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AI professionals need to work to “diminish the misuse of AI at every layer from product teams to core technology,” said Cristian Canton, head of Facebook’s AI Red Team specialising in discovering, understanding and mitigating potential threats posed to businesses using Artificial Intelligence, on the second day of the AI & Big Data Congress. This [...]
Multi-layer data platform for the management and anticipation of odour episodes in port environments through the concept of citizen science. The NASAPP project develops a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform of multilayer data that allows monitoring odours in real-time through the concept of citizen science, adding to the current tools [...]
The impact of Artificial Intelligence hinges on collaboration between businesses, universities and NGOs to jointly evaluate “data and information more quickly and achieve their objectives,” said Anna N. Schlegel, Vice President of Product, International Markets and Globalisation at ProCore Technologies, in her opening talk at the AI & Big Data Congress today. In her view “partnerships [...]
This September in Barcelona, the AI & Big Data Congress will address the new challenges, trends and best practices of ground-breaking businesses in Artificial Intelligence, a technology that is estimated will generate an additional $15.7 trillion increase in global GDP by 2030 according to figures compiled in the ‘Analysis of specialisation in artificial intelligence in Catalonia’ report. [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European Glomicave project which is to develop a new digital platform which can process large-scale omics datasets using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence by leveraging pre-existing data to enhance our understanding of biological systems as a whole. The project, which has funding coming to €6,372,583, addresses the need to build systems which can relate genotypes, i.e. [...]
Cafès Cornellà has innovated with the Eurecat technology centre to push its digitalisation process forward. It includes technologies such as the Internet of Things, advanced data analytics and machine learning to track manufacturing processes and the stages in the hospitality industry right up to the final cup of coffee. Cafès Cornellà’s digital conversion process is part of the company’s ‘Decoding Coffee’ digitalisation [...]
Safety, accessibility and service efficiency are the main factors to consider for women metro and rail users based on the feedback and satisfaction levels of 1,100 male and female users in Catalonia, Ireland and Poland compiled as part of the European Diamond project coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre. Women users surveyed chiefly rate station safety, good [...]
The European Smooth project coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre has opened a call for applications until 30 January addressed to small businesses to assess their compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) free of charge and also get tips on how to enhance their data processing. The project “is aimed at the small [...]
The predictive capability afforded by artificial intelligence puts businesses at a competitive advantage. This was spelled out at the AI & Big Data Congress which emphasised the importance of early adoption of this technology in generating more economic activity and jobs along with the support it provides in reworking organisational intelligence against today’s backdrop of [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has today hosted the presentation of the first project using big data analysis and artificial intelligence to prevent epidemics by helping to predict, identify and mitigate their spread. Technical coordination will be provided by the Center for Innovation in Data tech and Artificial Intelligence (CIDAI). The project is to use advanced digital technology to deliver new mathematical [...]
