Company Connecting continues its focus on Edinburgh with an article from Dr Neil Urquhart of Edinburgh Napier on Intelligent Problem Solving. Many real-world scheduling and routing problems are difficult to solve, for a long time AI techniques worked towards simply finding a feasible solution. It was enough to build a plan for scheduling a production process, ... Read more

The legal profession, traditionally slow to embrace technology, is now at least partly embracing the opportunities associated with algorithm driven computer technology’ In the film ‘Back to the Future II’, Doc Brown tells our hero Marty McFly: “the justice system works swiftly in the future now that they’ve abolished all lawyers.” Doc was referencing an ... Read more

Continuing the series on Artificial Intelligence, Company Connecting interviewed Ed Challis, CEO of re:infer. re:infer uses artificial intelligence to provide its clients with detailed insights into customer behaviour. Hi there, could you tell us a little background about Re:Infer and how you got started?re:infer is a spin out from the machine learning research group at ... Read more

Company Connecting’s Artificial Intelligence Infographic takes a look at the information Company Connecting has on AI companies and their characteristics i.e. skills, size, sectors, and main focus areas. Included in our Artificial Intelligence infographic are companies with related skills including Big Data, Analytics and Machine Learning. In this infographic we have chosen to compare our ... Read more

Hi Alex, firstly could you tell us a little about you and your partners at Stepsize’s background?Sure. There are four co-founders at Stepsize; Nicolas Omeyer (in charge of Product), Matt (our CTO) and Jared (in charge of Front-end dev & Design), and myself (CEO). Nick, Matt and Jared all studied Mathematics at UCL. Jared earned ... Read more

This week Company Connecting is focusing on Artificial Intelligence and its interconnected field of Machine Learning. Machine Learning is an integral part of AI, training it to improve at the tasks it has been assigned. To expand this further, we bring you a video by Oxford Sparks all about Machine Learning. ‘Machine learning is all ... Read more

Echobox data scientists examined the optimal time to post on the world’s largest social network. They found that, contrary to internet received wisdom, there is no single answer. Good social media marketing tools therefore need to take into account your audience — or they will inevitably lead you astray. The Internet is awash with attempts to answer ... Read more

Hi there, could you tell us a little about Benevolent AI and your motivations as a company?Despite the huge growth of knowledge, scientific discovery has not changed for 50 years.  It’s impossible for humans alone to process all the information potentially available to advance scientific research.  A new scientific paper is published every 30 seconds, ... Read more

Today’s nutshell is David Eccles, Director of Wallscope. Wallscope is focused on developing Artificial Intelligence tools which semantically enhance ‘non semantic’ pieces of content.Wallscope was formed to enable David and his colleague Ian Allaway to  build on the research and development they had carried out in the area of semantic technology and linked data principles. ... Read more

Disruptive technology.  It may sound more from the realm of cyber crime and hackers, but it is precisely this kind of technology which is shaping our culture and transforming the world around us. Disruptive technology refers to innovations that go beyond simply improving on the way things are done or on what is already available ... Read more