Antisocial media and AI in play at Oxford Science and Ideas Festival

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Issue Highlights: Antisocial media and AI in play at Oxford Science and Ideas Festival Top 10 Artificial Intelligence stories of 2018 West Midlands Police turns to predictive analytics Silicon Valley startups look to plug gaps in data value chain Data firms join forces to help Path beat malaria

Antisocial media and AI in play at Oxford Science and Ideas Festival Facebook and other forms of social media were discussed at two linked events at the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival, alongside artificial intelligence and how it might augment humanity Read Now

Top 10 Artificial Intelligence stories of 2018 As machine learning find more and more application areas, some experts believe there are certain problem areas that the AI approaches currently in use cannot easily solve. Problems such as modelling climate change show the limits of AI pattern matching. Instead, something is needed that can combine machine learning with physical modelling. Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 AI stories of 2018. Read Now

West Midlands Police turns to predictive analytics Force is developing a system to identify potential perpetrators of violent crime and aims to target resources – but how viable is the system and what are the challenges? Read Now

Silicon Valley startups look to plug gaps in data value chain A group of California-based startups and early-stage data management companies are promising CIOs ways to plug gaps in the data-to-insight value chain Read Now

Data firms join forces to help Path beat malaria Tableau, Mapbox, Exasol and Alteryx commit $4.3m to back anti-malaria scheme in sub-Saharan Africa run by health charity Read Now

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