Week at a Glance (9th Dec – 15th Dec 2017): Top News from Data Science

The trend of making ML/AI development more accessible as well as making ML/AI products more competitive remain on top of all tech companies from Google, Amazon, Microsoft to Kubernetes to newcomers like Landing.ai.

NIPS Special Coverage - Part 2

• A deep dive into Deep Bayesian and Bayesian Deep Learning with Yee Whye Teh
• How machine learning for genomics is bridging the gap between research and clinical trial success by Brendan Frey
• 6 Key Challenges in Deep Learning for Robotics by Pieter Abbeel

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News Highlights

• • NASA’s Kepler discovers a new exoplanet using Google’s Machine Learning
  • Q# 101: Getting to know the basics of Microsoft’s new quantum computing language
  • Generative Adversarial Networks: Google open sources TensorFlow-GAN (TFGAN)
  • “The future is quantum” — Are you excited to write your first quantum computing code using Microsoft’s Q#?
  • Is space the final frontier for AI? NASA to reveal Kepler’s latest AI backed discovery
  • AlphaZero: The genesis of machine intuition
  • “The Blockchain to Fix All Blockchains” – Overledger, the meta blockchain, will connect all existing blockchains

In other News

15th Dec.’ 17 – Headlines

• Andrew Ng starts “Landing.ai” to bring AI into manufacturing, Foxconn joins in
  BlockSci version 0.3 announced with big performance gains, SegWit support, and numerous bugfixes
• Announcing Apache Hadoop v3.0.0
• Announcing free trials for IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact version 1.1
• Industrial Internet Consortium and Plattform Industrie 4.0 collaborate to facilitate interoperability of Industrial Internet systems
• Microsoft introduces “Insights” in Excel, “Acronyms” on Word, “Time to leave” on Outlook, Microsoft Whiteboard Preview, and “Text in image search” features into Office 365 suite
• Microsoft’s “AI Factory” initiative may boost the emergence of artificial intelligence market in France
• ARM releases pre-trained TensorFlow models and code for their speech keyword recognition code
• China develops three-year action plan to accelerate the industrial development of artificial intelligence
  

14th Dec.’ 17 – Headlines

• Microsoft makes Azure Bot Service and LUIS generally available for developers to build better conversational AI tools
• Microsoft announces new AI-powered search features for Bing with improved image search and object recognition, machine reading, and a more conversational auto-complete function
• Denso, Toyota conducting a trial to see if quantum computers can be used to analyze IoT data with commercial applications
  Introducing Model Server for Apache MXNet (MMS)
• IEEE releases version 2 of Ethically Aligned Design for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (A/IS), invites industry inputs

13th Dec.’17 – Headlines

• IBM releases 120 code patterns for building AI, blockchain, IoT and chatbots
  NVIDIA announces release of CUDA Toolkit version 9.1
• Accelerite launches ShareInsights 2.0, an end-to-end, self-service approach for big data analysis
• Google reduces prices of its cloud machine learning offerings
• Seattle plans for new machine learning apps and algorithms seeking inspiration from a Facebook Hackathon

12th Dec.’ 17 – Headlines

• Bitcoin price steadies, albeit a little, as first futures contracts begin trading on Cboe exchange
• Introducing Kubeflow to bring composable, easier to use stacks with more control and portability for Kubernetes deployments for all ML, not just TensorFlow.
• Lexalytics launches new pipeline for building machine learning-based, artificial intelligence applications for natural language processing

11th Dec.’ 17 – Headlines

• Practix using IoT tracking device in its Gyms for real-time data analytics
• Numba 0.36.1 announced with LLVM 5, the stencil decorator, and built with Anaconda Distribution 5 compilers
• Apple open sources ‘Turi Create’ machine learning framework on Github

Gensim 3.2.0 released: new Poincare embeddings, speed up of FastText, pre-trained models for download, Linux/Windows/MacOS wheels and performance improvements