The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $895,000 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) through its program, Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAAN). With the funds, WPI will provide six needs-based fellowships to U.S. […]
Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has established the Sherry and John Woo Center for Big Data and Precision Health – a big data analytics center that will support global research to advance precision medicine […]
Benefit fraud, particularly by criminal gangs, costs the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the United Kingdom almost £2.1 billion (~$2.6 billion US) in 2016 – a rise of £200 million in just one […]
Siemens and Australian data analytics company Interlate have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the goal of delivering productivity gains for the mining industry by better leveraging data across the entire mining value chain. […]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has partnered with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to conduct a 30-day test of the use of facial recognition technology to screen international travelers at Los Angeles […]
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) announced plans to use Google Cloud in an initiative that is expected to accelerate the delivery of data-driven business insights to its Institutional customers. “Increasingly, our institutional […]
A coalition of organizations – including the World Bank, the United Nations, and the International Committee of the Red Cross – is partnering with tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in an effort […]
Researchers from the psychology departments at the universities of Lincoln and York, UK, and the University of New South Wales in Australia are investigating combining multiple poor-quality CCTV images into a single, computer-enhanced composite to […]
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) – a Washington, DC-based think tank and advocacy group focused on issues of data privacy – recently published resources to help businesses and policymakers understand and evaluate consumer-targeted facial-recognition […]
Lockheed Martin, the Drone Racing League and NVIDIA have partnered to design a challenge called AlphaPilot – which calls for the creation of artificial intelligence technology that allows autonomous drones to out-race human-piloted drones. “Put […]
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