The Fundamentals of Love

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and it has got us thinking about love and the origins of love. This interesting topic came to us from KQED in San Francisco in their article, “The Ontology of Love.” Love in all its ramifications is an encompassing human phenomenon. It is a challenging topic and shouldn’t surprise anyone that…

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Going Digital

Remember when digital scanners were the latest and greatest? Well, maybe they still are. State Tech magazine brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “How Digital Scanners Enabled a New Era of Document Management.” State and local governments have a lot in common. They collect and store a massive amount of records.…

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If You Liked That, You Might Like This

Semantic marketing is everywhere. Brands like Facebook, YouTube and others know our preferences and are able to provide us with personalized original content due to semantic marketing. It is transforming the way marketers understand and target their customers’ interests and allows them to deliver results that are custom, personalized and sometimes a little creepy. This interesting information…

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Machine Learning, Taxonomies and Career Placement

It is always interesting to see how technology, especially new technology, is being used by organizations. One of the more interesting ones is that LinkedIn is now using machine learning to determine skills of people. WebPro News brought this topic to us in their article, “How LinkedIn is Using Machine Learning to Determine Skills.” With…

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Humans and Digital Transformation

Technology is embedded in our lives. For many people, they’re literally connected from the time they wake up til the time they go to bed. The understanding of digital technologies like big data and analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality has really grown. Businesses began adopting these technologies as part of…

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New and Old Challenges

Semantic technology has been around for awhile, but is still finding its place among the technology world. Semantic technology uses formal semantics to give meaning to the disparate and raw data that surrounds us. Forbes brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “The Semantic Zoo – Smart Data Hubs, Knowledge Graphs and Data Catalogs.”…

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Data Transparency’s Value

In all the various occupations, engineers are at or near the top of the list of being data junkies. They are analytical by nature. That means they not only like data and analytics, they understand its intrinsic value. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “Data Transparency and Civil Engineers.”…

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AI University

More than 100 engineers from about a dozen big privately held companies that Google’s Alphabet invests in gathered at a three-day machine learning boot camp thrown by CapitalG. This interesting news came to us from CNBC in their article, “Inside the training camp where Google shares its A.I. secrets with companies Alphabet invested in.” CapitalG started the…

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Findability in the Digital World

Preserving data for future findability is at the core of a Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) responsibilities. In the world of state governments, this can sometimes be lost in the mire of red tape and funding. This interesting topic came to us from State Tech magazine in their article, “How State CIOs Should Preserve Digital Records.”…

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