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COVID-19
IoT Deployments Appear Immune to Pandemic
Internet of Things connections driven by early industrial deployments and pandemic-driven telemedicine applications are projected to reach 83 billion by 2024, a 130 percent growth rate, as IoT platform ...Full Article
COVID Cabin Fever: Travel Uptick Detected as Curve Flattens
An analysis of smartphone location data since mid-March reveals an outbreak of what’s been described as COVID-induced “quarantine fatigue.” University of Maryland researchers studying how social distancing and shelter-in-place ...Full Article
Taiwan Is Open for Business: A COVID-19 Tech Template
Taiwan, tech-savvy and pandemic-prepared, has emerged as the gold standard for containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. Using hard lessons learned from previous epidemics, frequent earthquakes and other ...Full Article
COVID-19 Update: Apple Frees Mobility Data, MIT Predictive ML, IBM Data Challenge, Rolls-Royce & More
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, AI and big data have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here's a ...Full Article
What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: Groceries, Smartphones, Competitions & More
Artificial intelligence, big data and high performance computing are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporations and governments are devoting computing resources ...Full Article
Tom Siebel’s Unified AI-Big Data Front Against COVID-19
If AI is to help turn back the COVID-19 tide in a timeframe that saves lives and livelihoods, data scientists will need to build machine learning models fast and ...Full Article
Predictive AI Spots COVID-19 Patients with Life Threatening ‘Wet Lung’
As the rise in COVID-19 cases threatens to overwhelm healthcare facilities in areas hard hit by the coronavirus (including New York City, where the USNS Comfort, pictured below, has ...Full Article
Shift to AI Tools Doesn’t Guarantee Secure IT
AI and machine learning tools enlisted to bolster the security of enterprise infrastructure are ubiquitous. Still, a vendor survey reveals a persistent gap between deployment and working knowledge about ...Full Article
Cash Prizes for COVID-19 AI Contest Testing Data Scientists’ NLP Smarts
Ten thousand dollars in prize money is available to data scientists with natural language processing expertise competing in a contest designed to help rid the world of coronavirus. Kaggle, ...Full Article
Digital Twins of Cities Simulate Coronavirus Public Policy Impacts
President Trump’s stated desire that the country be “opened up” from social distancing by Easter (April 12) is a hotly debated coronavirus issue in political, media and healthcare circles. ...Full Article
