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Meet the Xconomy Awards San Diego Digital Trailblazer Finalists

Xconomy

San Diego’s prowess in computer science, medical devices, and life sciences makes it a natural hub of innovative digital health companies. This is part of a series of articles about the finalists for the Xconomy Awards San Diego. Here are brief profiles of the finalists.

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A.I. in 2018: IBM Exec on Advances in Training, Trust, Transparency

Xconomy

Today’s artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated they’re capable of handling specific tasks, such as identifying pictures of cats or spotting cancer in CT scans. Researchers are hopeful the industry’s next breakthroughs will enable A.I. “I think we’ve gotten to a point where.

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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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Todd Hylton Adds Neural Tech Expertise to UCSD Robotics Institute

Xconomy

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. Hylton was previously the executive vice president of strategy and research at Brain Corp., After joining Brain Corp. At Brain Corp.,

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

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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The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

Xconomy

I moderated the panel, which consisted of experts in the complementary fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. Computers cannot yet deal well with ambiguity or uncertainty, so “natural” language may not work for mission-critical applications where we’ll define specialized languages.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. 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.