Peer Review Week 2021

What time is it? It’s Peer Review Week! This interesting news came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Guest Post — The Votes Are In! Announcing This Year’s Peer Review Week Theme.” Peer Review Week is September 20-24. This yearly global event celebrates the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research…

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Intelligent Clouds and Storage

Smart storage. Not an entirely new concept, but these days it is doing more than just storing data. Today’s smartest storage starts with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. IT Pro Today brought this topic to our attention in their article, “How Intelligent Storage Is Bringing More Value to Organizations.” Intelligent storage is a storage system or…

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AI at Work

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning continue to show their potential in various industries and applications. Recently they have proven up to the challenge of transforming and disrupting healthcare, but there are significant challenges to the adoption of these technologies. MedTech DIVE brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “FDA AI-machine learning strategy remains work in progress.” Among those challenges…

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Data Guardians

When you hear stewardship you may think of financial resources. However, data stewardship is just as important for an organization when you acknowledge that data is a valuable resource. This interesting topic came to our attention from Out-Law in their blog post, “Responsible data stewardship ‘could unlock economic and social value’.” The value of data…

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Emerging Tech and Digital

Digital transformation is not unique to one type of business or industry. Healthcare, legal, science and finance are experiencing the change and evolution that comes with emerging technologies. This interesting information came to us from TDWI in their article, “CFOs Look to Automation and Data Analytics for Digital Transformation, Survey Finds.” Just like those other…

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The Depth of Data Governance

Business leaders need to understand the importance of harnessing digital transformation to encourage growth, accelerate time to market and foster innovation. It has never been more vital to not only endure against current challenges and intensifying competition, but to be equipped to forge ahead and succeed. What is stopping or slowing them down? CDO Trends…

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Open Access and the Pandemic

The public cloud has exponentially grown over the past several years. The acceleration of open source adoption has followed suit. Tech Radar brought this subject to our attention in their article, “Predictions for open source and cloud over the months ahead.” The positive outcome of this growth is that businesses have been freed from their ties to proprietary software…

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Unreasonable

Humans throughout history have been the entity that had the ability to reason abstractly about events as they unfold. No matter how instinctive animals can be, human intelligence has always had the super powers of reasoning. This interesting information came to us from MIT News in their article, “Toward a machine learning model that can…

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AI Gains New Traction in the Home

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the home is not new. With an increasing amount of useful data, predictive algorithms, inference engines and deep learning networks will help smart home technology to contextualize its surroundings. Facial and voice recognition could immediately recognize various members of the household and provide informed responses to open-ended questions, as well as…

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Protecting Data with AI

Digital transformation was well underway before the pandemic hit in early 2020. Healthcare was certainly the most affected, but there were high demands for growth in emerging technology while safeguarding the data in the world of cybercrime. Those are a lot of plates to be juggling at once. Nextgov brought this topic to us in…

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