Call for Papers for NFAIS Open Access Conference

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is calling for presenters for their annual Open Access event on October 1-2, 2018 in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Interested in presenting at this event? Call for presentations is open until July 31, 2018. Open Access continues to offer transformative change in traditional scholarly research that is…

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Webinar Addresses AI in the Global Educational Industry

Artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling a new data-driven approach to the design and delivery of instruction. Cloud-based AI tools automatically collect and analyze data from learners, making them analytics tools as much as learning tools. In education, machine-learning algorithms applied to learner data accelerate improvements in system performance. Teachers and administrators can use the resulting…

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The Challenges With AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to fill the headlines each and every day. New advances, new applications and new ways for AI to change and improve our lives. This all powerful technology with seemingly endless possibilities actually does have some restrictions and limitations. DATAVERSITY brought this news to our attention in their article, “Seven Things Artificial…

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Natural Language Processing to the Rescue

IHS Markit has taken the step into natural language processing (NLP) to improve the content of its event catalogs across all of the vendor’s vertical offerings. Markets Media brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “IHS Markit Turns to Natural Language Processing.” They plan to use the artificial intelligence (AI) discipline to take…

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Digital Workplace Conference

The world is becoming more and more digital-based and the workplace is no different. Here is an educational learning opportunity that was brought to our attention that can help anyone involved in corporate culture, employee engagement, and digital workplace initiatives. Digital Workplace Experience is being held June 18-20, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. This conference is a…

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Managing the Data Management

Data management bring with it a certain level of struggle that typically only those working in IT understand. Between limited resources and changing and often outdated infrastructures, protocols, regulations, and demanding clients – there is no seemingly no end to the workload and hurdles. This interesting topic came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “The…

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Leading in a Crisis

We speak frequently about data hacks, cyber attacks and breaches. Most of the content is about how to protect your organizations data and how to retrieve/restore after the fact. What we speak about much less frequently is the communication side of a data breach situation. Outsell brought this topic to our attention in their article,…

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