The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest and longest established professional society of individuals involved in all aspects of computing. Its Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) promotes sound public policy and public understanding of a broad range of issues at the intersection of technology and policy. Europe TPC is pleased to submit the following comments

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest and longest established professional society of individuals involved in all aspects of computing. Its Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) promotes sound public policy and public understanding of a broad range of issues at the intersection of technology and policy. Europe TPC is pleased to submit the following comments

How University College Dublin uses SAS Viya and AI to drive better COVID manageability Martin Banks Tue, 12/01/2020 - 02:28 Summary: Proactive, planned management through AI is helping to identify and predict the severity of a number of diseases, including COVID-19.

Data science company Iguazio Systems Ltd. hit a new milestone today, announcing that its platform has been certified to run on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s hybrid cloud infrastructure offering, AWS Outposts. Iguazio sells a “serverless” data platform-as-a-service product that creates real-time intelligence for applications that run at the network edge or on public clouds and [] The post Iguazios dat

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI–Iguazio, the Data Science Platform built for production and real-time machine learning (ML) applications, today announced that it has achieved the AWS Outposts Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This is a notable development for AWS and Iguazio customers who can utilize Amazon SageMaker to develop artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot-button topic in business IT for the last several years. Advancements in fields like deep learning and neural networks have made it easier than ever to commercialise AI without needing three years and a team of MIT lab scientists to train a machine learning model, and analysts have been busily predicting the dawn of a new AI-enabled age. We’ve extensively

The adoption of cloud computing technology has made data a business-critical asset. It’s also broken down the traditional silos within companies, both technologically and culturally. But, ironically, the shift to software as a service has inadvertently built new silos, locking data within applications, data centers and cloud regions. “It’s incredibly hard for data science teams [] The post Snowfla

What has digital government in the UK learned during the COVID-19 crisis? Derek du Preez Thu, 11/19/2020 - 04:32 Summary: A new report released today by think tank Institute for Government does a good job of highlighting the government’s digital wins and failures in response to COVID-19. The response from governments around

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ascent, a UK software strategy and development firm, has acquired award-winning* Mango Solutions, one of the UK’s largest data science consulting firms, as it vies for a bigger slice of the fast-growing market for data science, advanced analytics, data engineering, and IoT (Internet of Things) solutions. Although financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, the acquisit

An international team of security researchers, including experts from the University of Birmingham, have discovered new vulnerabilities in Intel processors that make it possible to access sensitive data using power side-channel attacks. This category of attacks, dubbed PLATYPUS, exploits fluctuations in a device’s power consumption to extract sensitive data such as cryptographic keys. These attack

As 5G gains traction, CSPs will look to unearth its potential benefits. However, what 5G will also bring in is a compound effect of the challenges that CSPs face already.{loadads} The Three Challenges CSPs face The first of these challenges pertains to the increasing CAPEX intensity which is plaguing the telecom industry, which currently stands at 16%, the highest among any other sector in the wor