Big Data Democratising Deep Learning: The Data Delusion Neil Lawrence is Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon, and Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Sheffield. His main technical research interest is machine learning through probabilistic models, with focuses on both...
Coding Talking Tech & Equality With the CEO of Women Who Code Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century mathematician and writer, who worked to create and program the world’s first computer. Today, she is still celebrated as a pioneer in science and technology, and a...
Machine Learning Forget Algorithmic Trading, This Startup Has Created an A.I. Analyst Although automation is not new in the stock market world, recent advancements in machine intelligence are enabling new techniques and tools using applied AI in the finance industry.Shaunak Khire is Co-founder...
Energy Reinventing Energy: Renewables vs. Fossil Fuels By 2020, renewable energy sources such as wind and solar will be cheap and easy to manage. Technological advances, environmental concerns and political backing will drive their adoption around the world.Renewable energy...
Deep Learning Video Interview With SwiftKey Founder & CTO Ben Medlock As co-founder and CTO of SwiftKey, Ben Medlock invented the intelligent keyboard for smartphones and tablets that has transformed typing on touchscreens. SwiftKey's smart typing technology learns from each user to more accurately...
Energy Are We Entering a Renewable Energy Tipping Point? Energy, the world’s largest industry, is currently undergoing a revolution. A switch towards renewable energy sources from the traditional fossil fuels we have relied upon to advance industrial and economic growth is...
Women in Tech How Can We Inspire More Women to Work in STEM? Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century mathematician and writer, who worked to create and program the world’s first computer. Today, she is still celebrated as a pioneer in science and technology, and a...
Deep Learning Top 10 Topics Not To Be Missed at the Machine Intelligence Summit The artificial intelligence market is growing rapidly, and companies are now looking to invest in technologies that can help them gain a competitive edge in business. What are the latest breakthroughs in machine...
Machine Learning Computational Sustainability: Mapping Poverty with AI Policies for sustainable development can entail complex decisions about balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs, and making these decisions in an informed way presents significant computational challenges. Modern AI techniques combined with new...
Neural Networks Should We Give Chatbots Their Own Personalities? Today, we have machines that assemble cars, make candy bars, defuse bombs, and a myriad of other things. They can dispense our drinks, facilitate our bank deposits, and find the movies we want...
Deep Learning Why Genomic Medicine Needs Deep Learning Brendan Frey is Co-founder and CEO of Deep Genomics, a company that aims to develop machine learning technologies to transform precision medicine, genetic testing, diagnostics and the development of therapies. His group has...
Deep Learning What Can We Expect For Chatbots in 2017 & Beyond? This year's explosion of the chatbots industry has been exponential, and the impact of virtual assistants can be felt throughout the tech world. But why now? How will the rapid spread of bots...
Big Data What Did You Miss at the Deep Learning Summit Last Week? On 22-23 September, over 500 founders, CTOs, business leaders, software engineers and entrepreneurs came together at the 2nd annual Deep Learning Summit in London, to explore the latest advancements in deep learning methods,...
Deep Learning Neural Attention: Machine Learning Meets Neuroscience Neural attention has been applied successfully to a variety of different applications including natural language processing, vision, and memory. An attractive aspect of these neural models is their ability to extract relevant features...
Deep Learning Extracting Customer Insights with Machine Learning In its relatively short lifetime, Airbnb has had over 100 million guests, with over 40 million of those occurring in the past year. Naturally, this exponential growth is a challenge to deal with...
Guest Blogs How We Built a Chatbot for Real People The App ecosystem is broken. There are millions of apps out there, and it is hard to find that one that suits you. Platforms do not seem to be investing enough in improving...
Deep Learning Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Honglak Lee Honglak Lee is Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2010, advised by Prof. Andrew...
Neural Networks Predicting Future Human Behavior With Deep Learning Carl Vondrick is a doctoral candidate and researcher at MIT, where he studies computer vision and machine learning. His research focuses include leveraging large-scale data with minimal annotation and its applications to predictive...
Energy Reinventing Energy: How Can A.I. Advance Renewables? We're excited to announce a new event in collaboration with New Scientist: the Reinventing Energy Summit, taking place in London on 25 November 2016. New Scientist produced a GameChangers report earlier this year,...
Virtual Assistant Summit How Can Chatbots Help Small Businesses? There are over 500 million small to medium businesses on the planet, and without them life as we know it simply wouldn’t exist. But more than 50 million of those businesses fail...
Energy The Inevitable Marriage of Solar Energy & Transport Since creating Stella, a solar-powered family car designed to travel over 1,000 kilometres on a single charge, Solar Team Eindhoven has received world wide notoriety and success, including World Solar Challenges and...
Deep Learning Visual Question Answering Problems: Reasoning With Deep Learning Ilija Ilievski is a PhD student at the National University of Singapore, studying interdisciplinary research in the intersection of vision and language. He believes question answering over multimodal data is the next frontier...
Deep Learning The Evolution of NLP: Natural Language Understanding Despite recent advances in AI, a deep understanding of natural language by machines still remains highly challenging. Antoine Bordes, Research Scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), is working to change this with...
Deep Learning Machine Intelligence Is Transforming Genomics & Precision Medicine New applications for artificial intelligence technologies are rapidly emerging, with healthcare often touted as the industry to be most disrupted by AI.Scientists are now developing machine learning technologies to transform precision medicine,...
Deep Learning Facebook AI Research: Learning Physical Intuition by Example Adam Lerer is Research Engineer at Facebook AI Research, where he works on distributed neural network training, computer vision, visual common sense, and graph embeddings. Prior to joining Facebook, Adam worked at D....
