Archives for November, 2018 - Page 12


In 1954, with the success of the Georgetown experiment in which the scientists used a machine to translate random sentences from Russian to English, the field of computational linguistics took giant strides towards building an intelligent machine capable of recognising and translating speech. These models were even used in translations during the Nuremberg trials. Nonetheless,…
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Why is executive leadership crucial for the success of analytics initiative? The last few years have seen a spate of new roles at the C-suite level at large and mid-level organisations. The reason for leadership expansion is to handle massive disruption at enterprise scale, and steer the company and align around a common purpose. C-level…
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week gave a keynote address at the Singapore FinTech Festival. He emphasised the importance of fintech in the global economy and said that it should be a movement that can improve the lives of the world’s most marginalised people. “There is an explosion of fintech innovation and enterprise in India. It has…
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A study by Cisco and International Data Corporation (IDC) says that India is more likely to add 1.4 million new job in the IT sector by the year 2027. This addition of new jobs primarily consists of emerging technologies like Cybersecurity, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data, and accounts for 46% growth in jobs…
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Pipelines at GOOGLE Data center A typical warm day on South pole is 20 degrees below zero and the irony is that the data centers run by ICE CUBE Neutrino Observatory can still get overheated. A normal day at any data center involves troubleshooting, racking and stacking and, with such enormous data in-flows, that the…
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Translating a language is a tedious job which involves listening, speaking and a thorough command over the language. An assignment which needs a high degree of skills for humans to have might be a cakewalk for modern computer technologies such as machine learning or artificial intelligence to acquire. Baidu, in a recent development,…
The post Say Hello To STACL, Baidu’s New Innovation For Improving Simultaneous Translation appeared first on Analytics India Magazine.


Corruption in India is deep-rooted and enhanced technology and innovative ideas are needed to weed out the menace. In such times, when issues like black money and money laundering are rampant, Sierra Leone has shown innovative ways India can approach this problem. The country, which has seen trade in illicit gems or “blood diamonds” for…
The post What India Can Learn From An Underdeveloped African Nation About Leveraging AI appeared first on Analytics India Magazine.


Data scientist job roles are hugely in demand and are turning out to be a lucrative career option. However, candidates need to be adept in a wide array of skills from programming knowledge to be good in communication, and more. While the industry has varying metrics on what being a good data scientist is, here…
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Across the globe, scientific reputations are being damaged with news about inexperienced researchers coming under pressure to publish research papers. Research fraud is being committed by fabricating or falsifying data and reporting incorrect findings. This negative trend is damaging the scientific integrity of researchers. A recent Finnish study indicated that between 2010 and 2014, the…
The post How AI Is Tackling Fake Academic Research That Is Plaguing Scientific Community appeared first on Analytics India Magazine.


Automation Anywhere, a Robotic Process Automation startup, announced that they have raised $300 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund. The funding is subject to regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions and is an expansion to the company’s Series A round announced in July, bringing the financing to over $500 million. RPA enables…
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