Category: Artificial Intelligence

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. We are pleased to announce that BindPlane Logs for Stackdriver is now out of Beta and is generally available to all Google Stackdriver customers. Stackdriver is Google Cloud’s monitoring and logging service, that allows you to easily see how your systems are performing across platforms and providers with metric and log data that is provided by BindPlane. This new integration that beta released for customers in October pulls hybrid cloud sources and on-premises workloads into Stackdriver Logging, which allows users to gain critical insights into their environments to get ahead of potential problems.  Together, ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_admin. Stackdriver log integration expands functionality across on-prem and multi-cloud Kubernetes, databases and applications with 50+ log sources GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. – Dec 3, 2019 – IT monitoring integration innovator Blue Medora today announced general availability and open access of 50+ log source integrations through its BindPlane log streaming platform, for all Google’s Stackdriver customers. This follows the October beta release and announcement from Google Cloud bringing BindPlane’s log services to market at no additional licensing cost to Stackdriver customers. Stackdriver and BindPlane together bring an in-depth hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud and on-premises view into a single dashboard, ... Read More

Feed: Apple Machine Learning Journal. Author: . December 2019 December Two Thousand Nineteen Apple is attending the 33rd Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) this December. The conference, of which Apple is a Diamond Sponsor, will take place in Vancouver, Canada from December 8th to 14th. Apple product teams are engaged in state of the art research in machine hearing, speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, text-to-speech, and artificial intelligence, improving the lives of millions of customers every day. If you’re interested in opportunities to make an impact on Apple products through machine learning research and ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Anand Joshi. Computer vision has continued to evolve in recent years, and in many cases, the technology has surpassed the accuracy of human vision. It has enabled many applications that were considered science fiction just a short time ago. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been instrumental in getting computer vision to the level of accuracy that the market demands. Meanwhile, a new application for computer vision called video analytics has emerged. Video analytics basically extracts data from incoming video and generates results that are meaningful to humans. Over the years, many businesses have ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: sherrilhanson. Significant advances in combining natural language processing (NLP) with other forms of artificial intelligence (AI), primarily machine learning and deep learning, are making enterprise virtual digital assistants (VDAs) more intelligent and useful. Over the next 3 to 5 years, natural language AI will continue to improve and sentiment and emotion recognition AI will evolve. According to a new report from Tractica, these advancements and other market factors have expanded the use cases for enterprise AI-driven VDAs beyond customer service & marketing into other applications which will generate significant direct software revenue.VDAs will become an ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Glenn Sanders. Much has been written about collaborative robot (cobot) arms as the next big thing for robotics, manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics. Cobots are touted as “the” solution for smart factories and e-commerce fulfillment. However, an isolated machine doesn’t really make a factory smart. This is where software platforms come in, as they tie machine data and production data with the overall smart factory processes. This becomes even more critical when a large number of cobots are installed and operators need to monitor and manage production in multiple locations. Let’s look at how three of ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Glenn Sanders. Pneumatic grippers have been around for decades to pick & place, hold, and manipulate parts small and large. Most of these grippers have stiff metal jaws that operate repeatedly and with high precision. This is useful for rigid objects that are all the same shape. However, a solution was needed for grippers that can easily grasp delicate or soft materials or objects that vary in contour, size, or orientation. This is where a new generation of pneumatic grippers with soft jaws, fingers, and bellows comes in. Let’s look at a few examples below ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Mark Beccue. This is the first installment of a series on AI ethics. As we near the end of 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to steadily permeate our world. While promoters wax on about how AI is helping to track and save snow leopards, accurately predict high risk patients for atrial fibrillation (A-fib), and seamlessly solve customer service issues, there is concern about how the use of AI technology can be controlled. In Tractica’s view, the primary ethical issues for AI fall into four categories: Privacy: Managing the use and ownership of personal data ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Keith Kirkpatrick. One of the most challenging aspects of managing any municipality or community is managing the waste generated by consumers, businesses, and the public sector. This waste accounts for 230 million tons of trash each year, according to the Annenberg Foundation. While specific efforts to reduce the use of packaging material may ultimately reduce the amount of garbage produced over time, all communities have produced and will continue to produce waste. This is defined as a combination of materials that can be recycled, materials that are destined for landfills, and materials that must be ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: sherrilhanson. As the implementation of smart factories surges forward, more companies are becoming aware of the growing importance of and uses for collaborative robots (known as cobots), according to a new report from Tractica. Still, a gap exists in understanding what these robots are as well as the implications for businesses.Large company adoption of cobots is already occurring and benefits such as lower costs, increased safety, flexibility, and personnel efficiencies are the key driving factors for cobot demand in small and medium enterprises as well. More startups are entering the industry with new user-friendly cobot ... Read More