BALANCED Media|Technology (BALANCED) today announced the company has won the prestigious 2020 Emerging Company Innovation Award from Tech Titans.
DALLAS, Oct. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BALANCED Media|Technology (BALANCED) today announced the company has won the prestigious 2020 Emerging Company Innovation Award from Tech Titans. BALANCED is a purpose-driven technology company that crowdsources human interaction and intuition through human computational gaming (HCG) to facilitate the processing of data and training of machine learning (ML) algorithms. The Tech Titans Awards recognize the elite in North Texas technology – individuals currently transforming the high-tech industry and giving companies competitive edges as well as companies leading the way in innovation and technical applications. The Emerging Company Innovation Award recognizes outstanding innovation and unique accomplishments through potential breakthrough technology, processes or services within the technology and communications industry. BALANCED developed the HEWMEN® technology, a new breed of AI platform that combines gaming, distributed computing, and human intelligence to improve ML. HEWMEN discreetly injects scientific datasets into new or existing video games, where the data can be cleaned, clustered, and labeled. Humans, through gameplay, then apply intuition to train and accelerate machine learning, leading to more accurate and precise models using much smaller data sets than required by traditional ML training models. As players interact with the games, they simultaneously act upon datasets to solve complex problems or to help a computer vision algorithm learn to “read” a certain type of image. These improvements can utilize smaller data sets, improve pipelines, and allow for better talent utilization. “At BALANCED we are creating a world in which time spent enjoying entertainment becomes time spent unlocking opportunity,” said Robert M. Atkins, BALANCED’s CEO. “We are honored that Tech Titans shares our excitement for this vision of bringing purpose to play and accomplishing that which cannot be done by man or machine alone.” In addition to the award, BALANCED’s CTO, Corey Clark, PhD, was a finalist for the 2020 Corporate CTO Award which recognizes technical leadership, team building, creation and maintenance of a creative environment and market awareness skills. In 2019, Clark was the winner of Tech Titan’s Technology Inventor award. Clark, who is also the deputy director of research at Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Guildhall, led a SMU team that developed an app with nonprofit literacy provider Literacy Instruction for Texas (LIFT), and the team won $2.5 million in a competition hosted by the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE. BALANCED has a number of initiatives underway including:
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