Week at a Glance (25th Nov - 1st Dec): Top News from Data Science

News Highlights

• Data science announcements at Amazon re:invent 2017
• IOTA, the cryptocurrency that uses Tangle instead of blockchain, announces Data Marketplace for Internet of Things
• Cloudera Altus Analytic DB: Modernizing the cloud-based data warehouses
• What if robots get you a job! Enter Helena, the first artificial intelligence recruiter
• ABBYY’s AI-powered Real-Time recognition SDK helps developers add ‘instant’ text capture functionality to mobile apps
• Meet SAM: World’s first artificial intelligence politician!

In other News

1st Dec.’ 17 – Headlines

• Amazon is putting “Alexa for business”
• Introducing the AIY Vision Kit: Add computer vision to your maker projects
• Health Wizz unveils blockchain platform to give patients control of health data
• H2O.ai secures $40 million to democratize artificial intelligence for the enterprise
• Impetus Technologies to host meetup on anomaly detection techniques using Apache Spark
• Uptake raises $117M at $2.3B valuation for industrial predictive analytics
• CrowdRiff releases ‘smart’ visual content marketing platform

30th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

• AWS IoT Analytics: Amazon announces dedicated analytics service for IoT data
• SageMaker: AWS makes it easier to build and deploy machine learning models
• AWS DeepLens: Amazon unveils deep learning powered wireless video camera for developers
• Amazon Translate: A neural machine translation service more accurate and scalable
• Aurora Serverless: AWS announces a serverless database service where users only pay for the processing when the database is actually doing work
• Mozilla releases open source Speech Recognition Model and voice dataset

29th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

• Bitcoin cryptocurrency smashes through $10,000 record, as experts warn of bubbles
• Bokeh 0.12.11 released
• Cloudera announces beta version of Cloudera Altus Analytic DB
• China’s Baidu, Xiaomi enter pact to create smart connected devices under AI and IoT ecosystem
• Apache Impala upgraded to Top-Level Project
• Adobe demonstrates future Photoshop tool that uses machine learning to select image subjects
• DataScience.com now available on AWS Marketplace as a single-click offering

28th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

• Researchers aim for unbreakable encryption in quantum computers as new breakthrough drastically increases the speed of current QKD transmission
• Nuance AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging: Nuance leverages Nvidia’s deep learning for radiology
• Change Healthcare, Dicom Systems ink strategic partnerships with Google Cloud to apply AI into medical imaging analytics
• Announcing AWS Machine Learning Research Awards to fund machine learning research
• Intuit to use AWS as its standard artificial intelligence platform

27th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

• Nvidia’s AI processor to be used in GE Healthcare’s medical devices globally
• EnvoyAI launches with 35 algorithms contributed by 14 newly-contracted artificial intelligence development partners
• Google may add native dictation support to Chromebooks
• Lunit Unveils “Lunit INSIGHT,” A New Real-time Imaging AI Platform on the Web at RSNA 2017
• Kia Motors America launches AI-powered virtual assistant “Kian” to help customers “Know It All Now” about any Kia Vehicle

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