Furhaad Shah

IBM Signs 10 Year Outsourcing Contract Worth $1.25 billion with ABN AMRO

IBM and ABN AMRO have signed a 10-year, multibillion-dollar services agreement...

Eminent Scientist Stephen Hawking Worried About the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Stephen Hawking, the world renowned cosmologist and author voiced his concern...

Global BI Software Provider Deploys New Intuitive Embedded Dashboard – TIBCO Jaspersoft® 6

TIBCO, an infrastructure and business intelligence software innovator announced...

Northeastern University Rolls Out Tailor-Made Data Analytics Courses to Counter Imminent Skill Shortage

There will be a dearth of data-analysts to the tune of 140,000 to 190,000...

US NSF to Fund HPCs – Intended to Pump Up Computational Capacity and Capability

The U.S. National Science Foundation last week announced support for two new...

Computer Scientists Warn Against Biased Nature of Data Sets Gleaned from Social Networking Sites

Two computer scientists have warned about the biased nature of Social media...

Facebook Conducts ‘Gratefulness Analysis’ on US Facebook Users, in the Spirit of Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving, Facebook wanted to find out what its users are most ‘thankful’ about, So it carried out an analysis on anonymized, aggregate data by English speakers in the United States. Inspired by recent...

Democratising the Cloud Marketplace with UberCloud

Two years ago, Wolfgang Gentzsch and Burak Yenier co-founded UberCloud, a cloud marketplace where engineers and scientists can discover, try and buy a range of cloud computing solutions. As well as improving the ease of...

UN Panel Approves Landmark “The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age” Resolution to Check Intrusive Surveillance

In the wake of the Snowden disclosures,”The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age” – a resolution urging member states for protection and respect of privacy in the digital age – has been approved by the UN general...

Big Data Centric Contract Drives WANdisco Trading Up

WANdisco, a distributed and cloud computing service provider, witnessed a 13 per cent surge in trading on Wednesday – an aftermath of acquiring a contract with US based banking giant Capital One Financial...

Dropping Stealth Mode, A.I. Innovator Sentient Raises $103.5M in Series C

Sentient Technologies, a firm with intentions to harness massively scaled artificial intelligence, has moved out of stealth mode to garner $103.5 million in Series C funding. “We’re extremely encouraged with the...

Data Virtualisation Startup – Primary Data – Ropes in Veteran Steve Wozniak as Chief Scientist

Primary Data is a data virtualisation startup that emerged from stealth earlier last week at DEMO Fall 2014 and announced the involvement of Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak as Chief Scientist of the company. Steve...

Telit Launches First Big Data Challenge in Collaboration with Google Cloud Platform

Telit Wireless Solutions, an enabler of the global machine-to-machine (m2m) movement has announced the loT Big Data challenge in collaboration with Google Cloud Platform. It is aimed at promoting and accelerating...

User Data Under the Microscope Again with New Anti-terrorism Legislation in UK

U.K. Home secretary, Theresa May announced an anti-terrorism legislation which requires internet providers to furnish all data to authorities. The bill will be published this week and fast-tracked through the Parliament...

Qubole Provides Self-managing Data Platform as a Service on Microsoft Azure

Qubole, a self-service Platform for Big Data Analytics, announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft Azure in a step to make Big Data solutions more accessible to more people on more platforms. Big Data is an...

Accenture, MIT Invite Research Proposals and Announce Seed Funding for Non-tenured Professors

It was announced at the Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics Innovation Consortium event, that research proposals are invited to discover advanced analytics solutions for the challenging problems faced by...

First Google Cloud-Based Warehouse for Mobile and Internet of Things Sources Announced by OneFold

OneFold announced the public beta of its platform BigData Warehouse for terabytes of semi-structured JSON and NoSQL data from mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) data sources. The company is founded by engineer...

Balloons Fly High with Google’s Project Loon’s New Autofill Equipment and Manoeuvring Capabilities

Google’s visionary Project Loon, introduced a year back with the objective of using balloons for connecting rural, remote, and underserved areas and for helping with communications after natural disasters announced a...

A Team of Researchers Has Found a Way to Predict the Stock Market Using Search Terms

Weeks before the release of their paper, “Quantifying the semantics of search behavior before stock market moves”, Dataconomy met with Dr. Suzy Moat and Dr. Tobias Preis to discuss their research on predicting the...

Steve Ballmer Advocates Machine Learning as the Next Era of Computer Science

Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO and Harvard alumnus; who announced a significant donation to the Computer Science Department at Harvard last week is advocating machine learning as the next era of computer science....

Uber and Google Under Scrutiny for Misuse of Personal Data

In a recent controversy Uber was slapped with “sexism and misogyny” accusations by Pando Daily’s Sarah Lacy. She stated in her article “I still can’t believe that an office of Uber a Company valued at $18...

Skillsoft’s Big Data Initiative Delivers Improved Learning Engagement and Outcomes

Skillsoft has completed a series of live customer pilots as part of its goal to deliver an enhanced adaptive learning experience through big data. The efforts are powered by combining data from Skillsoft’s 19 million...

Google and Stanford Collaborate to Build Neural Image Caption Generator

Google and Stanford have combined the best of neural network models from two independent researches to create systems that can accurately describe images. Automatically describing the content of an image is a...

Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Expresses Concern about Rapidly Advancing Artificial Intelligence

In a recent outburst, Elon Musk spoke about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity. Amongst other sceptics Elon Musk debates the singularity theory — a hypothetical future moment where software becomes...

Global Supercomputer Leader Cray Inc. Awarded $80 million by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

KAUST has selected a trifecta of Cray’s storage, analytics and supercomputing systems from global supercomputer leader Cray Inc in a $80 million contract. Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision is focused on...