Take a closer look at some of the interesting new ways that data is transforming the world around us. We’re talking driverless cars, space telescopes, and blockbuster hits, as well as the questions about ethics surrounding Big Data, AI, and Machine Learning.
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JUNE 5, 2023 by Navita Sood
As organizations ramp up their efforts to be truly data-driven, the rate at which they collect data continues to grow. However, many have struggled to gain actionable insights from this data due to the volume and variability they’re forced to contend with, which has proven difficult to manage using existing data warehouses and data lake architectures....
MARCH 31, 2023 by Ganesh Hegde
After years of infighting and inaction, the U.S. Congress finally has pulled itself together to produce three major pieces of legislation bolstering IT, data, and infrastructure that have either passed—or will pass—at the federal level within a span of 12 months. This is fantastic news for the entire nation, but it is especially important for enterprise data and analytics leaders...
FEBRUARY 14, 2023 by Chris J. Preimesberger
New and inventive uses of AI/ML in online apps and services, 5G connectivity, 3D graphics, automation, data privacy and protection, and the coming metaverse are all changing everything rapidly. There are lots of theories about what digital life will look like 10 to 50 years from now, and we'll examine some of the more intriguing ones....
FEBRUARY 1, 2023 by Chris J. Preimesberger
This time window encompasses when the internet was taking hold in 1993, through when pre-cloud ASPs were coming to the fore in 1998, to the end of Web 2.0 in 2019....
JANUARY 11, 2023 by Chris J. Preimesberger
Interviews with early creators of the internet and WWW about the foundational key technology of the great information highway.…
DECEMBER 8, 2022 by Pedro Pereira
The Internet of Things (IoT) has immense transformational potential. Just about any company can identify opportunities for IoT-driven changes across its operations. The trick is to decide where to begin....…
NOVEMBER 30, 2022 by Pedro Pereira
The Internet of Things (IoT) has immense transformational potential. Just about any company can identify opportunities for IoT-driven changes across its operations. The trick is to decide where to begin....…
NOVEMBER 16, 2022 by Pedro Pereira
The first thing to know about the Internet of Things (IoT) is this: It doesn’t just connect machines and devices; it connects them with people. Currently, IoT networks offer varying levels of automation. But in most cases, people are at the receiving end of the data collected by IoT devices...…
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 by Rob Carey
In the digital age, organizations put a lot of effort into generating, capturing, and organizing data. After all, any meaningful outcome we expect from automation, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and any other advanced technology boils down to how well we can manage data…
JULY 12, 2022 by Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D
At a distance of a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is pushing the edge of data transfer capabilities. The observatory launched Dec. 25 2021 on a mission to look at the early universe, at exoplanets, and at other objects of celestial interest...
MAY 4, 2022 by Chris Royles
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a focus for research for decades, but has only recently become truly viable. The availability and maturity of automated data collection and analysis systems is making it possible for businesses to implement AI across their entire operations to boost efficiency and agility…
APRIL 13, 2022 by Chris Royles
The term “AI-first” has received its share of attention lately, especially in the boardroom where strategies to gain a competitive advantage are always welcome. But before a company embarks on an AI-first strategy, it pays to understand what it is and how it will transform the organization…
MARCH 30, 2022 by Santiago Giraldo
Sometimes it takes a billion-dollar mistake to bring the murkier side of data ethics into sharp focus.
Equifax found this out to their own cost in 2017 when they failed to protect the data of almost 150 million users globally. The catastrophic breach was bad enough on its own — but Equifax waited three months to go public with the news…