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The Cost and Speed of Computing and Communications 1956-2019
The Economist The price of computation today is roughly one hundred-millionth what it was in the 1970s, when the first microprocessors became commercially available (see chart). According to figures collected by John McCallum, a computer scientist, a megabyte of data … Continue reading
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59% of U.S. Adults Trust Law Enforcement to Use Facial Recognition Responsibly
Pew Research Center: 59% of US adults say it is acceptable for law enforcement to use facial recognition to assess security threats in public spaces; only 15% say it is acceptable for advertisers to use facial recognition to see how … Continue reading
The Rise and Rise of Required Digital Skills
Brookings Institution: In 2002, 56 percent of the jobs studied required low amounts of digital skills. Nearly 40 percent of jobs required medium digital skills and just 5 percent required high digital skills. A lot has changed. By 2016, the … Continue reading
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Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Government Technology
Gartner: Cloud office is the only technology to enter the Plateau of Productivity in the 2019 Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Government Technology, according to Gartner, Inc. The Plateau of Productivity highlights technologies that are hitting mainstream adoption within organizations…. … Continue reading
Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2019
Gartner: The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is unique among most Gartner Hype Cycles because it garners insights from more than 2,000 technologies into a succinct set of 29 emerging technologies and trends. This Hype Cycle specifically focuses on the … Continue reading
AI by the Numbers: 69% of IT Executives Say They Cannot Respond to Cybersecurity Threats Without AI
The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI highlighted the role of AI in cybersecurity defense and in scoring standardized tests, the relationships between data migrating to the cloud and data modernization, … Continue reading
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Elon Musk and Jack Ma Debate AI
“AI will open a new chapter so that humans will know themselves better. Most of the projections about AI are wrong … people who are street-smart about AI are not scared by it”—Jack Ma “Humans may become too slow. A … Continue reading
IDC: $2.6 Billion AI Software Platforms Market, Growing at 26.6%
“The artificial intelligence software platforms market experienced steady growth in 2018, with revenue of $2.6 billion and a growth rate of 26.6%,” says David Schubmehl, research director, Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems, IDC. ” IDC is seeing that in 2018 organizations have … Continue reading
AI Market Incremental Growth 2019-2023: $75.54 Billion
Source: Technavio
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