As information becomes critical in customer experience and business processes, managing data at scale is becoming increasingly important. The tolerance for exposure to data loss and downtime that blocks access to critical information has become low, while the efforts to get software faster and more resilient have focused on improving the management and simplifying the work of scaling large datasets that span multiple locations.
In this video presentation, we looked at the latest tools that are challenging the traditional approaches to meet the needs of data-intensive applications. We spoke with Wayne Duso, vice president of engineering at Amazon Web Services, Jordan Tigani, chief product officer at SingleStore and Kabir Shahani, chief executive officer at Amperity. The interviews were recorded at the AWS:ReInvent conference late last year. TNS Publisher Alex Williams led the interviews.
Continue reading: https://thenewstack.io/whats-next-managing-data-in-cloud-native-environments/

The world is at a fast pace of transitioning from traditional to digital, high-tech clinical data management methods, like other industries and sectors. Medical professionals and pharmaceutical businesses now adopt modern innovative solutions, from clinical trials, diagnosis, to patient data documentation. But, what are the latest solutions or trends in clinical data management?
In this article, you’ll learn the top trends in clinical data management today to show how they can improve healthcare research and development and patient care services, paving the way for digital transformation.
Cloud-Based Clinical Metadata Repositories
Because of the increasing demand for newer and better drugs, clinical trials need to accelerate. Hence, organizations are trying to find ways to improve their operations to launch more successful trials.
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology facilities continue to improve the elements of designing and developing clinical trials. However, organizations face great challenges in metadata collection, management, and analysis. Installation of multiple desktop applications makes clinical metadata difficult to manage. So, what’s the best solution to this problem?
Cloud-based clinical metadata repositories (CMDR) pave the way to centralized metadata. This technology helps standardize clinical trial design and development. With cloud-based clinical metadata repositories, research facilities can gain the following benefits: 
- Standardization Of Clinical Metadata: Clinical research facilities can ensure standardized data collection in all stages of trials, from planning to analysis. Standardized metadata can be easily accessed and reused as necessary when setting up a new trial to avoid creating new, similar content.
- Regulatory Compliance: Advanced CMDR systems remain up to date with changing regulatory standards. A validation check alerts users to any non-compliance issue when importing data that prompts corrective action.
- Productivity And Cost-Efficiency: Another benefit of using this technology is decreased costs in hiring more people to manage data. Instead of manually tracking changes, researchers can rely on CMDR and focus on the other important aspects of clinical trials.
Electronic Case Report Form
Accurate data is necessary for a successful clinical trial. Whether studying a new medication, device, therapy, or any other latest discovery, it’s best to deploy digitalization. Omit using paper-based data collection to avoid errors when migrating to electronic format. Instead, use eCRF to reduce operational costs, increase clinical trial participation, and access records securely and quickly. Using eCRF can also increase trial efficiency.  
Continue reading: https://www.baltictimes.com/top_4_trends_in_clinical_data_management/

On January 5th, Iris Automation announced a partnership with Doosan Mobility Innovations (DMI) and Drone America in which the three companies committed to a major collaboration. The agreement outlines both the integration of their respective technologies with one another as well as the sharing of operational resources for the testing and evaluation of aircraft platforms and infrastructure to support commercial beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations.
What is the significance of these three particular companies getting together and working in tandem? Simply put, each one has a distinct product or solution that is designed to facilitate longer and more independent autonomous flights. In this case, the whole isn’t necessarily greater than the sum of the parts, but it does showcase what an especially well-defined BVLOS operation can look like.
Iris Automation’s detect and avoid (DAA) technology is the component that guarantees that all crewed and uncrewed platforms will maintain safe separation from fixed objects and from each other while flying unsupervised. DMI has focused on the development of longer-flying unmanned platforms by using hydrogen fuel cells as their power source. Drone America is focused on medium to large-scale aircraft and the autonomy of flight, notably for first responders, critical delivery services, inspections, and infrastructure surveying.
By aligning goals and resources, these three leaders of the industry have established a clear path forward for safer and longer flights in an effort to prove to the regulators like the FAA. This combination showcases that BVLOS, autonomous flights are feasible within the frame of existing technology. The true challenge is more about integration and testing than it is about the technical capability of the hardware or software.
We reached out to Lori DeMatteis, Global Vice President, sales, marketing and customer Success at Iris Automation during her busy schedule at CES, for an exclusive interview about the partnership and their immediate plans to make a difference in the industry.
“We are very excited that the industry is finally working together to bring together these kinds of solutions,” DeMatteis told Commercial UAV News. “We are moving from an individualistic siloed approach to joint partnerships and solutions which add value overall to the entire ecosystem, which is uplifting the entire ecosystem if you will.”
Continue reading: https://www.commercialuavnews.com/regulations/partnerships-define-a-path-toward-bvlos-operations-in-support-of-the-entire-drone-industry

