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

Home Monitoring mHealth Wearable Devices 2013-2019

Posted on October 16, 2014 by GilPress

ABI Research: Over the next 5 years, a new generation of elderly home care services will drive wearable device shipments to more than 44 million in 2019 up from just 6 million in 2013. In 2014 alone, shipments of wearable … Continue reading →

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Most companies analyze a mere 12% of their data (Infographic)

Posted on October 15, 2014 by GilPress

Source: Platfora

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Gartner on Top Trends for 2015 and Beyond

Posted on October 10, 2014 by GilPress

On the occasion of its sold-out Symposium/ITxpo this week, Gartner revealed its predictions for top technology trends, the impact of technology on businesses and consumers, and the continuing evolution of the IT organization and the role of the CIO. Here is my … Continue reading →

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Oren Etzioni on Building Intelligent Machines

Posted on September 30, 2014 by GilPress

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_6AZ8slivc?rel=0] “There are more things in AI than classification… the entire paradigm of classification, which has fueled machine learning and data mining, is very limited… What we need is a process that is structured, multi-layered, knowledge-intensive, much more like … Continue reading →

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The New Apple Wristop Computer: Not Designed for the Internet of Things

Posted on September 27, 2014 by GilPress

MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte observed at a recent TED event that “I look today at some of the work being done around the Internet of Things and it’s kind of tragically pathetic.” The “tragically pathetic” label has been … Continue reading →

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What’s the Big Data? 12 Definitions

Posted on September 8, 2014 by GilPress

Last week I got an email from UC Berkeley’s Master of Information and Data Science program, asking me to respond to a survey of data science thought leaders, asking the question “What is big data”? I was especially delighted to … Continue reading →

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The nature of data (Infographic)

Posted on September 5, 2014 by GilPress

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The Internet of Things: Why now and how big?

Posted on September 1, 2014 by GilPress

Now that it has been established that the Internet of Things is the most hyped “emerging technology” today, and that the term—and the associated technologies—is far from being new, the only question to be answered is Why the sudden surge … Continue reading →

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Josh Wills on Machine Learning in a Business Setting

Posted on August 5, 2014 by GilPress

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgfRdDjLxe0?rel=0] Academic machine learning is all about optimization. Machine learning in a business setting is all about understanding: “My focus is always on how do I understand what the system is doing, come up with new hypotheses about this … Continue reading →