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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

IBM, Watson, and Cognitive Computing

Reacting to 10 quarters in a row of declining revenues and the abandonment of IBM’s profit target for 2015, UBS’s Steve Milunovich asked on the Q3 earnings call about IBM’s appeal to Silicon Valley startups. Giving voice to the rising … Continue reading

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Jeopardy champion Jennings on how a computer beat him at his own game (Video)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2M-SeKey4o?rel=0] Jennings in Slate: …there’s no shame in losing to silicon, I thought to myself as I greeted the (suddenly friendlier) team of IBM engineers after the match. After all, I don’t have 2,880 processor cores and 15 terabytes … Continue reading

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Recruiting Data Scientists to Mine the Data Explosion

  Wes Hunt, Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. on recruiting data scientists: Finding talent is my largest challenge. Someone who understands our business, who has quantitative skills, who has the technical skills to create the models, … Continue reading

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Doug Cutting on Hadoop, October 2014 (Video)

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Home Monitoring mHealth Wearable Devices 2013-2019

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)

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Gartner on Top Trends for 2015 and Beyond

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

[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

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

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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