In December 2019, a 60-year-old New York City resident, Erica Tishman, was killed when a chunk of broken façade fell off a midtown Manhattan building and struck her. In late April, city inspectors cited the owner of the building at 729 Seventh Ave. for a Class 1 facade violation, the most severe category, Gothamist reports.
Following the incident, city council members began exploring ways to use drone technology to make building inspections more efficient and safer.
Roughly two years after Tishman’s death, New York City’s Department of Buildings issued a report that found experienced building safety inspectors can use drones to conduct enhanced building facade inspections with greater efficiency. Other cities have been exploring using drones to inspect construction projects, including Tarpon Springs, Fla.
“It is imperative that we continue to embrace the latest technologies and innovations in support of our mission to protect our fellow New Yorkers,” Department of Buildings Commissioner Melanie La Rocca says. “Our report is the product of intensive research by DOB experts, and finds that when combined with traditional hands-on examinations, the effective use of drones could potentially result in more comprehensive building inspections, resulting in reduced inefficiencies and a safer New York City.”
How New York Might Use Drones for Inspections
The report found that drones can be used to collect a wide array of visual data in inspections, especially when equipped with video cameras, lidar, thermal imaging, photogrammetry and location software.
“Drones can also access angles that are more difficult to achieve using other methods of visual inspection, which is particularly helpful for the inspection of larger buildings,” the report states.
However, facade inspections require more than just visual images. Drones could take photographs and provide location information to “easily pinpoint where a defect is located on a building,” the report notes, but physical examinations by qualified professionals will still be needed.
Continue reading: https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2022/01/how-can-drones-be-used-city-building-inspections

U.S. Drone Soccer Leagues Launch today with a kickstarted campaign to fund aviation education in Colorado, New York, and Ohio.
U.S. Drone Soccer may be one of the coolest sports in the world – and gives kids ages 12 and up their first experience in aviation, creating a pathway for aerospace careers. With classroom lessons and after school drone soccer leagues for grades 6-12, drone soccer is the recognized as an international sport by the World Air Sports Federation (FAI).  Drone Soccer will be demonstrated at the World Games held in Birmingham, Alabama in July of 2022.
Continue reading: https://dronelife.com/2022/01/19/this-new-co-ed-esport-shoots-for-big-goals-u-s-drone-soccer-leagues-launched-today-video/

It’s hard to decipher the signal from the noise in today’s complex biztech landscape. At Data Gumbo, we receive a lot of questions regarding interoperability. For the most part, questions about interoperability between smart contracting platforms and their underlying distributed ledgers are a big red herring. Once we step outside of the crypto-obsessed world of Ethereum tokens and NFTs, artificially constrained by the needs of a public ledger running on gas and tokens, interoperability between smart contracting systems used to execute real business-to-business (B2B) use cases look the same as any other integration: REST APIs – short for representational state transfer application programming interfaces.  First, what exactly do we mean by interoperability? In short, interoperability refers to the basic ability of any computerized systems to connect, communicate, exchange and interpret shared information between applications, databases and other systems that drive the modern economy.  Taking this a step further, interoperability for smart contracting platforms means that information is accessible, comprehendable and transactable across environments. There are three different levels of interoperability:

