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Harvard University’s Center for Brain Science received a gift of more than $300,000 per year for up to five years from the NTT Research Foundation, the foundation announced Thursday. According to the announcement, the program will be funded for two years with a possible three-year extension. The gift will establish a fund supporting postdoctoral research […]

The NTT Research Foundation has made a gift to establish the Harvard University Center for Brain Science (CBS)-NTT Fellowship Program in the new field of Physics of Intelligence. The two-year gift, renewable for up to three more years, creates a fund that supports post-doctoral research in the physics of intelligence, an emerging field that uses

They have (arguably) always been fairly fond of digital intelligence as it has evolved through various decades and iterations that have taken it from the AI we used to consider ‘like in the movies’ throughout the quarter century before the millennium – as it has now progressed to become the AI ‘that’s really real with

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is built using neural networks that mimic the neural pathways in our own brains. Yet despite the powerful capabilities of current AI technology, its software can’t yet be classed as being independently intelligent. Further, the issue of hallucinations and black box phenomenons highlights the stark gap between the exciting

At a press conference in San Francisco, NTT researchers said the company has created a new large language model (LLM) integration that can see and process graphical elements of documents. It also said it has initiated a new field of science, “the physics of intelligence,” to study sustainable and trustworthy AI. It teamed up with Harvard University

Amanda Razani: Hello. So I am really enjoying the Upgrade 2024 Conference here in San Francisco this week. And we’ve had lots of announcements and some key information shared so far, so can you go into some of those key announcements? Kazuhiro Gomi: I’d like to talk a little bit about NTT’s engagement and commitment to

Harvard’s Center for Brain Science has received a gift from the NTT Research Foundation to establish the Center for Brain Science-NTT Fellowship Program. The two-year gift, renewable for up to three more years, creates a fund that supports postdoctoral research in the physics of intelligence, an emerging field that uses physics to tackle fundamental questions in intelligence,

Cryptography is an obscure discipline. Unless you’re in big tech, a university or a research organization, you’re unlikely to meet its practitioners. Even then, you might have to search to find them. And then work hard to understand what they’re doing. But this field is critical to privacy and security in our digital age—and the

As we now look to NTT Research’s Upgrade 2024, this two-day event is once again scheduled to analyse enterprise software and cloud technology innovations around privacy, precision medicine, optical devices and the digital workplace. The conference features a strong element of hands-on demonstration setups (some working products, some at the applied prototype stage and some even

Over the past 20 years, innovation and new products seemed to come mainly from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and other venture capitalist investments. But that may be changing, as research labs, academics and research and development groups come up with new ways to develop “what’s coming next.” In this episode, Keith chats with Chris Shaw, CMO

Generative AI platforms have dominated news cycles for much of 2023 and that probably won’t abate in 2024. That isn’t surprising. The technology is spreading through every facet of life. Education, employment, infrastructure, law, government, consumer spending… all of it has some application for AI for claimed good and obvious bad. And all of the

To sell us more goods and services, the algorithms of Google, Facebook and Amazon exhaustively parse our digital footprints. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with companies seeking to better understand their customers. However, over the past 20 years the practice of analyzing user data hasn’t advanced much beyond serving the business models of these tech giants. That could