Operational Database Management Systems
Edited by Robin Bell, Ph.D., Professor of Entrepreneurship and Scott Andrews, Ph.D., Head of Worcester Business School, Worcester Business School, University of Worcester, UK Publication Date: 2026 ISBN: 978 1 03534 783 4 Elgar...
by Harriet Farlow June 2026, 392 pp. ISBN-13: 9781718504660 No Starch Press If you’re a security practitioner learning to operate in AI environments, or an ML engineer who needs to understand what adversaries actually...
Q1. Having served as the CIO for the City of Palo Alto, you have been at the epicenter of urban innovation and smart city development. As cities deploy increasingly pervasive IoT sensors, autonomous systems, and...
Q1. You and your co-editor I. Glenn Cohen brought together a genuinely international collection of legal experts spanning Asia, Europe, and the US, examining both major religious and secular ethical traditions alongside legal frameworks....
Q1. At Kepler, your team focuses on “separating what AI does well from what code does well” to ensure absolute ground truth. In the context of financial services—where a misplaced decimal point can break a...
Q1. You and Dr. Monideepa Roy argue for a mechanism-agnostic definition of intelligence — one based not on how a system is built, but on what it demonstrably does: perceive, predict, learn, adapt, collaborate, and...
Q1. Kartik, you have built massive data infrastructures at both LinkedIn and Pinterest. As we transition from traditional software engineering to “Agentic Engineering,” how do the core competencies of a top-tier engineer change when...
Q1. You open AI for Smarties by acknowledging that you kept meeting highly educated people who were fascinated by AI but, in your words, “had no clue of what’s inside” — unable to answer what a neuron...
Q1. What failure occurs when AI-assisted decision-making operates without an explicit Feedback layer? The specific failure mode is what I call loop erosion: the system continues to optimize under the assumption that real-world consequences...
By Paul Speciale. Most enterprise GenAI initiatives focus on the model, but the projects that stall do so for a different reason entirely: the underlying data infrastructure simply can’t support what AI actually demands....