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IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition Opens Registration

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The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , the $5M competition being run by Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , has opened up registrations to teams, and has published guidelines for the artificial intelligence competition. According to the XPRIZE foundation, the idea is to demonstrate how "AI can be used as a tool for good."

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Mobilogix Expands Board

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SGUA International is a big manufacturer of electronics, including professional audio equiment, AV, smart cards, interactive education, Wi-Fi, and many othe rproducts. Ng has also worked at Nokia, Qualcomm, and IBM. Alfred Man Cheuk Ng, Chief Technology Officer of SUGA International Holdings Limited, to its board. READ MORE>>.

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IBM Introduces New Open Source Community for Developers

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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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Sonos Founder MacFarlane Steps Down As CEO

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According to MacFarlane, he will remain an employee of Sonos, where he will "help and advise" the company, and also focus on STEM education. Spence also had served at Research in Motion and IBM Canada. Spence has been President of Sonos since July of 2016, and had joined Sonos in 2012 as Chief Commercial Officer.

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UCI Rolls Out Big Data Program

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UCI said the program will use such software as Hadoop, Teradata, Knime, Aster, IBM-Netiza, HP-Veritca, Statistica, R, Python and Crystal Ball. UCI's Extension program is the continuing education arm of the university. READ MORE>>.

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Quantum Computing 101: Brilliant, Google, Microsoft Training Workers

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From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

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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. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.