IBM has recruited a couple of new partners in its quest to mainstream its Watson cognitive computing system: financial investment specialist Vantage Software and the Institute of Culinary Education, or ICE… Read more »
The second-annual Structure Data Awards are here, where Gigaom picks the most-interesting and most-promising data startups that launched in the previous year. The winners, which range from a non-profit data science… Read more »
Facebook on Friday open sourced a handful of software libraries that it claims will help users build bigger, faster deep learning models than existing tools allow. The libraries, which is… Read more »
Chinese search engine company Baidu says it has built the world’s most-accurate computer vision system, dubbed Deep Image, which runs on a supercomputer optimized for deep learning algorithms. Baidu claims a 5.98… Read more »
Artificial intelligence is already very real. Not conscious machines, omnipotent machines or even reasoning machines (yet), but statistical machines that automate and increasingly can outperform humans at certain pattern-recognition tasks. Computer vision,… Read more »
GraphLab, a Seattle-based startup trying to make machine learning more accessible, has raised an $18.5 million series B round of venture capital and has changed its name to Dato. The company… Read more »
I take a lot of photos on my smartphone. So many, in fact, that my wife calls me Cellphone Ansel Adams. I can’t imagine how many more digital photos we’d have cluttering… Read more »
Smart devices, appliances and the internet of things are dominating International CES this week, but we’re probably just getting a small taste of what’s to come — not only in quantity, but… Read more »
Facebook has acquired Wit.AI, a San Francisco-based startup building a speech-recognition platform for the internet of things. The company launched early in 2014 raised a $3 million seed round in October… Read more »
In 1999, before internet of things was a buzz word and back when we still used floppy disks, there was a movie called Smart House. It was a Disney Channel Original… Read more »