1. Foundational - Enables the exchange of data between systems without the systems being able to interpret data.
2. Structural - Enables the exchange of data between systems in a defined, uniform structure. Information at this level of interoperability can be interpreted but not interacted with or used.
3. Semantic - Enables the exchange of data between systems that allows for information to be both interpreted and used. 
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   As such a fundamental component of the global distributed network of commerce and value, a smart contract platform’s “architecture must satisfy the same fundamental goals of the Internet architecture” including semantic interoperability.  
   Continue reading: https://blog.datagumbo.com/en/gumbonet-blog/gumbonet-blog/lets-talk-interoperability

Draganfly Inc. an award-winning, industry-leading drone solutions and systems developer, is pleased to announce a partnership with Women And Drones, the premier global platform for women who are disrupting, innovating and shaping the future of STEM and aviation.
Women And Drones is the leading membership organization dedicated to driving excellence in the uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and Advance Air Mobility (AAM) industry by advocating for female participation in this dynamic segment of the global economy. From 2018 to 2021, the organization has been named one of the top companies to watch in the UAS industry.
Women And Drones’ educational programs range from kindergarten to career in an effort to balance the gender equation in the industry currently, as well as for the future of flight. The organization offers Drone Flight Services including aerial imagery and drone product beta testing.
Continue reading: https://aithority.com/robots/autonomous-vehicles/drones/draganfly-partners-with-women-and-drones-to-help-drive-excellence-in-the-drone-industry/

Arab-Americans are at the forefront of realizing technology's most significant potential, providing positive changes to America and the Arab World.
However, like many other hyphenated "x-Americans," their capacity to accommodate two distinct worlds can be exhausting, primarily as perceptions sway with every negative news story feeding us a "them" versus a "us" mentality. 
Raising money from investors is a challenging task for a startup in general, but even more so for many minority groups, including non-binary Arab and North African founders.  
Unfortunately, post 9/11, many Arab founders were forced to fight for notoriety outside of the stereotyped Hollywood tropes. However, what you don't hear about in mainstream media, is that Arabs contribute to at least 3.4% of the total patents in the United States while only representing .3% of the total population. 
As Gen Z becomes more and more progressive about race relations and the Middle East, the trend must keep growing in the tech sector. Iraqi-American Deena Shakir, at Lux Capital, recently led the round of the first women's health unicorn in the United States, Maven. 
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/soulaimagourani/2022/01/19/how-arab-women-are-making-waves-in-tech/?sh=798526f24114

Only 34% of the people employed in the largest tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are women.  The good news is women can change that percentage for the better.
Here are 7 tips on how women can effectively pursue a career in tech:
Build your business skills
Make it a point to enhance your business skills. In other words, look for opportunities to grow your expertise in both business and tech.
Be sure to bulk up on the following skills:

• Coding
• Computer science
• Data science
• Math
• Statistics
• System design

Seek mentorship
There’s nothing wrong with asking for help, especially when it comes to pursuing a career in tech. In fact, women need all the support that they can get when pursuing tech. That’s why it’s important to seek mentors who have been in your shoes before. While seeking women mentors are ideal, don’t forget about the men. Chances are, you’ll find a male mentor that sympathizes with women finding a purpose in the male-dominate workforce.
Continue reading: https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/7-tips-women-pursuing-career-tech-henry

Women have only made up a small percentage of the cybersecurity workforce. According to a recent survey, women account for just 20% of the information security field. 
The issue is that there are still very few female role models in cybersecurity, and many women don’t know where to start when it comes to breaking into this male-dominated profession.
Cybersecurity is a critical topic for all nations; however, the worldwide workforce shortage of approximately 4 million people, including 2.1 million across the Asia-Pacific region. 
With the rapid expansion of technology across Southeast Asia, it’s expected that cybercrime rates will also increase. Despite the growing importance of cybersecurity, women continue to be vastly underrepresented in the field. 
Only 30% women entering the industry in Asia-Pacific, according to a 2020 cyber security workforce study by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC).
Continue reading: https://techwireasia.com/2022/01/increasing-women-representation-in-cybersecurity/

