Artificial intelligence is getting smarter, but it isn’t getting cleaner. In order to improve at predicting the weather, sorting your social media feeds, and hailing your Uber, it needs to train on massive datasets. A few years ago, an A.I. system might have required millions of words to attempt to learn a language, but today that same system could be processing 40 billion words as it trains, according to Roy Schwartz, who researches deep learning
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Autonomous drone technology has been used to deliver diabetes medication to a location off the west coast of Ireland. In an announcement Monday, the National University of Ireland (NUI) in Galway said the drone’s journey between Connemara Airport and Inis Mór, which is part of the Aran Islands, showed “the possibility of future deliveries of this kind within planned drone corridors.” The contents of the delivery were insulin and glucagon, while the drone also collected
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10/15: Las Vegas Bloggers Meetup 10/15: Microsoft Azure Meetup 10/15: Vegas Inventors Meetup 10/16: CODE Hearted Meetup 10/16: Las Vegas Unreal Engine 4 Meetup 10/16: Las Vegas WordPress Meetup 10/16: React Vegas Meetup 10/17: Chat Bots Meetup Group Interested in having a Meetup at Rob Roy’s Innevation Center? Email us at events@innevation.com
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Multi-Year Collaboration to Focus on Sports-Science, Data Analytics, and Student-Athlete Success LAS VEGAS – October 8, 2019 – UNLV and Switch (NYSE: SWCH) today announced that they have entered into a multi-year technology initiative focused on sports-science, data analytics and student-athlete success. This collaboration, enabled by a substantial financial commitment from Switch, is motivated by a mutual aspiration to establish Las Vegas as the world’s epicenter of sports. Switch, the global technology infrastructure corporation that develops hyperscale data center ecosystems
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Tom is an accomplished media, entertainment and technology executive with over three decades of diverse corporate and entrepreneurial operational and consulting experience. He was most recently the Chief Operating Officer of Outlook Amusements, a marketing and technology company focused on advice-based products and services. During his tenure there, Outlook delivered consistent double-digit profitable growth while becoming the category leader. Tom is a founding partner of SW14 Group LLC, a marketing and management/coaching consultancy. He
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When we think about how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) will impact our lives, there is both wonderment and fear. The wonder is tied to the spectacle of seeing robots move, grasp and carry out tasks with speed and efficiency. The fear is that robots will take over our jobs. Being in the tech industry, I don’t believe robots will replace all jobs. They will reshape the type of work humans will concentrate on, but
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10/01: International Game Developers Meetup 10/01: Las Vegas Women Entrepreneur Group 10/01: WooCommerce Meetup 10/03: Kubernetes Meetup 10/03: PHP Vegas Meetup 10/08: Ansible Las Vegas Meetup 10/08: Architect Anything Meetup 10/08: Las Vegas iOS Developers Meetup 10/08: Las Vegas SEO Social Media and Digital Marketing Group 10/09: Las Vegas Macintosh User Group Meetup 10/09: Las Vegas Ruby Users Group Meetup 10/09: Nevada Aerospace Professionals Meetup 10/10: .Net Meetup 10/10: 3D Printing Meetup 10/10: Las Vegas Pluralsight Meetup 10/10: Las Vegas Unity3D Meetup Interested in
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Wine growers have a neat, if unusual, trick for making more flavorful wine—don’t water the vines. Let the vines go dry right before harvest, and they will yield smaller grapes with more skin and less juice. Smaller grapes produce wine with a deeper color and more complex flavor. Trinchero Family Estates in Napa Valley, California wanted to make sure it was watering its grapes just the right amount, so they worked with Ceres Imaging to map their fields.
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Tom is an accomplished media, entertainment and technology executive with over three decades of diverse corporate and entrepreneurial operational and consulting experience. He was most recently the Chief Operating Officer of Outlook Amusements, a marketing and technology company focused on advice-based products and services. During his tenure there, Outlook delivered consistent double-digit profitable growth while becoming the category leader. Tom is a founding partner of SW14 Group LLC, a marketing and management/coaching consultancy. He
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Artificial intelligence holds a great deal of promise for medical professionals who want to get the most out of medical imaging. However, when it comes to studying brain tumors, there’s an inherent problem with the data: abnormal brain images are, by definition, uncommon. New research from Nvidia aims to solve that. A group of researchers from Nvidia, the Mayo Clinic, and the MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science this weekend are presenting a
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