SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting in 2021, students at specialized high schools in Seoul will be required to take artificial intelligence (AI) courses at school. According to a plan unveiled Tuesday by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, 10 of the specialized high schools in Seoul, or 14 percent, will be converted to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Element AI, a Canadian startup for artificial intelligence-powered software solutions, aims to join hands with more South Korean companies to help them adopt its cutting-edge technology, company executives said Tuesday. Based in Montreal, Element AI is an AI solutions provider co-founded in 2016 by AI authority and professor Yoshua [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Cambridge, U.S., Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, announced today the U.S. debut of its new cognitive assessment platform IntelliSpace Cognition. Leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and Philips’ cloud-based HealthSuite Digital Platform, IntelliSpace Cognition provides healthcare professionals with a powerful [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of South Korean researchers has developed an in-car voice assistant based on artificial intelligence (AI) communication technology that avoids initiating conversation with the driver when it is determined that it would be a distraction. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said Monday that a research [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s forum on artificial intelligence (AI) kicked off in Seoul on Monday with world-renowned scholars and industry experts to discuss the current and future development of the new technology. About 1,700 professors, students and industry officials gathered for the third annual forum held by the South Korean [...]
SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ GS:VRTU), a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and solutions that help clients change and disrupt markets through innovation engineering, today announced it is collaborating with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Cardinal Health, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use AI and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. said Wednesday it will invest 300 billion won (US$256.9 million) in the next four years to develop advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in various areas. KT said it will develop AI tech in four areas — language, image, analysis and problem solving — [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a survey, 3 out of 5 South Korean large firms are applying artificial intelligence (AI) to their actual work. More than half of the companies even have related organizations. According to a recent survey conducted by CEO Score, 57.3 percent (75 companies) of the total of 131 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has developed for the first time a smart irrigation system that identifies the bio-response of local crops and supplies water through artificial intelligence (AI). Created by the Rural Development Administration (RDA), the new smart irrigation system diagnoses the bio-response of crops according to weather changes with imaging [...]
JINCHEON, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading solar cells and modules manufacturer, Hanwha Q Cells, has said it plans to begin using an artificial intelligence-based production system around 2021 to beef up its competitiveness in the photovoltaic market. Hanwha Q Cells said its plant in Jincheon is set to use self-learning software to [...]