba. Photo by Brian Cohen. Pittsburgh is on a roll. While everything from the food scene to the arts scene has captured the media spotlight, here's what the global tech world sees: Autonomous cars, machine-translated language and robotics-assisted surgical access. That and more is all coming out of Pittsburgh.

AI crossword-solving application could make machines better at understanding language Researchers have designed a web-based platform which uses artificial neural networks to answer standard crossword clues better than existing commercial products specifically designed for the task. The system, which is freely available online, could help machines understand language more effectively.

Machine Learning Needs A Human-In-The-Loop Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a problem -- it's artificial. To be fair, AI and its sister disciplines of machine learning, cognitive computing, sentiment analysis and neural networking have a problem -- they're artificially created through the power of software developers' algorithms. Computers are great at analysing tough tactical situations, but are still not as good as humans at understanding long term strategy.

Fighting Food Poisoning with Machine Learning It's happened to many of us. We eat at a restaurant with less than ideal hygiene and come down with a nasty case of food poisoning. Foodborne illness afflicts 48 million people annually in the U.S. alone; 120,000 individuals are hospitalized annually, and 3,000 die from the illness.

Beagle uses machine learning to point out red flags in contracts A lawyer by training, Cian O'Sullivan spent several years as a contract negotiator before founding Beagle in 2014. The Kitchener, Ont. startup's product uses artificial intelligence to analyze contracts and facilitates real-time collaboration and review of documents. "A friend was bidding on a construction job.