Cryptocurrency and blockchain have taken the world by storm, with people making and losing fortunes according to the value of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and countless others, as outlined by Fortune. While cryptocurrency (and NFT projects) may get the lion’s share of media coverage, closely associated is blockchain technology. The two go hand-in-hand, but blockchain has far wider applications and uses for all types of businesses (via Investopedia). In fact, according to Blockdata, 81 of the top 100 companies globally are already using blockchain technology.
What’s more, Research and Markets predicts the blockchain market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 68.4%, reaching some $67.4 billion by 2026.
Despite the growing importance of blockchain technology, many still don’t understand exactly what it is, or why so many companies are investing in it. Even those who may know a little about it may still not understand how its application extends far beyond cryptocurrency.
Continue reading: https://www.slashgear.com/what-exactly-is-blockchain-19707861/

AI adoption is on the rise. According to a recent McKinsey survey, 55% of companies use artificial intelligence in at least one function, and 27% attribute at least 5% of earnings before interest and taxes to AI, much of that in the form of  cost savings.
As AI will dramatically transform nearly every industry it touches, it’s no surprise that vendors and enterprises are looking for opportunities to deploy AI everywhere they can. But not every project can benefit from AI and attempting to apply AI inappropriately can not only cost time and money but also sour employees, customers, and corporate leaders on future AI projects.
The key factors for determining whether a project is suitable for AI are business value, availability of training data, and cultural readiness for change. Here’s a look at how to ensure those criteria are in line for your proposed AI project before your foray into artificial intelligence becomes a sunk cost.
Start with the simplest solution possible
Data scientists in particular gravitate toward an AI-first approach, says Zack Fragoso, data science and AI manager at pizza chain Domino’s, which has more than 18,000 locations in over 90 countries around the world. But you can’t apply AI everywhere.
Continue reading: https://www.cio.com/article/303218/how-to-know-when-ai-is-the-right-solution.html

The adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace was greatly accelerated by the pandemic, and as we inch back toward the office setting, these tools are only expected to grow in value.
Fifty-six percent of companies improved their relationship with AI during 2021, up 45% from 2020, according to a recent survey conducted by consulting firm, McKinsey. Within the world of HR, recruiting and hiring have seen a particular uptick when it comes to embracing AI tools.
“The traditional 9-to-5 culture is gone forever,” says Sunny Saurabh, CEO at AI recruiting platform, Interviewer.AI. “A lot of the workforce is going to go remote in the next three to four years and some of the biggest challenges that we’ll find in remote settings is collaboration and how to bring in productivity. In some worlds it was only thought possible in a face-to-face setup — but now you're seeing a lot of AI tools come in and take over that space.”
The rise of AI will eliminate 85 million jobs, according to the World Economic Forum. But in turn, it will also create 97 million new ones by 2025. Not only is the use of more tech imperative to the upskilling and reskilling of the existing workforce, saysSaurabh, but it can bring ease to finding job applicants with hyper-specific skill sets.
“I don't think [the acceleration of AI] is going to go away,” Saurabh says. “Not when people have realized how much more they can do so much with their time [thanks to automation].”
Continue reading: https://www.benefitnews.com/list/artificial-intelligence-in-the-workplace-2022

