Q&A with Chief Data Officers: Steve Adler
“IT solutions should compliment the beauty of humanity. We must not expect humans to become machines. This is what I have learned working with people in 60 countries in 21 years at IBM.”– Steve...
Category: Expert Articles
On Blockchain. Q&A with Jonathan Reichental, CIO, City of Palo Alto
“Every organization’s leadership and every technologist should learn more about this technology. It has vast potential for disruption in every industry.”–Jonathan Reichental Q1. What is Blockchain and why is it so important? At an...
Predictions from experts on 2018 computing and business trends: Nikita Ivanov and Terry Erisman
The predictions look to the horizon of in-memory computing, a computing paradigm that sits atop existing database installments to speed applications and transactions by as much as 1,000x, enabling cost-effective digital transformation for businesses...
Analysis: Job Loss and Artificial Intelligence
by Ikhlaq Sidhu Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is currently one of the most popular topics in industry, academia, and the press, with seemingly endless applications in everything from matchmaking to self-driving cars. Tesla, Google, and many others...
On “Data Quality”
I have interviewed a number of Data Scientists and asked them questions on Data Quality. I listed their reply, below. Perhaps they are useful for your work. Take what you think is relevant for you...
Beyond the Molecule and Beyond the Device: Machine Learning and the Future of Healthcare
By Shomit Ghose, Onset Ventures – August 2017 “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” — Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Facebook Hammerbacher’s Lament Are we fated to...
Q&A with Data Scientists: Jeff Saltz
Jeff Saltz is currently an Associate Professor at Syracuse University, in the School of Information Studies. His research and teaching focus on helping organizations leverage information technology and data for competitive advantage. Specifically, Jeff’s current research...
Blockchain, Machine Learning and its impact on the Digital Ecosystems
BY Sanjeev Verma, PhD Technologies like Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Machine Learning are creating new digital ecosystem architectures and transforming the user behavior, experiences and business models. Current centralized model built around cloud based architecture is likely to be slowly challenged by a new truly decentralized and distributed...
Semantic Analysis: When Computers will Understand us
BY Tetyana Loskutova This essay aims to shed light on the issues of context in computerised semantic analysis. Semantic analysis is the field of study concerned with meaning. Meaning is routinely encoded by humans...
Principles of Tiered Storage
BY Stephen Dillon Tiered Storage is a concept gaining revitalized importance, as companies realize the costs associated with IoT. Although the concept of Tiered Storage dates to the 90s, modern storage and database solutions now...