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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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7 Specifics Show How Startups Are All About Execution

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I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Bill was relentless in his focus on getting the software PC DOS project delivered, while continually challenging us with new business models. Only rare great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have proven to be both.

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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. For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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Chrome River: Building An Enterprise Software Leader In LA, with Dave Terry

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A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do? That's given us a lot of the attention in the space.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

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.

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7 Ways Entrepreneurs With Great Ideas Must Follow Up

Startup Professionals Musings

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Bill was relentless in his focus on getting the software PC DOS project delivered, while continually challenging us with new business models. Only rare great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have proven to be both.

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