Over the past two years, stay-at-home orders and lockdowns have tested the strength of many American merchants. During the height of the pandemic, 23% of small- and medium-sized businesses closed their doors to customers.
While vaccines have brought hope to reopening plans, the post-pandemic landscape comes with a new set of challenges.
Right now, more workers than ever are willing to walk away from their jobs or switch employment, causing widespread labor shortages throughout the supply chain. For small businesses that rely on their employees to open their doors, this is especially crippling during a busy holiday season. 
Still, there are innovative opportunities for small businesses to succeed using artificial intelligence (AI), which is more accessible than ever before. In my experience as a retail SaaS founder, I’ve seen numerous ways retailers can leverage technology to improve their operations. 
Streamlined Payments 
With fewer employees, retailers have to make sacrifices when it comes to customer experiences. Rather than being afforded more face time with each customer, available team members are often stretched thin organizing inventory, processing payments and keeping operations running. 
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/01/19/how-artificial-intelligence-services-can-help-small-businesses/?sh=583288227393

The scope of traditional IP-based networks is expanding to include HVAC, lighting, surveillance and many other systems within buildings and other structures. This transformation is opening a lot of doors for MSPs and other tech companies to do more with their customers.
In this episode of From Promise to Profit, Khali Henderson, senior partner at BuzzTheory and vice chair of the CompTIA Emerging Technology Community, discusses the benefits and strategies for implementing internet-of-things (IoT) solutions with Benson Chan, senior partner at Strategy of Things and a member of CompTIA’s IoT Advisory Council.

Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly becoming an important communications tool between computers and humans. A company’s ability to use conversational AI in chatbots and other digital assistance solutions can have a significant impact on customer satisfaction and other metrics. In this episode of From Promise to Profit, Greg Plum, senior vice president of strategic alliances at Markee and chair of the CompTIA Emerging Technology Community, discusses the benefits and challenges of developing conversational AI solutions with Mady Mantha, senior evangelist, conversational AI and NLU, at Rasa and member of CompTIA’s AI Advisory Council.

Today’s Woman in Tech: Sveta Smirnova, Principal Support Engineering Coordinator, Percona
Sveta Smirnova is a MySQL Support Engineer with over 10 years of experience. She currently works in Percona. Her main professional interests are problem-solving, working with tricky issues, bugs, finding patterns that can solve typical issues quicker, teaching others how to deal with MySQL issues, bugs, and gotchas effectively. She is the author of the book “MySQL Troubleshooting” and JSON UDF functions for MySQL. Sveta has spoken at many events, including Fosdem, Percona Live, Oracle Open World.
When did you become interested in technology? What first got you interested in tech?
I believe around 1990 when I was in school. We were one of the first USSR generations who studied computer science in school. I wrote my first program and was amazed that I can do almost anything with this new toy.
How did you end up in your career path? What obstacles did you have to overcome?
After school, I tried to continue learning computer science at university. But I could not afford to buy my own computer and used only workstations provided by the university on a schedule. It was very weird: I was able to write some programs but did not know how to turn the computer on or off. So I quit. A few years later, my husband and I found that our business would not grow if we were not present on the Internet. At that time, asking someone to build a website for you was very expensive, so we decided to remember my past experience and do it on our own. That led to my own career working in the IT sector.
Continue reading: https://jaxenter.com/women-in-tech-smirnova-176420.html

CIOs are charged with sorting the innovation wheat from the chaff -- and with so many systems and services to consider, some tech chiefs feel cryptocurrencies are unlikely to be a key element of their digital transformation strategies any time soon.
Take the example of one IT leader who I spoke with recently: "We're pushing the boundaries in other areas, such as artificial intelligence, but Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are not on our radar at the moment." 
While the use of some emerging technologies -- such as using the cloud to help people collaborate or using big data to run analytics -- can often be related to a clear business case, the most obvious use of cryptocurrencies -- paying for goods and services -- still isn't as widespread as many observers might have anticipated when Bitcoin launched in 2009.
Estimates suggest about 15,000 businesses worldwide accept Bitcoin, with around 2,300 of those businesses operating in the US. Those figures sound impressive, but it's also worth bearing in mind that many blue-chip firms still don't accept cryptocurrencies as payment.
For every Microsoft, which allows users to pay for services using Bitcoin, and leisure, travel and food companies -- such as Starbucks, Pavilion Hotels & Resorts, and airBaltic -- that are pushing cryptocurrency trials in a range of areas, there's a host of big-name brands that are proving slower to take the plunge.
Continue reading: https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-should-we-care-about-cryptocurrency-the-business-case-for-investigating-further/

