Tag: Artificial intelligence

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Enrico Busto. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning of buildings accounts alone for nearly 40% of the global energy demand [1].The need for Energy Savings has become increasily foundamental to fight Climate Change. We have been working on a cloud-based RL algorithm that can retrofit existing HVAC controls to obtain substantial results. In the last decade, a new class of controls which relies on Artificial Intelligence have been proposed. In particular, we are going to highlight data-driven controls based on Reinforcement Learning (RL), since they showed from the very beginning promising results as HVAC controls [2]. There are two main ways to ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Andrej Kovačević. For several years, big data (and the analytics it feeds) was a concept that was only being explored by deep-pocketed companies and other large organizations. Now the technology required for it is standardized and less resource-heavy. So, big data has spread to all corners of the global economy. At this point, it’s fair to say that big data is now a must-have foundational business technology of the 21st century.Nowhere is this new reality more evident than it is in the $80 billion-per-year global health and fitness industry. Over the last few years, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. re:Invent 2019 Nonprofit Hackathon for Good finalists At the re:Invent 2019 Nonprofit Hackathon for Good, more than 150 re:Invent attendees put their minds together to develop solutions for real-world challenges from four nonprofits: Best Friends Animal Society, SkyTruth, Urban Institute, and Vibrant Emotional Health. The winning team pitched a solution on how to build personalized safety plans for people calling Vibrant Emotional Health’s Lifeline, a national suicide prevention help line. Winning team members Edward Fox, Hamid Jizan, Joe Hillhouse, Rick Hoxie, and Vinit Patankar built a solution ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  A little history lesson about all the different names by which the field of data science has been called, and why, whatever you call it, it’s all the same thing. A little reminiscence, or for those of you who are only recently data scientists, a little history lesson.  Our profession of finding the signal in the data, be that supervised or unsupervised got underway in the 90s.  In the last 20+ years we’ve been called by a variety of names.  It’s not at all clear that as those ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Renata Melnyk, Sr. Partner Program Manager at AWS By Jennifer Beckett, APN Retail Segment Lead at AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS) has thousands of retailer customers that are continuously searching for trusted technology and consulting solution providers to accelerate their transformation, modernization, and customer engagement roadmaps. Finding the most qualified and experienced partners can be time-consuming for retailers, and may not always lead to the best partners for their cloud adoption journey. To assist retailers with this search, the AWS Partner Network (APN) launched the AWS Retail Competency. This designation helps ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. AWS Immersion Day workshops are day-long, in-person workshop that AWS Solutions Architects created to help customers walk through different areas of Amazon Web Services (AWS).This in-depth approach helps technical experts learn how to best leverage the AWS platform to unlock business potential and meet key objectives. AWS Immersion Day workshops are available in many solution areas, such as database migration, containers, artificial intelligence, edge services, and more. To help AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners provide this same type of experience for their customers, we are excited to announce APN Immersion Days ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. APN Immersion Days are a benefit to APN Advanced and Premier tier Consulting Partners. These APN Partners can leverage AWS branded content (e.g. Presentations, hands-on labs , and other assets) built for various AWS services and solutions to help address key customers questions. We have a number of AWS Immersion Day workshops available for our APN Partners. Topics and services covered include: Database Migration Service, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, EC2 Spot, Elastic MapReduce, Redshift, Containers, Running Microsoft workloads on AWS, Landing Zone, Data Engineering, Security & Compliance, Serverless, IoT, and many more ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. From a new podcast to challenge winners, read on for the government, education, and nonprofit highlights from the annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector Breakfast at re:Invent.Government FINRA CAT powered by AWS: FINRA CAT, LLC, a subsidiary of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), announced it selected AWS as its cloud provider for the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). The CAT will allow regulators to improve securities market surveillance by creating an extensive audit trail of order information for all U.S. equity securities and listed options across ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Finding cures for childhood cancer. Stopping illegal fuel dumping in our oceans. Sharing knowledge and culture. Giving unbanked populations a financial voice. Guiding women facing life-threatening breast cancer diagnoses. Helping veterans access the support they’ve earned. This year’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant Program winners are tackling big challenges using technology.At AWS, we value our nonprofit innovators. We believe that powerful technology combined with the talents and passions of individuals within nonprofit organizations is key to solving some of the world’s toughest challenges. The AWS Imagine ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. The winners of the annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge were announced today at re:Invent 2019. The annual competition recognizes applicants going above and beyond to innovate for and with their constituents, using the cloud to improve lives. Depending on the award category and scope of the project, winners will be awarded up to $20,000 in AWS Promotional Credits, up to $20,000 in financial support, and up to five training vouchers to help progress their projects by training employees on AWS tools ... Read More