Centerpiece of the new initiative includes the Art Intelligence Research Program, pairing world-class AI and machine learning engineers with leading artists, such as Laurie Anderson, who will be the first artist-in-residence in 2020 The Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) and the Sia Furler Institute at the University of Adelaide announce new initiatives to gather the best artists and AI scientists in the world to change the future of art through AI. New initiatives include MURMUR, the world’s-first AI Art…

Capturing and maintaining consumers' short attention span is becoming increasingly difficult, especially with the rise of multi-screening. It was recently reported that 72% of people aged 16-24 use social media whilst they watch TV. This demonstrates how ingrained multi-screening behavior has become, particularly for Gen Z consumers. In today’s market where consumer attention is divided across multiple platforms and formats, only the most engaging and relevant advertising will resonate with audiences. Businesses are…

Chad Ruff, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage If you’re looking for a strategy to get ahead when it comes to customer acquisition, machine learning can be your secret weapon. While machine learning does fall under the larger category of artificial intelligence (AI), it’s a bit more specific and can be extremely effective technology to pair with your customer and prospect database. True AI can think for itself like Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek. Machine learning, however, can automate tasks and apply…

New capabilities for Genesys Cloud Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) serve as strategic step to enabling Experience as a Service for any organization Genesys, the global leader in cloud customer experience and contact center solutions, has acquired its long-standing partner, nGUVU, to add gamification to its comprehensive workforce engagement management (WEM) suite. Based in Montreal, Canada, nGUVU is a cloud-based software provider of gamified solutions that use machine learning and behavioral analytics to improve…

Tapping a Database of Over 2 Billion Unique, Fraud-Free Mobile Profiles Friendable, Inc. is pleased to announce its partnership with “LiftOff”, a Palo Alto, CA based company founded in 2012, with the mission of revolutionizing how mobile app marketers build and grow an active, engaged user base. Marketing Technology News: Epubor Boosts Conversion Rate by 20% with 2Checkout’s InLine Cart Friendable plans to deliver a focused approach and strategy that employs a “Four-Phased” approach that has been designed to help…

With Databricks Ingest and New Partner Integrations, Data Teams Can Easily Populate Lakehouses, Which Combine the Best of Data Lakes and Data Warehouses Databricks, the leader in unified data analytics, announced an accelerated path for data teams to unify data management, business intelligence (BI) and machine learning (ML) on one platform. The new Data Ingestion Network of partners and Databricks Ingest bring data teams closer to building the new data management paradigm, lakehouse, which combines the best elements of…

 The Partnership Enables Organizations to Build a Lakehouse by Ingesting Data Across the Enterprise into Delta Lake Syncsort announced it has partnered with Databricks to support cloud initiatives for critical mainframe and IBM i data. Enterprises can now leverage Syncsort Connect products to access, transform and deliver mainframe data to Delta Lake for advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning projects. “Liberate Legacy Data Sources with Syncsort and Databricks.” Organizations rely on…

Hi Vanya, from spending your time in Seattle to joining an NLP and AI technology company - what inspired you to make this journey? Growing up in Seattle, I was exposed to tech at a pretty young age. Most of my friends’ parents worked for Microsoft. I spent a lot of my free time working on little coding projects, and even started my own business developing Video game mods in high school. Movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey captured my imagination, and gave me a sense that AI was going to be an important part of the…

The First End-to-End Messaging Visibility Platform Allows Mobile Operators and Internet Service Providers to Identify, Analyze and Prioritize Messages Syniverse and RealNetworks have announced they have incorporated sophisticated machine learning (ML) features into their integrated offering that gives carriers visibility and control over mobile messaging traffic. By integrating RealNetworks’ Kontxt™ application-to-person (A2P) message categorization capabilities into Syniverse Messaging Clarity, mobile network operators…

Recognition Acknowledges Databricks’ Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision for Third Year in a Row Databricks, the leader in unified data analytics, has been named by Gartner as a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. Databricks’ Unified Data Analytics Platform allows organizations access to all of their big data and traditional data for business intelligence and machine learning on one platform. On its journey to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems,…

