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- The Moon, Floods, and Solar Weather with Intel and NASA Frontier DevelopmentBy Intel AI Published On December 18, 2019
- Earlier this summer Intel® AI mentors partnered with researchers at NASA’s Frontier Development Lab (FDL) for an eight-week research sprint. During that time the researchers and their mentors used AI to tackle a host of issues, including prospecting on the moon, getting a better look at the sun, and predicting when and how floods will...
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- Voicebot Scaling Challenge: Throughput Leadership with CPUBy Intel AI Published On December 17, 2019
- Enterprises are exploring novel ways of providing stellar customer service. Voicebots are delivering just that – high quality customer service, available at any time, from anywhere. Gartner estimates that by 2020, 25% of customer service and support operations will integrate virtual customer assistant technology across engagement channels of voice, chat, and email. And the interactive...
read more - Progress takes patience – Restoring water to the Lower San Pedro RiverBy Linda Qian Published On December 17, 2019
- Arizona water restoration project on track to restore 73 million gallons of water per year Linda Qian is communications manager for Intel’s Global Public Affairs & Sustainability organization. Linda is one of several corporate hippies based in Arizona, where she enjoys the mild winters and detests the extremely hot summer months. My day job...
read more - IT Collaboration Leads to Unique Product InnovationBy Nufar Gaspar Published On December 16, 2019
- Intel IT is taking the concept of “IT shop” to a new level through our collaboration with Intel’s business units. We’ve previously written about how IT collaboration has enabled our product testing teams to build artificial intelligence (AI) into Intel’s validation processes, saving significant time and money. Recently, we pushed the envelope of IT collaboration...
read more - Teaching Robots Teamwork with MERLBy Intel AI Published On December 12, 2019
- Two key aspects of autonomous systems are perception and decision making. The first, perception, has benefited tremendously from advances in deep learning in areas such as computer vision. The second, decision making, falls largely under the umbrella of Reinforcement Learning (RL). The main premise of RL is that an agent learns to shape its actions...
read more - Improving Robotic Training with Goal-Conditioned Imitation LearningBy Intel AI Published On December 11, 2019
- Imitation Learning, where an agent learns how to perform a task based on a demonstration by another, is a common form of learning in robotics. Human training for robots is well-studied; it’s a mode of instruction that intuitively makes sense, even to non-experts. Humans, after all, learn by imitating other humans and replicating their behavior....
read more - Intel® Names Jeffrey J. Rittener Chief Government Affairs OfficerBy Intel Blog Admin Published On December 10, 2019
- SANTA CLARA, CA, Dec 10, 2018 – Intel® has appointed Jeff Rittener as Chief Government Affairs Officer and General Manager of Intel’s Governments, Markets and Trade group (GMT). In this role, Rittener is responsible for overseeing the company’s global government affairs efforts and the worldwide team of trade professionals responsible for ensuring the company’s full...
read more - IPAS: Security Advisories for December 2019By Jerry Bryant Published On December 10, 2019
- Hi everyone, It’s the second Tuesday of December 2019, and today we are releasing 11 security advisories ranging from driver updates to firmware and utilities. It should be noted that the majority of these issues were reported to Intel through our bug bounty program, and all of the external researchers worked with us to coordinate...
read more - New Research Shows How Neural Networks Process Invariant SpeechBy Intel AI Published On December 10, 2019
- Neural networks have been called a “black box” because parts of their decision making are famously opaque as processing happens in hidden layers. In a new paper, our team from Intel and MIT [1] has outlined how to probe the information content of these neural networks, shedding light on how speech patterns are processed inside...
read more - Own Your Impact: Actions To Stand Up for Human RightsBy We Are Intel Published On December 9, 2019
- This blog is posted on behalf of Mike McDonnell, Supply Chain Sustainability Senior Manager. Mike has been assessing supplier risks including human rights violations and environmental impact for more than 8 of his 23 years at Intel. He is dedicated to continuously improving Intel’s supply chain for the workers in it. Most people assume...
read more - AI brings hope in solving India’s Healthcare ChallengesBy Mario Romao Published On December 9, 2019
- By Mario Romao and Dr. Ramanathan Sethuraman Artificial Intelligence continues to make headlines all over the World, with nations launching AI Strategies, devising policies to bring AI benefits to the economy. Invariably, these strategies highlight the potential of AI to meet the challenges that healthcare systems face to ensure timely, high quality access to care...
read more - “Ready for anything”: Behind the scenes with one of Intel’s first respondersBy We Are Intel Published On December 6, 2019
- Before fire trucks or ambulances, Intel’s Life Safety responders are the first line of defense when there’s an onsite emergency. Meet Sara and learn what life is like as a first responder at Intel’s Ronler Acres, Hillsboro campus. Sara Wassam spent nearly 10 years in civilian law enforcement and over 16 years in the Air...
read more - Building the Future of the Communications Industry with IOWNBy Asha Keddy Published On December 5, 2019
- We already live in a data driven world, however, we only process and act upon a miniscule fraction of the data available to us. Imagine how transformative it would be to make all that data ‘actionable.’ We could transform our cities, our businesses, and our social interactions across distance. To build that future society, we...
read more - Celebration and Appreciation: Why It’s More Important Than EverBy We Are Intel Published On December 5, 2019
- This blog was posted on behalf of Shai Rubin. Shai is vice president in Manufacturing and Operations and serves as a site manager for Fab/Sort Manufacturing at Intel Corporation. Based in Arizona, he is responsible for operations at four Arizona fabrication facilities that currently produce a wide range of Intel products. In 1994, twenty-five...
read more - High Performance Computing Opens Possibilities for Smart CitiesBy Trish Damkroger Published On December 5, 2019
- High Performance Computing (HPC): it’s no longer just for government labs and academic institutions. In my conversations with members of the HPC community worldwide, I’m constantly inspired by new, novel HPC applications, including the need for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and high-performance data analytics to run the most complex workloads and process the mass amounts of...
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