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Toward ‘Biologically Plausible’ AI

In the latest attempt at understanding the mechanism(s) by which machines learn, and AI researcher and a neuroscientist probed for similarities in the computational properties between deep neural networks and human brain Read more…

Accelerating Neural Network Design

The design of a neural network architecture remains a daunting problem, requiring human expertise and lots of computing resources. The soaring computational requirements of neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms use Read more…

ML Enlisted to Slow the Spread of Fake News

As should be obvious by now, traditional fact-checking methods have failed to stop “fake news” from spreading like wildfire via social media circuits. While platforms like Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) are developing new Read more…

Data Unifier Tamr Adds More VC Funding

Tamr Inc., the enterprise data integration specialist, added another $10 million in equity funding to its recent $18 million round announced in July. While the five-year-old company reportedly expected its July fundin Read more…

How to Survive Tech’s Chaotic Transformation

Are you nervous about the pace of technological change? If you're running a profitable business, and would like to keep it that way, you should be worried about being out-innovated by a nimbler startup leveraging the lat Read more…

Sparse Fourier Transform Gives Stream Processing a Lifeline from the Coming Data Deluge

When James Cooley and John Tukey introduced the Fast Fourier transform in 1965, it revolutionized signal processing and set us on course to an array of technological breakthroughs. But today's overwhelming data sets requ Read more…

New Approach Seeks to Automate Parallel Programming

Artificial intelligence researchers are leveraging an emerging divide-and-conquer computing approach called "dynamic programming" to greatly accelerate the process of solving problems ranging from genomic analysis to cyb Read more…

Data Engineers in Hot Demand

The big data community has been dealing with the data scientist shortage ever since big data became a thing. Now we're learning that there's possibly an even bigger shortage of another type of data professional: the data Read more…

MIT Programmers Attack Big Data Memory Gap

Among the computing challenges presented by big data is the scattering of unstructured items across huge datasets. Pulling together that data from arbitrary locations in main memory is therefore emerging as a major perfo Read more…

MIT Uses Video to Train Machine Vision System

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory reported this week they have developed a deep learning algorithm that could help machines using predictive vision anticipate human interactions Read more…

New Platform Visualizes Open U.S. Data

Federal agencies are sitting on tons of data, particularly in areas like healthcare, employment, weather and education. A new initiative called Data USA seeks to unleash this trove via a free and open platform that colle Read more…

Machine Learning Tool Seeks to Automate Data Science

MIT researchers will report details this week on a "data science machine" billed as being able to automatically derive predictive models from raw data using a "Deep Feature Synthesis" algorithm. The algorithm is said Read more…

CSAIL Tackles Big Data in Healthcare

MIT launched a big data initiative last year at their Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) called bigdata@CSAIL. Since healthcare does provide challenging and potentially lucrative use cases, the big data research at CSAIL encompasses topics like note text analytics and infection tracking. Read more…

The Week in Big Data Research

We span the globe for this week's big data research and development stories. From modeling in Poland and Montreal to analyzing e-literature in Norway and hashing in Japan, this week has a distinct international flair. Also included this week are studies of big data compression out of MIT and private data center access from Microsoft. Read more…

CSAIL Rides Big Data Visualization Wave

Visualization is an important aspect of big data analytics, as it allows humans to make better assessments than they would by just looking at numbers. However, it can take an especially long time to produce a graph or chart if the dataset is in the terabyte range... Read more…

Intel Invests in Big Data with Research Center

This week Intel announced a new center that will focus on critical roadblocks in big data development with an eye on the unique problems of data-intensive computing in the enterprise. The center, which will be housed at MIT's CSAIL will look to the.... Read more…

Analytics Power Solar Energy Boost

While solar energy pioneers are still seeking ways to tweak the price performance issue, others are focusing on less obvious potential solutions. One such group of solar cell researchers at MIT is addressing the problem of current solar technolo.... Read more…

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