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

Best of 2019: Betting on Data Eating the World

Posted on January 22, 2020 by GilPress

[July 23, 2109] Data is eating the world. All businesses, non-profits, and governments around the world are now in full digital transformation mode, figuring out what data can do to the quality of their decisions and the effectiveness of their … Continue reading →

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Shakey, the World’s First Mobile Intelligent Robot

Posted on January 21, 2020 by GilPress

Developed at the Artificial Intelligence Center of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1966 to 1972, SHAKEY was the world’s first mobile intelligent robot. According to the 2017 IEEE Milestone citation, it “could perceive its surroundings, infer implicit facts from explicit ones, … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: How Israel Became a Medical Cannabis Leader

Posted on January 16, 2020 by GilPress

[April 29, 2019] Opening the CannaTech conference earlier this month, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak quipped that Israel is now the “land of milk, honey and cannabis.” Given the recent performance of the cannabis-related stocks traded on the Tel-Aviv stock exchange … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: AI in Healthcare

Posted on January 15, 2020 by GilPress

[April 22, 2019] “The past fifty years,” says Dr. Eric Topol in Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Medicine Human Again, “have introduced important changes to radiology. As the medium moved from analog to digital… the whole process, extending from … Continue reading →

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Advancing Your AI Career

Posted on January 13, 2020 by GilPress

“AI Career Pathways” is designed to guide aspiring AI engineers in finding jobs and building a career. The table above shows Workera’s key findings about AI roles and the tasks they perform. You’ll find more insights like this in the … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: The Web at 30

Posted on January 10, 2020 by GilPress

[March 12, 2019] Tim Berners-Lee liberated data so it can eat the world. In his book Weaving the Web, he wrote: I was excited about escaping from the straightjacket of hierarchical documentation systems…. By being able to reference everything with … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: How AI Killed Google’s Social Network

Posted on January 9, 2020 by GilPress

[February 4, 2019] Facebook turns 15 today, after announcing last week a record profit and 30% revenue growth. Also today, “you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities or events,” in anticipation of the complete … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: 60 Years of Progress in AI

Posted on January 8, 2020 by GilPress

[January 8, 2019] Today is the first day of CES 2019 and artificial intelligence (AI) “will pervade the show,” says Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association. One hundred and thirty years ago today (January 8, 1889), Herman … Continue reading →

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Machine Learning Algorithms

Posted on December 22, 2019 by GilPress

Murat Durmus: an overview of the most proven algorithms that are mainly used in the field of predictive analytics

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AI Chips, Anyone? On Surging Markets and Spectacular Exits

Posted on December 20, 2019 by GilPress

March 11, 2019: Nvidia buys Mellanox for $6.9b The deal is the second largest ever acquisition in the Israeli high tech industry December 16, 2019: Intel Confirms $2 Billion Habana Labs Acquisition The deal marks Intel’s second-largest acquisition of an … Continue reading →

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