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New list highlights 40 top startups solving business problems with artificial intelligence

GeekWire

Four Seattle-area companies made a list of top private companies building business applications with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Amperity , which helps brands such as Alaska Airlines and Kroger organize and analyze individual customer data. Seattle-area companies that made the list include: .

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Report details how Alaska Airlines is using AI to better map flight routes and save time and fuel

GeekWire

Skilled human flight planners take care of all that — and now they’re getting help from artificial intelligence. In a new story this week , Fortune reports on how Seattle-based Alaska Airlines is pioneering the use of software to better predict weather and air traffic and help flight planners map out routes.

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CIOs Struggle To Keep Their Airlines In The Air

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airlines run on their IT systems and CIOs have to keep these running. However, when it comes to airlines, their CIOs are spending their time thinking about more practical things like just exactly how to go about keeping their critical IT systems up and running. The Challenge Of Running An Airline. Image Credit: Job Garcia.

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University student entrepreneurs pitch planet-protecting ideas in annual ‘Environmental Innovation Challenge’

GeekWire

A University of Washington team called AgroFilms won the $15,000 top prize at Thursday’s Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge held at the Seattle Center. ” C-1 Bio won both the $10,000 Second Place Prize and the $2,500 Climate Impact Prize at the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge.

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What Exactly The Heck Are Prescriptive Analytics?

Forrester IT

Forrester formally defines prescriptive analytics as: "Any combination of analytics, math, experiments, simulation, and/or artificial intelligence used to improve the effectiveness of decisions made by humans or by decision logic embedded in applications." american airlines. Prescriptive Analytics.

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Air Canada chatbot error underscores AI’s enterprise liability danger

Computerworld Vertical IT

A civil tribunal in Canada has ordered Air Canada to pay for a mistake made by a customer-service chatbot, highlighting the need for companies to better train and monitor their artificial intelligence (AI) tools. To read this article in full, please click here

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO Business Intelligence

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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