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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

IBM and XPRIZE , the Culver City organization which runs major challenges to advance technology and help apply innovation to solving some of the world's biggest challenges, have announced a new IBM Watson AI PRIZE. The new prize will be awarded in 2020, and rules for the new competition will be announced in May. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based Ampsy , the social content sharing and aggregation software developer led by Jeremy Gocke, has linked into IBM's Watson technology, saying it is using the machine learning technology as part of a new analytics offering. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Artificial intelligence innovation has become part of our everyday lives—retailers use it to tailor the product recommendations they make; biotech companies hope it can create customized medicine. Take, for example, facial recognition technologies that work best on white people and make the most errors on black people.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Westlake Village-based Eta Compute , a company developing machine learning software for embedded devices like mobile phones, has named Dr. Ted Tewkbury as its new CEO. Eta Copute says it is working on delivering machine learning to mobile and edge devices. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

[ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. technologies. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

XPRIZE has a number of existing challenges, including the $20M NRG Cosio Carbon X PRIZE aimed at carbon capture technology; the $10M ANA Avatar X PRIZE focused on developing avatar technology; the $5M IBM Watson X PRIZE focused on developing artificial intelligence technology, among many others.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from technology leaders about 2018 trends and 2019 forecasts. 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.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Lin was previously CFO at Mavenlink and Cake, and also served at Gehry Technologies and Fast Search and Transfer. The company said that Lin will play a "vital role" in its growth, directing financial strategy, business planning, and operations.

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JULY 27, 2016

The startup, led by Ryan Detert, says it helps marketers reach more than 7,000 top influencers on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Vine and YouTube, using artificial intelligence technology from IBM Watson. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

2018 was a year of ups and downs for the business and technology community. Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity remained front and center in tech, as new. It was a year of big exits—both IPOs and acquisitions—for tech and life sciences companies. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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. Last fall, A.I. Apple joined the group as another founding member earlier this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Innovation doesn’t even require technology.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In it, he said medicine needed to be reinvented and he predicted a new era in which artificial intelligence might replace most of the functions that doctors do now—and do it much better, leaving physicians free to concentrate on the human element of care. It’s been quite a ride since then.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

It has been a big summer for developers ready to do a deep dive into open source projects and the Internet of Things (IoT) with IBM’s announcement of two new communities created in its developer-centric hub developerWorks , aimed at giving developers the perfect sandbox to play in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2018

Artificial intelligence is poised to infiltrate nearly all aspects of human life. Given this development, technologists are focusing on how to ensure the technology usage is governed by ethics. The general rule is that power begets responsibility,” says Michael Stewart, founder and CEO of Lucid AI , an AI startup in Austin. “If

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MARCH 1, 2017

Next week is the Montgomery Summit (www.montgomerysummit.com), one of the longest running technology conferences held in Los Angeles. It's now an internationally recognized showcase for technology here in Los Angeles, and we also get to showcase Southern California companies, as well. We've seen some notable successes.

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Blockchain technology can help tell that tale. The food we buy in grocery stores and restaurants has a story to tell about where it came from and each step it took on its journey to your dinner table. The story many food companies want to tell these days is about safety.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

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. 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.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2017

Our most exclusive conference, formally called The Napa Summit: The Xconomy Retreat on Technology, Jobs, and Growth, is limited to no more than. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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StartUp Beat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

With a focus on subjects like AI, blockchain, and machine learning, the event sets up over 220 roundtable sessions covering the current and future applications of technologies. The success of the event earned it partners of the highest caliber, including IBM, Microsoft, and PWC.

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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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APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. Ours is automated, and uses machine learning in the background.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—IBM’s Watson Health group said that a commercial product could arrive in 2017 that uses machine learning to digest patient scans, medical records, and other information to help doctors with care decisions. Biostage cut ties with the surgeon in 2014.

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