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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Facebook Adds AI Labs

Need for analytics and advanced AI capabilities continues to expand.  Saw this at today's Analytics for Leadership Meeting at the Center for Business Analytics Summit 2018. ...

 ... Participated in a talk on Analytics Leadership today at UC Business Summit meeting, sponsored by the U of Cincinnati center for Business Analytics.   Featured our award winning work on Supply Chain re-design for P&G.  Emphasizing design and risk.   Using both large scale optimization modeling and decision-centric AI methods. Talk was attended by C-level participants from P&G, GE  Aviation, Kroger, Macy's, Great American, Scripps, Cintas and others.  ... "

Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local Universities By Cade Metz

SAN FRANCISCO — At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, vowed that his company would “keep building” despite a swirl of questions around the way it has dealt with misinformation and the personal data of its users.

That is certainly true in the important area of artificial intelligence, which Mr. Zuckerberg says can help the social media giant deal with some of those problems.

Facebook is opening new A.I. labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, after hiring three A.I. and robotics professors from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University. The company hopes these seasoned researchers will help recruit and train other A.I. experts in the two cities, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, said in an interview.

As it builds these labs, Facebook is adding to pressure on universities and nonprofit A.I. research operations, which are already struggling to retain professors and other employees. ... " 

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