Agtech From Cows to Crops: Computer Vision for Precision Agriculture Recent technological advances have allowed a step-change in the way the farmers, agronomists and plant breeders can gather and analyse data. Automated livestock welfare management, precision weed control and measurement of phenotypic traits...
Big Data Deep Learning in Healthcare Part 2: Future & Predictions View Part 1 of the discussion here. The application of artificial intelligence and deep learning in healthcare and medicine is often quoted to grow tenfold in 5 years, from algorithms that learn to...
Big Data Deep Learning in Healthcare Part 1: Opportunities & Risks The application of artificial intelligence and deep learning in healthcare and medicine is often quoted to grow tenfold in 5 years, from algorithms that learn to recognise complex patterns within rich medical data,...
Big Data Using Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection in Radiological Images Deep learning is usually linked to big data, but in a medical context radiologists often need help in diagnosing rare conditions that have limited historical data. Can deep learning prove a useful tool...
Future Cities Women in Tech: Equality, Challenges & Advice with Tia Kansara To mark International Women’s Day 2016, we interviewed leading women in the fields of science and technology, to celebrate their achievements and to explore the challenges faced by women in the sector....
Connected Home Can You Use Robotics to Double the Size of Your House? With more than 54% of the world's population now living in cities according to the U.N., many citizens are learning how to make do with less - especially when it comes to...
Deep Learning How Will Machine Learning Impact Personalised Medicine? Dr Sobia Hamid has been working in the area of personalised medicine and machine learning undertaking scientific and commercial due diligence and marketing for venture capital, biotech and pharma companies. With over 12...
Neuroscience Vivienne Ming: Women in Tech, Careers & Industry Barriers To mark International Women’s Day 2016, we interviewed leading women in the fields of science and technology, to celebrate their achievements and to explore the challenges faced by women in the sector....
Big Data Challenges of Stakeholder Engagement for a Truly Connected City Finding the time and space for everyone to meet to present, properly understand and then discuss a project can be time-consuming and difficult. Many online collaboration solutions provide for communications within a project...
Future Cities How Can We Make Cities Smart? Graham Southorn is a freelance science and technology writer and a former editor of BBC Focus magazine. He covers the science behind navigation and mapping for the HERE 360 blog. Thanks to social...
Future Cities How Can We Ensure Equality in Science and Technology? To mark International Women’s Day 2016, we’ve interviewed leading women in the fields of science and technology, to celebrate their achievements and to explore the challenges faced by women in the...
Future Cities Can We Crowdfund Our Way to Smarter Cities? Whether you want to transform a playground, bring an old building back to life, spruce up a park, repurpose an unused area or create something completely new, crowdfunding enables people to attract support...
Deep Learning Recap: Videos From RE•WORK Virtual Assistant Summit, San Francisco 2016 In San Francisco on 28-29 January 2016, the Virtual Assistant Summit brought together business leaders, influential technologists, data scientists and entrepreneurs creating next-generation virtual assistants. The summit showcased the opportunities of advancing trends...
Deep Learning Recap: Videos From RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit, San Francisco 2016 At this year’s Deep Learning Summit in San Francisco, over four hundred world experts, data scientists and entrepreneurs gathered for two days to explore the opportunities of advancing trends in deep learning...
Connected Home How Will Renewable Energy & Machine Learning Change Our Future Homes? In Stuttgart, Germany, a prototype house is demonstrating what is possible with state-of-the-art renewable energy and building automation technology.The Aktivhaus B10 is part of a research project exploring how materials, design and...
Energy Smart Cities: What Can We Expect in the Next 5 Years? Cities are a focal point in the mission to create a sustainable planet for future generations, as urban areas are at the heart of unprecedented population growth and subsequent global challenges such as...
Design & UX International Day of Women & Girls in Science: Part 3 This is Part 3 of 3 in our celebrations for International Day of Women and Girls in Science! View the full series here. As science and technology companies continue to grow rapidly, with...
Future Cities International Day of Women & Girls in Science: Part 2 This is Part 2 of 3 in our celebrations for International Day of Women and Girls in Science! As science and technology companies continue to grow rapidly, with tech giants like Facebook and...
Smart Cities International Day of Women & Girls in Science: Part 1 This is Part 1 of 3 in our celebrations for International Day of Women and Girls in Science! View the full series here. As science and technology companies continue to grow rapidly, with...
Future Cities Designing Intelligent Data Infrastructures for Smart Cities Dr. Larissa Suzuki is a Researcher at University College of London, where her innovative research contributes to a growing body of knowledge in smart cities and urban data management, as well as City...
Hydroponics Using Biomimicry to Create a Modular Urban Farming System As cities continue to rapidly expand, we need a resilient and sustainable method of food production. Are bio-inspired urban farming systems the answer?Groundless agriculture is a great way to grow clean food...
Big Data Scalable Data Science and Deep Learning with H2O.ai Named one of Fortune's 2014 Big Data All-Stars, Arno Candel is the Chief Architect at H2O.ai, a distributed and scalable open-source machine learning platform. H2O is a leading open-source in-memory machine learning...
Future Cities Creating Pollution-Eating Facades for Cleaner Cities We are facing an era of rapid urbanization, with 70% of the world's population expected to be living in urban areas by 2050. As our cities grow at an exponential rate, how will...
Deep Learning Deep Learning with Google Brain's Oriol Vinyals Oriol Vinyals is a Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain, previously completing his PhD with the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science department at UC Berkeley. His name has appeared in the news many...