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

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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

Posted on July 14, 2015 by GilPress
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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 →

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The Price Declines Behind the Explosion of Data

Posted on July 8, 2015 by GilPress

Source: BloombergBusiness

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How Much Will You Pay to Protect Your Data?

Posted on July 6, 2015 by GilPress

Source: Harvard Business Review See also: ‘We The People Have A Lot Of Work To Do’ Says Schneier In A Must-Read Book On Security And Privacy

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Mobile is Eating the World (Slideshare)

Posted on June 26, 2015 by GilPress

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Joi Ito on Open Hardware and Why Bio is the New Digital

Posted on June 25, 2015 by GilPress

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Big Data Jobs: Salaries and Top Industries

Posted on June 25, 2015 by GilPress

Source: Where Big Data Jobs Are In 2015 – Midyear Update

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