Crypto investors may be hoping their investments go to the moon but more than half of the world’s largest crypto companies are U.S. based.
Some industry participants warn, however, that too-harsh regulatory scrutiny will spur some companies to abandon the U.S. for regulatorily greener pastures.
A total of 28 of the top 50 crypto companies, based on valuations, are domiciled in the U.S., according to a recent report by research firm Crypto Head.
The most-valued crypto and crypto-adjacent companies in the world include exchange and financial platforms Coinbase COIN, -0.78% and Robinhood HOOD, -1.67%.
Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange, the largest in the U.S., while Robinhood is a traditional brokerage that allows users to buy and sell crypto assets. Robinhood has a market valuation of about $12.4 billion and Coinbase’s is nearly $48 billion, as of Tuesday’s close, FactSet data show.
As the crypto industry has grown, it has drawn more attention from U.S. regulators. In November, President Joe Biden signed into law a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which contains a provision that would require brokers of digital assets to record and report transactions to the Internal Revenue Service starting next year. 
Continue reading: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-than-50-of-top-crypto-companies-call-u-s-home-despite-intensifying-regulation-study-shows-11642546177

We are on the precipice of a new form of finance that will use a range of technologies to change the way we use and manage one of our most fundamental tools: money.
Gone are the days of taking out cash from an ATM, applying for a mortgage by visiting a bank branch, or shopping in a department store. Now, for many, conducting financial transactions of any kind is a purely online experience, escalated over the past two years by the COVID-19 pandemic. Increasingly, the future of money exists in the Ether, via phones and laptops.
But there's a bigger future for money, the early stages of which are now taking place. Cryptocurrencies and faster, more powerful financial technologies are transforming our concept of money and challenging the financial institutions that currently manage it. The year 2021 was a transformative year for finance, and 2022 is shaping up to bring more change. ZDNet looks at two categories that are diving into the future of money: blockchain and fintech innovations.
BLOCKCHAIN AND DIGITAL CURRENCY
Cryptocurrency is a digital token that's secured and transferred cryptographically using blockchain technology. Bitcoin -- the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, launched in 2009 -- is the biggest and most popular, with a market cap valued at $786 billion as of early January 2022. Plenty of people have heard about Bitcoin, but few know how it truly functions. 
Continue reading: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-future-of-money-where-blockchain-and-cryptocurrency-will-take-us-next/

The nuclear industry is one of the most specialized and highly regulated sectors in the world, but that does not mean it is immune to security concerns. The nuclear sector has to deal with counterfeit, fraudulent and suspect items (CFSI). But how can it solve the problem with a supply chain that is still predominately paper-based? 
The supply chain powering the nuclear industry has to become a trusted network — an ecosystem of supply backed by an immutable record of transactions. This is where technology steps in. In contrast to paper records, which fail to provide the level of traceability and security required, blockchain is hard-wired and it has the efficiency, transparency, security and risk mitigation capabilities existing nuclear supply chains lack. 
There’s more to blockchain than Bitcoin
When people think of blockchain their minds immediately spring to cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or the most recent ‘big hack’. There is much more to it than that. A blockchain or ‘distributed ledger technology’ (DLT) system collects information and groups it in ‘blocks’ that are closed, uneditable and linked to a previously-closed block (hence ‘blockchain’). The ‘chain’ of linked blocks is inherently irreversible. 
Continue reading: https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featuresecuring-the-nuclear-supply-chain-through-blockchain-9408722/

