Latest Robots: VB Daily | May 2 - The DoD is inundated by data, but one company is trying to bring structure to it

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[1] MarkLogic partners with DoD and JAIC to structure data for national security

[2] Cleveland Clinic and PathAI partner to identify diseases and offer treatment

[3] Qualcomm led, latest 3GPP milestone will expand 5G

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[1] As organizations ingest more data by the day – and increasingly, in some cases, by the moment – they are looking to AI and ML for help. MarkLogic has developed its enterprise NoSQL platform as a means to support organizations in managing, exploiting and securing their data – and soon this tool will be leveraged for U.S. national security purposes.

The company is preparing to work with the Department of Defense (DoD) as part of a $241 million basic ordering agreement. This supports the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center's (JAIC) Data Readiness AI Development program, which is designed to scale AI across the Pentagon.

MarkLogic is one of several dozen organizations chosen to partner with JAIC, which was established in 2018 with a charge to "seize upon the transformative potential of AI technology for the benefit of America's national security." >> Read more.

[2] Traditionally, when patients undergo a biopsy, their sample tissues or cells have been sent to a pathology lab, put on blocks, cut into sections, stained with tint, then analyzed under a microscope. Even in this era of digitization, that process remains relatively unchanged.

But PathAI and Cleveland Clinic aim to change that. The northeastern Ohio medical system and the Boston-based developer of AI and deep learning medical pathology tools have embarked on a five-year research collaboration. This partnership will involve digitizing pathology specimens and linking clinical data with digitized pathology data.

The end goal is to help Cleveland Clinic leverage AI to more quickly identify diseases and match patients to the best therapies unique to their conditions. >> Read more.

[3] The latest iteration of cellular technology, 5G, is engineered to significantly increase the speed and responsiveness of wireless networks.

With 5G, data transferred over wireless broadband connections can travel at multi-gigabit speeds, with the potential to reach speeds as high as 20 gigabits per second. By the end of 2027, 5G subscriptions are estimated to reach more than 4.4 billion — demonstrating the popularity and demand for the technology. Wireless technology giant, Qualcomm, has been making massive strides in the technological evolution of mobile.

"We're driving where 5G is going and are excited to unveil another key 5G milestone — 3GPP Release-17," the company's senior vice president of engineering and global head of wireless research, John Smee, said. "This development completes the first phase of the tech evolution in the 5G decade and solidifies Release-17 as the foundation for expanding 5G into new devices, applications and deployments beyond phones across IoT, wearables, XR and more."

Qualcomm Technologies led the charge on efforts across several critical projects connected to Release-17, according to a press release. >> Read more.

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Matt Henderson

@matthen2

a nice way to see how the learning rate affects Stochastic Gradient Descent.
we can use SGD to control a robot arm - minimizing the distance to the target as a function of the angles θᵢ. Too low a learning rate gives slow inefficient learning, too high and we see instability https://t.co/sxXIluY1C6

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Rachael Tatman

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Sources say 95% of IT leaders report that Log4shell was "major wake-up call" for cloud security. The report highlights key trends in cloud workload security following Log4Shell, including insights into patching efforts and business impacts that still continue into 2022.

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