This Week in Machine Learning, 3 July 2017

This week’s top Machine Learning stories, including predicting riots, watching the Tour de France, and more!

Machine Learning is one of the most exciting fields in the world. Every week we discover something new, something amazing, something revolutionary. That’s why we created This Week in Machine Learning! Each week we publish a curated list of Machine Learning stories as a resource to help you keep pace with all these exciting developments. New posts will be published here first, and previous posts are archived on the Udacity blog.

Whether you’re currently enrolled in our Machine Learning Nanodegree program, already working in the field, or just pursuing a burgeoning interest in the subject, there will always be something here to inspire you!

Industry

Verizon and Boeing together support a $32.5 million round of financing for SparkCognition dedicated to predicting when critical systems will fail.

Automotive

Volkswagen expands its partnership with Nvidia to focus on other areas of its enterprise besides its prior work on self-driving cars under its Audio brand.

Education

Unity Technologies, makers of the popular Unity video game engine, announces a new graduate fellowship focusing on research in AI and machine learning.

Social

A study from Cardiff University finds that analysis of postings to Twitter can identify riots and other violent events significantly faster than traditional police reports.

Sports

Amaury Sport Organisation and Dimension Data partner to provide live machine learning-driven analysis and historical data to audiences watching the Tour de France.

Technology

Machine, a new integrated development environment for developing with TensorFlow, opens up to a closed alpha release.