Under the Decision Tree (#15)

Welcome back for another edition of Under the Decision Tree. Our weekly selection of machine learning articles, podcasts, conferences, and blogs.

News/Articles

• Microsoft’s R tools bring data science to the masses
• Move Over, Coders—Physicists Will Soon Rule Silicon Valley
• Microsoft buys Canadian AI startup Maluuba, dives in to develop improved connected assistant for all
• Fraugster, a startup that uses AI to detect payment fraud, raises $5M
• Top 6 CXO Trends Companies Should Know In 2017
• 9 SEO Predictions That Will Blow Your Mind
• High-Tech Bridge and PwC Singapore Announce a Strategic Partnership in Cybersecurity
• Teaching computers to recognize sick guts—machine learning and the microbiome
• OneSoft Solutions Inc. Announces Major Milestone with the Commercial Release of New Software Based on Machine Learning
• Microsoft Acquires Canadian AI Research Firm; Yoshua Bengio Joins as Advisor
• MIT’s New AI System: How It Learns By Surfing The Internet
• Putting the “intelligent” machine in its place
• New Relic Previews Artificial Intelligence Technology: Project Seymour
• How businesses can learn from the first wave of AI
• A Few Technology Trends, Highlight’s of 2017
• Underwater Sensors and Microsoft’s Machine Learning Used to Create the “Internet of Oysters”
• Is Paranoid the New Normal Security?
• 2017: the year of real applications
• Fixed-wing drone learns to land like a bird
• 4 ways man and machine are teaming up to fight cyberthreats
• The demand for AI is helping Nvidia and AMD leapfrog Intel
• Machine Learning – An idea whose time has come
• Machine learning: Behind the hype
• McKinsey’s 2016 Analytics Study Defines The Future Of Machine Learning
• The five stages of machine learning implementation
• Colonial First State and UTS use machine learning to predict investors
• Why machine learning will decide which IoT ‘things’ survive
• Innovators wanted: Machine learning, IoT jobs on the rise

Podcasts

• 2017-01-13 - Data Skeptic - MINI - Dropout
• 2017-01-12 - O’Reilly Data Show - How big compute is powering the deep learning rocket ship
• 2017-01-10 - Partially Derivative - Claudia Perlich: Ad Tech, Watson and Ethics
• 2017-01-10 - Becoming a Data Scientist - Episode 14 - Jamie Dumas
• 2017-01-08 - Linear Digressions - Zero Shot Translation

Upcoming Conferences

• January 25-26 2017, Big Data Innovation Summit, Las Vegas, NV
• January 26-27 2017, Deep Learning Summit, San Francisco, CA

Our Favorite Blog Listings

• O’Reilly Ideas
• R-Bloggers
• Revolutions
• Azure Machine Learning
• Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog

Please send any suggestions to: Decision Tree We would love to hear from you.