Information Technology

The development of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and extended reality (XR) technologies expect to accelerate in upcoming years. Technology developers and adopters across various industries experiment with these innovations for mass deployment, driving the shift from product testing for specific application requirements to scaling th...

The demand for intelligent transportation system (ITS) has also evolved with the progress transportation systems have made over the years. However, effective utilization of transportation systems depends on proper management of input data sources which describe the performance of the system and the state of system controls. The nature and quality...

When they work together, software development and operations teams can advance a company's business transformation. The integration of these teams, also known as DevOps, streamlines the legacy software development process. However, with the growing emphasis on the digital transformation, the pace of development and innovation has increased. Therefo...

The ‘2021 Technology Convergence Scenarios is a powerful technology foresighting research built on the ‘Top 50 Emerging Technologies & Growth Opportunities program. This research is an effort at analyzing the Top 50 emerging technologies, and the strength of interconnects between these technologies to potentially combine with each other. The im...

As digitization progresses across industries, AI is gaining a ubiquitous adoption as more and more business processes are being automated. With this, the expectations from AI in terms of what applications can be realized using AI is also expanding, and thus a more complex set of neural networks have been introduced which are expected to leverage ad...

29 Jul 2021  |  Global  |  Technology Research

Federated Learning: New Approach to Building AI Models

Leveraging Open Source Tools to Accelerate Technology Development across Organizations and Regions

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Traditional machine learning (ML) models are centralized and involve vast amounts of data. However, both the urgency to guarantee data privacy and to abide by strict regulations imposed across regions have contributed to the emergence of a new and powerful alternative technique, federated learning. Instead of acquiring data from a central server or...

Traditional inspection approaches for solar and wind farms require are labor intensive and time-consuming techniques. The experts have to be dispatched to the fields, capture the photos, and perform the inspection tasks. In some cases, the image may not be complete and clear as needed, which causes difficulties for further diagnosis and damages ana...

In 2020, the retail industry faced tremendous challenges, as COVID-19 caused disruptions in product supply and demand; in the labor pool; and in consumer spending. To address the challenges, retailers accelerated their digitalization strategies. The retailers best positioned to emerge stronger from COVID-19 were those that leveraged a cloud foundat...

For financial institutions, the first months of 2020 were a test of operational agility. In response to COVID-19's chaos, including branch shutdowns, concerns about employee health and safety, and shifting government mandates, the financial firms best able to pivot were those that were already well into their cloud journeys. Such firms leveraged a ...