Author Archives: GilPress

About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

Saving the Bees with AI and Robotics

Beewise delivers beekeeping at scale with Beehome, a newly invented beehive using precision robotics, computer vision and AI to help beekeepers fight the alarming decline in the global bee population. Read more

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New Funding for Precision Oncology Platform

OncoHost raises $35 million to further develop and test its precision oncology platform, combining proprietary bioinformatics, signal processing, and machine learning. Read more

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Timeline of Modern Computing

Key milestones in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data. Read more

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Northeastern University Launches The Institute For Experiential AI

Aiming to answer these questions, Northeastern University launched earlier this month a new research center, the Institute for Experiential AI. It is a part of the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, established by Northeastern two years ago with a $100 million grant from … Continue reading

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A New History of Modern Computing

A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi is a must-read for investors, entrepreneurs, executives, and anyone interested in understanding the technology that is embedded in the lives of most of the world’s population. Read more

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How Museums Will Move Into the 21st Century

Muse.run provides museum curators with new possibilities for designing engaging experiences for existing and new audiences, and attract people that want to experience together a new type of a visit to a museum, from families to school groups to corporate … Continue reading

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A New Search Engine

You.com is a new online search engine with an innovative interface design and user experience. Read more

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Predicting Response to Cancer Treatments

OncoHost is developing the first of its kind Host Response Profiling platform for predicting responsiveness to cancer therapies. Read more

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The Impact of AI and Quantum Computing on Drug Discovery

AI and quantum computing could transform drug discovery to make it faster, easier, and cheaper. Read more

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Improving Healthcare AI by Fixing Data Quality

Centaur Labs harnesses collective human intelligence to improve the quality of medical data used by AI systems in healthcare applications. Read more

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