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

AI and IoT Among Disruptive Enterprise Technologies to Watch

Posted on June 30, 2016 by GilPress

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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A Primer on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning from Andreesen Horowitz

Posted on June 29, 2016 by GilPress

[vimeo 170189199 w=640 h=360] Things are clearly progressing rapidly when it comes to machine intelligence. But how did we get here, after not one but multiple “A.I. winters”? What’s the breakthrough? And why is Silicon Valley buzzing about artificial intelligence … Continue reading →

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Artificial Intelligence is the New Big Data

Posted on June 29, 2016 by GilPress

Source: CB Insights Trends

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Artificial Intelligence: Most Active Corporate Investors

Posted on June 28, 2016 by GilPress

CB Insights: Artificial intelligence dealmaking has exploded recently, leaping to a new quarterly record of over 140 deals in Q1’16. Corporates and their venture capital groups are among the most active investors in this category (tech corporates have also been … Continue reading →

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31 Startups Disrupting the Construction Industry

Posted on June 27, 2016 by GilPress

CB Insights: Construction tech, while still nascent, is a growing industry with funding growing 5x in 2015 alone. Collaboration Software – This was the largest category in our market map and includes tools that offer task management, job-site scheduling, and document management … Continue reading →

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Tipping Point: Digital Advertising to Eclipse TV Advertising in 2017

Posted on June 24, 2016 by GilPress

FT: The bulk of spending by brands on digital advertising is going to Google and Facebook. Combined, they accounted for 75 per cent of all new online ad spending in 2015, according to the Internet Trends report published this month … Continue reading →

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25 Most-Funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startups

Posted on June 22, 2016 by GilPress

  Source: Louis Columbus

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The Data on Data Scientists (Infographic)

Posted on June 22, 2016 by GilPress

Source: Bob Hayes

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Artificial Intelligence: An Overview by Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research (Video)

Posted on June 22, 2016 by GilPress

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uHavVE018M?rel=0] Definition of AI: Study of computational mechanisms underlying thoughts and intelligent behavior. “AI Winter” has been very productive. I tell researchers on our team that if you can just build the thumb and forefinger into computational systems, you … Continue reading →

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Wearable adoption more than doubled in past two years

Posted on June 21, 2016 by GilPress

VB: The adoption of wearables has skyrocketed, rising from 21 percent of the U.S. population in 2014 to 49 percent in 2016, according to a report by consulting firm PwC. And parents are significantly more likely to own not just … Continue reading →

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