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

Most Hyped Technologies: Self-Driving Cars, Self-Service Analytics, IoT; No More Big Data Buzz

Posted on August 19, 2015 by GilPress

Gartner just released its 2015 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report. It’s our most reliable buzz bellwether, annually defining what’s in and what’s out. At the peak of inflated expectations just two years ago, Big Data was dethroned by the Internet of … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data Analytics | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

How Much Data is Generated Every Minute?

Posted on August 17, 2015 by GilPress

Source: DOMO

Posted in Misc | Leave a comment

What Makes the Internet of Things (IoT) Work (SlideShare)

Posted on August 16, 2015 by GilPress

[slideshare id=51024872&doc=9760-internet-of-things-part-2-slidesharev3-150728171647-lva1-app6892]

Posted in Internet of Things | Leave a comment

On Brontobyte Data and Other Big Words

Posted on August 13, 2015 by GilPress

Source: Datafloq Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum:  When Gartner released its annual Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies for 2014, it was interesting to note that big data was now located on the downslope from the “Peak of Inflated Expectations,” while the … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data Analytics | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Top 10 Programming Languages 2015

Posted on July 23, 2015 by GilPress

Note: Left column shows 2015 ranking; right column shows 2014 ranking. Source: IEEE Spectrum The big five—Java, C, C++, Python, and C#—remain on top, with their ranking undisturbed, but C has edged to within a whisper of knocking Java off … Continue reading →

Posted in Misc | Tagged | Leave a comment

John Markoff on automation, jobs, Deep Learning and AI limitations

Posted on July 20, 2015 by GilPress

My sense, after spending two or three years working on this, is that it’s a much more nuanced situation than the alarmists seem to believe. Brynjolfsson and McAfee, and Martin Ford, and Jaron Lanier have all written about the rapid … Continue reading →

Posted in AI, deep learning, Machine Learning | Leave a comment

Why Humans Will Forever Rule Over the Machines

Posted on July 20, 2015 by GilPress

Everywhere you turn nowadays, you hear about the imminent triumph of intelligent machines over humans. They will take our jobs, they will make their own decisions, they will be even more intelligent than humans, they pose a threat to humanity … Continue reading →

Posted in Misc | Leave a comment

Hype Curve of (Hardware) Neural Networks

Posted on July 16, 2015 by GilPress

2013: Qualcomm has presented their Zeroth processor for brain-inspired computing. 2012: Google X has been working on implementing the largest Deep Neural Network to date on a 16,000-node server. 2012: Microsoft Research is applying neural networks to general-purpose (approximate) computing … Continue reading →

Posted in AI | Leave a comment

Text Analytics: Inaugural Speeches of All U.S. Presidents (Infographic)

Posted on July 14, 2015 by GilPress
Posted in Infographics | Leave a comment

The CDO Interview: Digital Transformation at CVS Health

Posted on July 13, 2015 by GilPress

CVS Health has recently opened a new Digital Innovation Lab in Boston. Enabling digital access to healthcare and related services anytime and anywhere is a key component in the company’s transformation into a multi-faceted healthcare provider. CVS also announced plans to expand its … Continue reading →

Posted in Digitization | Tagged , , | Leave a comment