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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

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 →

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What Happens on the Web in 60 Seconds (Infographic)

Posted on July 18, 2014 by GilPress

Source: Qmee

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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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