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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

Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise (Infographic)

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Pokemon Go Market to Reach $56.8 Billion by 2020

MarketsAndMarkets: According to a new market research report “Augmented Reality Market by Component (Sensor, Display, & Software), Display Type (Head Mounted, Head-Up, Handheld, & Spatial), Application (Aerospace & Defense, Consumer, Commercial), and Geography – Global Forecast to 2020”, the total … Continue reading

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Print Vs Digital (Infographic)

Brian Wallace: When you reach for your book at the end of the day, is it paperback or electronic? Though eBooks were slated to overtake print books in 2015 it just didn’t happen. There was a 10% drop in eBook … Continue reading

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Machine Learning Applications by Industry

Louis Columbus, Machine Learning Is Redefining the Enterprise in 2016 Machine learning’s ability to scale across the broad spectrum of contract management, customer service, finance, legal, sales, quote-to-cash, quality, pricing and production challenges enterprises face is attributable to its ability to … Continue reading

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The Face of Artificial Intelligence

Source: Technology Review [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v09-n4buwYE?rel=0] Source: IEEE Spectrum   Source: MadAboutMovies Source: http://www.lkessler.com/brutefor.shtml Lee Se-dol, one of the world’s top Go players, won just one of the matches against the AlphaGo program, missing out on the $1 million prize up … Continue reading

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AI Safety and Robotics Laws (Infographic)

In July 1984, a factory robot in Jackson, Michigan, crushed a 34 year-old worker in the first ever robot-related death in the United States.  The robot thus violated Issac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics, “A robot may not injure a human being or, … Continue reading

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Press Mentions of Specific AI Applications

Source: CB Insights; Last accessed 5-Jul-2016. Magister Advisors: Specific AI capabilities are particularly strategic and will create immense value to many industries. Predictive analytics, speech and image recognition are the earliest verticals enabled by AI and rightly so because of … Continue reading

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The New Data Scientist Venn Diagram

Stephan Kolassa on StackExchange: I still think that Hacking Skills, Math & Statistics Knowledge and Substantive Expertise (shortened to “Programming”, “Statistics” and “Business” for legibility) are important… but I think that the role of Communication is important, too. All the insights … Continue reading

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The Data on FinTech Adoption

EY: We surveyed more than 10,000 digitally active people in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States to better understand the overall rate of FinTech adoption, which users are adopting which products and the outlook … Continue reading

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AI and IoT Among Disruptive Enterprise Technologies to Watch

Dion Hinchcliffe: In my analysis, all of the listed technologies should be on the short list of organizations in the process of digital transformation, which is to say enterprises that are proactively on a concerted effort to become more technology-centric … Continue reading

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