In a busy hospital, a radiologist is using an artificial intelligence system to help her diagnose medical conditions based on patients’ X-ray images. Using the AI system can help her make faster diagnoses, but how does she know when to trust the AI’s predictions?
She doesn’t. Instead, she may rely on her expertise, a confidence level provided by the system itself, or an explanation of how the algorithm made its prediction — which may look convincing but still be wrong — to make an estimation.
To help people better understand when to trust an AI “teammate,” MIT researchers created an onboarding technique that guides humans to develop a more accurate understanding of those situations in which a machine makes correct predictions and those in which it makes incorrect predictions.
By showing people how the AI complements their abilities, the training technique could help humans make better decisions or come to conclusions faster when working with AI agents.
Continue reading: https://news.mit.edu/2022/ai-predictions-human-trust-0119

Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Frankfurt School have developed an artificial neural network that can solve challenging control problems. The self-learning system can be used for the optimization of supply chains and production processes as well as for smart grids or traffic control systems.
Power cuts, financial network failures and supply chain disruptions are just some of the many of problems typically encountered in complex systems that are very difficult or even impossible to control using existing methods. Control systems based on artificial intelligence (AI) can help to optimize complex processes—and can also be used to develop new business models.
Together with Professor Lucas Böttcher from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, ETH researchers Nino Antulov-Fantulin and Thomas Asikis—both from the Chair of Computational Social Science—have developed a versatile AI-based control system called AI Pontryagin which is designed to steer complex systems and networks towards desired target states. Using a combination of numerical and analytical methods, the researchers demonstrate how AI Pontryagin automatically learns to control systems in near-optimal ways even when the AI has not previously been informed of the ideal solution.
Continue reading: https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-complex-artificial-intelligence.html

Once associated with big New York City offices, patriarchal workplace culture and multi-million dollar budgets, the advertising industry has evolved considerably in the past century. Now diversified and modernized, remnants of the mid-century Madison Avenue advertising ecosystem are few and far between. 
But what’s caused this shift? Industry leaders will be quick to tell you there’s at least one tool that’s been especially vital to this evolution: artificial intelligence (AI). By mixing fundamental marketing concepts from previous generations with state-of-the-art AI technology, today’s ad agencies and brands can harness machine learning to stay relevant. 
From my experiences partnering with the companies powering change in the advertising and marketing industries, I’ve learned a lot about what’s shaping the future of brands' campaigns. Let’s take a look at machine learning’s role in this shift.
Personalization + Targeting  
Historically, advertising executives relied on generalized demographic information from surveys and censuses to determine what ads would be most successful and where they should be placed. With improved technology, however, advertising teams have unlocked new levels of consumer insight that can target relevant ads directly to interested audiences. 
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/01/18/how-machine-learning-is-shaping-the-future-of-advertising/?sh=214438eb1361

I could not be more excited, y’all! Thanks to Amazon announcing its plans to build out its Sidewalk network with professionally installed equipment that can deliver signals for up to five miles, and more partnerships from LoRaWAN network company Senet, we are set to have two competing nationwide Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) for the IoT.
I had thought this showdown was going to be the biggest story of 2021 (Matter was my other big story for 2021, so I’m 0 for 2 here). Instead, we’ll see coverage expand and devices that use each network launch in 2022. So if you’re a developer, which network should you choose?
First, let’s tackle some basic information. LPWANs provide coverage for connected devices that don’t need to send a lot of data. These networks need to be relatively inexpensive because no one wants to put an expensive radio or pay exorbitant data costs to send data from a smoke detector or security sensor. Ideally, they can provide coverage for fixed or mobile assets, and they need to conserve power because many of the devices that use the network will run on batteries.
With these capabilities, the right LPWAN could open up an entirely new category of connected devices, from dog collars that track your pet without requiring a subscription to remote sensors for oil pipelines. Even in the home or factory, having a LoRaWAN or Sidewalk network could help when the power or internet goes out by keeping critical devices online. The cellular world has already recognized the value of LPWANs, which is why it’s pushing the NB-IoT standard that’s in use today. But NB-IoT is still expensive compared with LoRaWAN and Amazon’s proposed network, which is why there is such an opportunity for LPWANs.
Continue reading: https://staceyoniot.com/are-you-ready-for-an-iot-network-showdown/