The Global AI Index 2019
Tortoise ThinkIn – The Global AI Index Launch in London. In the video you’ll see my little contribution to the conversation: “How to support ML engineers who care about Ethics? “ My recommendation is...
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Embedded EthiCS @ Harvard: bringing ethical reasoning into the computer science curriculum.
Ethical reasoning is an essential skill for today’s computer scientists. The Embedded EthiCS distributed pedagogy embeds philosophers directly into computer science courses to teach students how to think through the ethical and social implications...
BI-DIMENSIONAL PARTITIONING: THE KEY FOR PERFORMANCE IN GROWING TIME-SERIES DATA
December 11, 2019 KEY CONCEPTS A database is essentially “an organized collection of data.” Of course, this idea of being “organized” holds an entire world within, which is a primary reason why databases have...
On the database market. Q&A with Ariff Kassam
Q1. How is the database market evolving? The database is moving to cloud; the analysts agree. Today, most of the new database development is going cloud first. That means new features and capabilities will be...
On Couchbase Analytics. Q&A with Sachin Smotra
Q1. How are customers using Couchbase Analytics today? Couchbase Analytics is being used in multiple industries and across many different use cases. Some examples include: A top cruise line is revolutionizing the passenger experience...
On Software flight recording. Q&A with Jonathan Harris
VP of Product at Undo, Jonathan Harris, just published a new technical paper on Resolving Concurrency Defects – Best Practices. In this interview, I talk to Jonathan about concurrent processing and the issues that arise...
Warehouse Not Dead!
Jérôme Darmont, Pegdwendé N. Sawadogo Université de Lyon, Lyon 2, ERIC EA 3083 Since the 1990s, Data Warehouses (DWs) have been the foundation of business intelligence applications. Through Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) processes,...
On Machine Learning in SQL. Q&A with Jeff Fried
Q1. Does it make sense to offer Machine Learning (ML) features in SQL? Absolutely! SQL is powerful and is in use in millions of data-intensive applications. Because data is so vital, SQL is also among the most...
On Data and FAIR principles. Q&A with Kees van Bochove
Q1. FAIR stands for Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability. For many organisations, where large data assets have been generated and acquired over a long period of time, it is challenging to establish and maintain these...
On NuoDB 4.0 Q&A with Ariff Kassam
Q1. What are the key features of NuoDB 4.0? NuoDB 4.0 significantly expands on our cloud-native, cloud-agnostic capabilities and provides autonomous database management with always-on fault-tolerant database resiliency. Cloud Agnostic: In addition to our...