Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2017

But a startup contest held Tuesday at a machine learning conference in Cambridge, MA, put a twist on the typical scenario: the startups were judged by an artificial intelligence software program, instead of a panel of investors. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

AstraZeneca says it will establish centers for drug research and artificial intelligence development in China. The pharmaceutical giant has also set up a $1 billion fund to foster biotech innovation in that country.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2017

Challenging work, ongoing training, an opportunity to advance without having to become a manager, and a talented peer group all help companies recruit and retain these sought-after “ninjas”—the individuals who can do what artificial intelligence security tools can’t.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Responses from individuals in Seattle and San Diego touch on the rapid advance of machine learning, tech’s full-scale invasion of digital health, dramatic growth in blockchain and cryptocurrency, an outpouring of private support for computer science at University of Washington (perennially a top recipient of federal research funding), and the spreading (..)

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2019

—Ezoic, a startup that developed software for web publishers that uses machine learning techniques to personalize layouts and ad placements for site visitors, raised $33 million to further develop its technology. Read on for news of recent financings, plus upcoming opportunities to connect with the local tech community.

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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2018

In the Boston office of GE Ventures, managing director Alex de Winter is overseeing investments in companies like Veracyte, which is applying machine learning to genomic sequencing technology to help doctors distinguish benign growths from cancer. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

If you visit a movie blog, and read about a particular film, it immediately links to sites where you can buy or rent that film. Another example is WolframAlpha , an amazing computational engine that went live recently, which creates intelligent results, graphs, and reports from any natural language question.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of. But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2017

Artificial intelligence is a booming business in 2017, but one that also comes with significant baggage in the form of public misunderstanding, potential job losses, and fear. Last fall, A.I.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

That’s according to Yann LeCun , a machine learning expert and Facebook’s director of A.I. As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S.

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

These days, Thrun seems just as excited by another imprint he’s made on the still-forming AV industry—not as a researcher, but as an entrepreneur in online education.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2019

trillion annually, according to IHL, a Tennessee firm that specializes in retail and hospitality research. “Something like one out of eight or 10 items is typically not in stock.” Inaccurate inventory costs retailers $1.1 Pensa, an Austin startup. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Hylton was previously the executive vice president of strategy and research at Brain Corp., in 2012, Hylton led a team that developed BrainOS, software technology designed to enable robotic systems to adapt to their environments and learn from humans. After joining Brain Corp. At Brain Corp., Mine are in business and government.”.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

COVID-19 research efforts are often described as a race between companies, a description that reflects the urgency to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. The description is not quite right. A race has one winner and public health officials have said we’ll need multiple vaccines to address the global need.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Earlier this month, GM CEO Mary Barra told the crowd at a financial conference that her company was on track to unveil a ridesharing service in 2019 that would be powered by autonomous vehicles.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Here is a quick recap of the other presentations at the event: — Trials.ai , presented by co-founder and CEO Kim Walpole, has developed cloud-based software intended to help contract research organizations and pharmaceutical companies manage their clinical trials. was founded as Catalyst eClinical.).

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2019

San Diego’s prowess in computer science, medical devices, and life sciences makes it a natural hub of innovative digital health companies.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Austin —Apple expects to make thousands of new hires around the country from Seattle to New York, the company announced Thursday, with its biggest growth planned for Austin, TX. The computer and smartphone manufacturer plans to hire 5,000 new employees in Austin and to spend $1 billion building a new campus on the north end of Austin.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Take Watson , IBM’s artificial intelligence platform as an example: it has advanced significantly since it handily defeated human opponents on the Jeopardy game show four years ago. Luckily, we are still in control of the machines, but who knows what can happen with all the connected devices and smart computers?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We’ve identified 32 representative companies to date—and the list is far from comprehensive (we plan to keep adding to it as we learn about more companies). A companion piece focuses on a new institute and sub-cluster of companies and research groups developing in the Raleigh-Durham area around soil health.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

For those just tuning in, The Immunity Project is a nonprofit initiative using a unique combination of crowdfunding and venture capital, along with a novel machine learning approach in devising an HIV vaccine. Applied machine learning techniques developed by Microsoft. Something else I learned from the Reddit AMA.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Microsoft is applying the same model it used to launch its quantum computing and chatbot efforts to innovation in healthcare, signaling the company’s ambition and optimism about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence technologies in this enormous endeavor.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

The technology is available for use in neural computing to support machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and signal processing. The company worked under a contract with DARPA, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and for other defense agencies, but Dilligan would not be more specific.

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

Today a virtual version of the ASCO conference, the cancer field’s largest, kicks off, with oncologists and others tuning in from throughout the country and around the world to check out the latest in cancer research.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Frank Vinluan reports from North Carolina on a new effort to boost agtech startups and university research. San Antonio Entrepreneur Center Opens Using Dallas Nonprofit as Model. Austin’s Lucid Aims to Make Artificial Intelligence More Human. Bruce Bigelow lays out the business challenges of drone companies such as 3D.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers are planning a cancer trial that could be the first ever to use the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 to create a human therapy. Let’s get right to it. The trial plan passed muster with a federal oversight committee earlier this week, but it still must gain FDA approval to begin.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Schwartz also wants to see more federal funding for research and development of cybersecurity automation technologies. That’s a focus for Cybereason and other security firms, who are applying machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to protecting networks and IT systems.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

MYTH 4: Research institutions are stronger in NorCal. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77 Let’s compare.

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