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Google Launching Its Own Computer Science Courses on Campuses

Xconomy

Early next year, twenty students will have the opportunity to study machine learning for 10 weeks with Google engineers, college professors, and coaches—free of charge. The course will then be held at four other higher education institutions in the summer. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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After Boom Years, Starburst and Podium May Signal Big Data’s Future

Xconomy

Then the tech industry moved on, and marketers crowned data science and machine learning the Next Big Things (at least until blockchain takes over). Of course, big data never really went away—though many companies did.

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Udacity Achieves 50,000 Nanodegree Grads Amid Company Reorganization

Xconomy

Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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Partnership on AI Adds Corporate, NGO Members, Charts Initial Course

Xconomy

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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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030

TechCrunch LA

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. “By the time Norman became an operating machine we had four generations of devices preceding it. .”

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REX: Skipping The MLS When You Sell Your Home, with Jack Ryan

socalTECH

Using big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, REX takes care of everything both buyers and sellers need, while removing traditional agent commissions of 5-6%. We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego. So you're not a marketplace?

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With Pellini on Board, Maris Sets Course at Section 32

Xconomy

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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