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The Road to Zillions of Connected Things (IoT)
Fresh out of topping Gartner’s most hyped technologies list for the second year in a row, the Internet of Things (IoT) has kept its buzz going over the last couple of weeks with a series of announcements and new market analysis reports. … Continue reading
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Creative Destruction and the ‘Uber Effect’
CB Insights: We used CB Insights’ valuation data to look at how the rise of Uber’s valuation correlates with the market capitalization of Medallion Financial Corp (NASDAQ: TAXI). Medallion Financial is a publicly-traded company that originates, acquires, and services loans … Continue reading
10 Predictions for Digital and IT Transformation: Gartner
Gartner released today its top predictions for “the digital future… an algorithmic and smart machine-driven world where people and machines must define harmonious relationships”: 1) By 2018, 20 percent of business content will be authored by machines. Technologies with the … Continue reading
GE’s Internet of Things (IoT): The software platform, Predix, and new business model, GE Digital (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4-pFZEv3QQ?rel=0] On September 14, 2015, GE announced the creation of GE Digital, “a transformative move that brings together all of the digital capabilities from across the company into one organization.” It integrates GE’s Software Center, the expertise of GE’s global … Continue reading
The World’s #1 Data Scientist Talks about Data Science Skills and Tools
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzxW6buh9Y] Owen Zhang is ranked #1 on Kaggle, the online stadium for data science competitions. An engineer by training, Zhang says that data science is finding “practical solutions to not very well-defined problems,” similar to engineering. He believes that good data … Continue reading
A Sane Discussion of the Rising Fears of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
[vimeo 138319099 w=500 h=281] Rise of Concerns about AI: Reflections and Directions By Thomas G. Dietterich, Eric J. Horvitz Communications of the ACM, Vol. 58 No. 10, Pages 38-40 Discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) have jumped into the public eye over … Continue reading
EMC’s David Goulden on the Reasons for not Breaking up with VMware (Video)
http://player.theplatform.com/p/PhfuRC/vNP4WUiQeJFa/embed/select/FGx9a5if6xCz?autoPlay=true&t=259 David Goulden, EMC: “Our corporate clients are looking for fewer, more strategic technology partners, not more small partners. vendors re/code: Goulden is the CEO of EMC’s information infrastructure business unit, the biggest portion of the federation that includes its … Continue reading
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The Future of Online Shopping (Infographic)
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Data Science and Measuring Happiness
Is it possible to measure happiness? Can we compare countries on the basis of a universal yardstick for collective happiness similar to Gross National Product (GNP), the accepted measure for a country’s material well-being? How could data science contribute to … Continue reading