Gartner has recognized SAS as a Leader in its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. The report evaluated SAS for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. This is the seventh consecutive year for SAS to be recognized as a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Marketing Technology News: Growing Businesses Turn to DIY Video Content to Scale Faster and Optimize Revenue Growth "Machine learning, and more broadly artificial intelligence, is the new standard for businesses to make profitable…

Dataiku, one of the world's leading Enterprise AI and machine learning platforms, announced the launch of the Dataiku Community, a collaborative resource for Dataiku users and those working to democratize data science. Created as the go-to place for all data professionals, the Dataiku Community centralizes resources and encourages members to engage on broad data science topics as well as to expand their knowledge and skillsets (both within and outside of Dataiku). The Dataiku Community features a knowledge section that…

Customer Engagement Platform Also Announces Updates to AI-Powered Intelligence Suite, New Tools and Three New Partnerships Braze, the comprehensive customer engagement platform, announced new features and product expansions to bolster cross-channel capabilities, increase retention and amplify customer loyalty. These include updates to Braze's automated decision making Intelligence Suite as well the introduction of Braze Predictive Suite, a new lineup of tools which will help brands increase retention using machine…

Angel, an artificial Intelligence project contributed by Tencent, successfully graduated from LF AI on December 19th after evolving from a pure model training platform to a full-stack machine learning platform, an umbrella foundation of the Linux Foundation said in a statement released on Thursday. Angel is the first Chinese open-sourced project to achieve this status, the LF AI Foundation added. "We are very pleased to witness the growth of Angel," said Tencent's data platform General Manager Jiang Jie. "Graduation…

Technology Innovator Leverages Category-Specific Price Elasticity to Deliver Business Impact Since its founding in 1923 by Max Conrad, Conrad Electronic has been a perennial market innovator delivering a huge assortment of electronics and technology to its growing consumer and business customer base. As one of Europe's leading multi-channel retailers of electronics and technology, Conrad's expansive assortment is designed to actively engage both its business customers – including industrial customers, professional…

Defining open standards is essential for deploying and governing machine learning models at scale for enterprise businesses Cloudera, the enterprise data cloud company, asks for industry participation in defining universal open standards for machine learning operations (MLOps) and machine learning model governance. By contributing to these standards, the community can help companies make the most of their machine learning platforms and pave the way for the future of MLOps. "Machine learning models are already part of…

Open-source initiative aims to assist global developers on batch and stream processing Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced that the core codes of Alink, its self-developed algorithm platform, have been made available via open source on Github, the world’s largest developer community. The platform offers a broad range of algorithm libraries that support both batch and stream processing, which is critical for machine learning tasks such as online product recommendation and intelligent…

At re:Invent, TruFactor, debuts 40+ offerings as a Launch Partner for AWS Data Exchange, making consumer intelligence easily accessible to millions of AWS customers TruFactor, an InMobi Group company, announced at AWS re:Invent 2019 that over 40 TruFactor intelligence offerings tailored to specific use cases and industries are now available on AWS Data Exchange, a new service that makes it easy for millions of Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud.…

New Segments Identify Affinity or Intent Using Actionable Insights From Real-World Consumer Behavior to Identify, Reach and Engage Customers Factual, the location data company, announced a significant update to its Audience product, adding Predictive and Loyalty audiences built using machine-learned predictive insights to its roster of targeting solutions for marketers. “Factual’s new scalable Predictive and Loyalty audiences help marketers target their campaigns more efficiently, reaching their customers at the right…

Data Engineers Now Have a Comprehensive Suite of Industry-Leading Products for End-to-End Data Management in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments Leveraging Serverless Compute Capabilities Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management leader, announced the launch of the Informatica Data Engineering solution, which provides the complete suite of tools data engineers need to deliver clean, reliable, trusted, and accessible data for enterprise AI, machine learning, and analytics initiatives in hybrid cloud and…