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

Data Scientists In Growing Demand, Survey Says

Posted on June 28, 2021 by GilPress

73% of data science and analytics teams planned to hire in Q1/Q2 of 2021 and 81% planned to hire in Q3/Q4 of 2021.  Read more

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Reinventing Drug Discovery with Quantum Computing

Posted on June 25, 2021 by GilPress

Polaris Quantum Biotech is reinventing drug discovery, reducing the time it takes to find candidate molecules for drug development from the typical three years to just four months.  Read more

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Upgrading Digital Media with AI

Posted on June 21, 2021 by GilPress

Israeli startup D-ID has developed AI with the potential to change how digital media is created, enhanced and used by the entertainment and media industries Read more

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A Very Short History of AI, 2021 Edition

Posted on May 21, 2021 by GilPress

The evolution of AI from theoretical concepts to machine logic to expert systems to machine learning to artificial neural networks and big data-based deep learning. Read more

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A Very Short History of Quantum Computing

Posted on May 19, 2021 by GilPress

40 years ago, Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman argued that “nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.” This was later perceived as a rallying cry for developing a quantum computer, leading to … Continue reading →

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The State of Data, April 2021

Posted on May 2, 2021 by GilPress

The data on the state-of-data in April 2021. Read more

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AI and Healthcare

Posted on April 30, 2021 by GilPress

Two AI luminaries, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng got together today on YouTube, to discuss the state of AI in healthcare. Read more

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AI and In-Vitro Fertilization

Posted on April 29, 2021 by GilPress

Using big data, AI, and computer vision technologies, Israeli startup AiVF aims to transform the process of In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Read more

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The Data Index, March 2021

Posted on April 5, 2021 by GilPress

Data is eating the world and there are numerous indicators of its ubiquitous presence in our lives. Read more

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The Future of Global Workforce Management

Posted on March 25, 2021 by GilPress

How do you get from $0 to $1.2 billion valuation in 60 months? You deliver the future of work now. Or, as Eynat Guez, CEO of Papaya Global, says laughing, “you put in a lot of working hours,” ten-year-worth of … Continue reading →

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