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Drama in Taxonomy Naming Conventions
In the world of taxonomy, names are very important. This interesting and slightly humorous information came to our attention from the Ottawa Citizen in their article, “‘These British hosers’: Name ‘vandals’ accused of giving taxonomy a bad name.” Due to some vandalism, biologists are up in arms about the redundancy in species names. Considering the rate…
Read MoreThe Same Paper vs. Digital Debate
The Pew Research Center conducted a recent poll on the reading habits of Americans and their preferred vehicles. The results might surprise you. The Digital Reader brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “One in Five Americans Have Listened to an Audiobook, One in Four Have Read an eBook.” Let’s start with…
Read MoreAccess Innovations to hold DHUGE 2018 at AAAS Headquarters
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has invited Access Innovations to hold the second Data Harmony Users Group East (DHUGE) meeting at their Washington, DC headquarters. AAAS hopes to highlight the synergy between the two organizations and showcase how this collaboration is furthering the mission of AAAS. DHUGE 2018 will take place…
Read MoreIoT and Mobile Technology
Despite the success and proliferation of the technology known as Internet of Things (IoT), mobile providers are taking a different approach to the technology. Network World brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “What the big four U.S. mobile ISPs are doing with IoT.” IoT has become a phenomenon, which means that…
Read MoreSummer Learning Opportunities from AAP
There are a couple of educational opportunities in the works over the next month from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) that might pique the interest of our followers. A panel titled, State of the Industry: Publishing and Copyright Policy, is scheduled for Wednesday, May 30th at 10:15 – 11:00 a.m. (EST) in the BookExpo…
Read MoreVoice Recognition and Activation Continues to Evolve
IBM has launched Watson Assistant, a new service aimed at companies looking to build voice-activated virtual assistants for their own products. This information came to us from The Verge in their article, “IBM’s Watson Assistant lets any company build Alexa-like voice interfaces.” Integrating voice-activated virtual assistants in environments like customized hotel rooms and even cars is…
Read MorePlaying Word Games with AI
You have heard of audio books that talk to you, but what about talking to the books? This interesting information came to us from Engadget in their article, “Google AI experiment has you talking to books.” Everyone is reporting about how Google Research is using natural language processing in artificial intelligence (AI) on what it calls…
Read MoreIoT’s Role in the Future
The Internet of Things (IoT) technology has changed the way business and individuals live and work in their daily lives. And it doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “IoT Use Cases: Internet of Things Applications Evolve.” The IoT has impacted industrial operations, manufacturing units, healthcare centers,…
Read MoreModeling the Data
A data model is an abstract model that organizes elements of data and standardizes how they relate to one another and to properties of the real world entities. A data model explicitly determines the structure of data. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Detecting Data Models.” Common types of data models include flat hierarchical, network,…
Read MoreData Analytics for Healthcare
The American Heart Association and the Duke Clinical Research Institute has partnered to try out machine-learning techniques to find new ways to analyze data and drive scientific discoveries and treat cardiovascular diseases. Modern Healthcare brought this news to us in their article, “American Heart Association and Duke partner to accelerate machine learning and AI.” The two…
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