Tech Giant HUAWEI CLOUD joins
AI Expo Africa 2020 as Headline Partner HUAWEI CLOUD has joined AI Expo Africa 2020 as a headline partner. The annual event is Africa’s largest artificial intelligence (AI), data science and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) trade-focused show and conference. The third edition of the expo, which will be held as a virtual event this year, will take place on 3 and 4 September.
BESIDES MAKING the show more inclusive, the new format will make it easier for African startups and innovators to join the event along with European, US, Middle East and Asian companies seeking to enter the African market and unlock new customers and distribution partners. HUAWEI CLOUD has more 30 years of technological know-how, innovation and expertise in ICT infrastructure. With over 200+ cloud services across 18 categories, the firm’s affordable and inclusive AI services enable enterprises to grow in a stable, secure and progressive environment. The tech giant spans many availability zones within geographic regions around the world, with global data centres in Johannesburg, Bankgok, Singapore, Sao Paolo, Buenos Aires, Lima, Santiago, Mexico City, as well as in China. Its recent successes in the AI field include
the implementation of a new automated traffic system to ease congestion in Nairobi, Kenya. HUAWEI CLOUD has also developed more than 60 general purpose solutions such as SAP, HPC, IoT, security, DevOps and OPv6, and over 80 industryspecific solutions for various sectors like manufacturing, e-commerce, gaming finance, Internet of Things (IoT) as well as Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In addition, HUAWEI CLOUD provides a powerful computing platform and easy-to-use development platform to support Huawei’s full-stack, all-scenario AI strategy. HUAWEI CLOUD is the latest in a string of international firms and organisations that have signed up as as sponsors and will be exhibiting at AI Expo Africa 2020. These include UK-based RPA pioneer Blue Prism, and US-based cloud customer experience market leader Genesys. ai
UKZN RESEARCHERS AMONG GLOBAL
3RD QUARTER 2020
Team that Introduced new Method for ML Classifications in Quantum Computing
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A team of quantum information researchers made up of scientists from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Data Cybernetics in Germany and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in July introduced a new method for machine-learning classifications in quantum computing.
PHYS.ORG reported in an article in early July that the research team, which was led Professor June-too Kevin Rhee from KAIST’s School of Electrical Engineering had proposed a quantum classifier based on quantum state fidelity by using a different initial state and replacing the Hadamard classification with a swap test. This method, Phys.org explained, is expected to significantly enhance the classification tasks when the training dataset is small, by exploiting the quantum advantage in finding non-linear features in a large feature space. The new method provides new insights for improving the accuracy of quantum machine learning.
Read more about the new method in this paper: Quantum classifier with tailored quantum kernel ai
