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AI by the numbers, May 2019
AI optimists drive enterprise adoption US federal government contract obligations and AI-related investments grew almost 75% to nearly $700 million between fiscal 2016 and 2018 [Federal News Network]. 85% of US CEOs and business leaders are AI optimists; 87% are … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, AI markets, AI Predictions, AI Trends, jobs, Machine Learning
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Why Israel is the leader of the $100B medical marijuana market
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 (Barak is Chairman … Continue reading
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How to Make Smart Cities Cybrsecurity Resilient
By 2050, about 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in cities. Using the Internet of Things, analyzing lots of data, putting more services online—all herald the digital transformation of cities. Becoming digital, however, means a new life … Continue reading
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Competing on AI: The New ‘New Science of Winning’
Data is eating the world, one buzzword at a time. In 2017, The Economist declared in “Data is Giving Rise to a New Economy”: “Data are to this century what oil was to the last one—a driver of growth and change.” And … Continue reading
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2018 Predictions: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
It is somewhat safe to predict that AI will continue to be at the top of the hype cycle in 2018. But the following 51 predictions also envision it becoming more practical and useful, automating some jobs and augmenting many … Continue reading
2018 Predictions: Cybersecurity
Like death and taxes, there are only two safe predictions about cybersecurity in 2018: There will be more spectacular data breaches and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect on May 25. But as the continuing digital transformation … Continue reading
Cybersecurity Trends According to Cisco and Tennessee’s Transportation CIO
Digital transformation is rapidly moving the transportation industry from a closed, proprietary and analog ecosystem to open, networked, always-on mobility platform. It is already a prime example of the efficiency and revenue-generating potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) and … Continue reading
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Digital Guardian Cybersecurity at Jabil
When John Graham joined Jabil four years ago as its first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), he found an IT environment that was an early adopter of cloud computing but did not have a security focus. Capitalizing on the availability … Continue reading
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