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Jill Watson, Round Three

January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Georgia Tech News Center, 1/9/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Georgia Technical University is working on ways to improve Jill Watson, an artificial intelligence system that fills the role of a virtual teaching…

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Japanese Company Replaces Office Workers With Artificial Intelligence

January 13, 2017January 13, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: The Guardian, 1/5/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, an insurance firm in Japan, is replacing 34 workers with an AI system that will calculate payouts to policyholders.  They are…

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Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users

January 11, 2017January 17, 2017 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Bleeping Computer, 1/3/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Cybersecurity researchers recently discovered that ultrasound cross-device tracking (uXDT), in which a web page plays an ultrasound signal that prompts nearby devices to identify themselves…

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CES 2017: Alexa Is the Word as Amazon’s AI Comes to More Devices

January 9, 2017January 9, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: NBC News, 1/6/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Alexa, Amazon's voice-operated artificial intelligence assistant, is becoming more widely used in a variety of products, as more companies build and implement Alexa-based systems. This…

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A Wall-Crawling Roomba That Teaches Kids to Code

December 16, 2016December 15, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: The Atlantic, 11/30/2016 >> View the Article << Summary A team of engineers from Harvard University have created a robot named Root, along with a multi-language coding environment to program it. Their goal is…

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What’s the Role of Social Media in the News Media?

December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: PRI (Public Radio International), 12/10/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Fake news stories shared on social media played a major role in the spread of misinformation during the 2016 U.S. elections and after, even spurring…

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Uber Launches Artificial Intelligence Lab

December 13, 2016December 14, 2016 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: BBC News, 12/5/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Uber has acquired an artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Geometric Intelligence, and put the team to work on (among other things) self-driving cars. The company already…

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Microsoft, Code.org Target Beginner Coders With Minecraft Programme

December 12, 2016December 14, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: The Guardian (Nigeria), 12/9/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Mojang, Microsoft, and Code.org are teaming up to inspire a new generation of coders. The latest version of Code.org's Hour of Code is a…

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Infrastructure Data for Everyone

December 9, 2016December 12, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Technical University of Munich, 12/5/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Technical University of Munich researchers have created a project named OpenGridMap that maps the locations of electrical infrastructure (part of OpenStreetMap). Their goal…

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It’s No Christmas No. 1, but AI-Generated Song Brings Festive Cheer to Researchers

December 8, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: The Guardian, 11/29/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at the University of Toronto are working on a program that analyzes an image and then produces music based on the contents of that…

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Big Data Analytics — Nostradamus of the 21st Century

December 7, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: Griffith University, 11/30/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at Griffith University successfully predicted the winner of the 2016 presidential election, including the outcomes in 49 out of 50 states, using data collected from…

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Meeting of the Minds for Machine Intelligence

December 5, 2016December 13, 2016 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: MIT News Office, 11/22/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Industry leaders and computer scientists are pushing for more use of machine intelligence so that machines can aid doctors, business corporations, investors and many…

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