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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

What Chief Data Officers Do (Infographic)

Posted on August 9, 2014 by GilPress

 

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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 →

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What Happens on the Web in 60 Seconds (Infographic)

Posted on July 18, 2014 by GilPress

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What is the Internet of Things? (Infographic)

Posted on July 17, 2014 by GilPress
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The Landscape of the Internet of Things

Posted on July 16, 2014 by GilPress

  Source: Entrepreneur and Media Lab researcher David Rose talks ‘enchanted objects’ The book on Amazon: Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things

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A Very Short History Of The Internet Of Things

Posted on June 22, 2014 by GilPress

There have been visions of smart, communicating objects even before the global computer network was launched forty-five years ago. As the Internet has grown to link all signs of intelligence (i.e., software) around the world, a number of other terms … Continue reading →

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Neil Gershenfeld on Turning Data into Things and Things into Data (Video)

Posted on June 8, 2014 by GilPress

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RDrSKenGo] Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, at the 2014 Solid Conference: Analog telephone calls degraded with distance; digitizing communications allowed errors to be detected and corrected, leading to the Internet. Analog computations degraded with … Continue reading →

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Here Comes the Next Bubble: #IoT (Video)

Posted on June 6, 2014 by GilPress

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2dvxSKEGU] Bubblino is a Twitter-monitoring, bubble-blowing Arduino-bot. He watches twitter for a chosen keyword and every time he finds a new mention then he blows bubbles.

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The Web at 25: The Value of Open

Posted on March 12, 2014 by GilPress

25 years ago today (March 12, 1989), Tim Berners-Lee circulated a proposal for “Mesh” (later to be known as the World Wide Web) to his management at CERN. 45 years ago this year (October 29, 1969), the first ARPANET (later to be known as … Continue reading →

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The Web at 25: Tim Berners-Lee on the Web of Data

Posted on March 11, 2014 by GilPress

In 2009, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Web, Jason Rubin and I talked to Tim Berners-Lee about his invention and its future, the Semantic Web, which he described as “the Web of data.” Twenty years on, … Continue reading →

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