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Semantic Search Tool Launched Specifically for COVID-19
In perfect timing, Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) team recently released a new tool to help researchers sift through the many coronavirus papers, journals and articles. This interesting news was brought to our attention by The Next Web in their article, “Google’s new AI-powered search tool helps researchers with coronavirus queries.” The COVID-19 research explorer tool is a semantic search…
Read MoreFree Webinar Tomorrow
Access Innovations is offering a free webinar series on semantic technology, moderated by Bill Kasdorf. The first webinar is the series is scheduled for tomorrow – Thursday, May 7th at 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT. This first webinar is titled, “Why Keywords Don’t Cut It: How structured semantics get far better results in both discovery and content…
Read MoreAI Technology and Bias Has Potential for Harm
The future of artificial intelligence (AI) has always been depicted as one that looked easy in every aspect of life—from health, to jobs, to how we connect. But this utopia is starting to disappear as we see how AI can also be used to discriminate, profile, and cause other harms. Are there any legal frameworks…
Read MoreBI and Analytics In Your Strategy
Data analytics and business intelligence tools are evolving at a rapid pace. However, is the average business stakeholder aware of the significant impact data analytics can have on increasing efficiency, reducing costs and improving decision-making skills for companies? Probably not. Digital Insurance brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “3 top ways data…
Read MoreSoftware to Track the Coronavirus
Everyone is working to develop technologies that can help in the identification and elimination of the coronavirus. This is done in a variety of ways, but tracking the virus seems to be where the energy is currently focused. This particular News came to our attention from CNBC in their article, “Apple and Google release test…
Read MoreImproving the Database Relationship
Graph analytics is an emerging form of data analysis that works particularly well with complex relationships. It involves moving data points and relationships between data points into a graph format and codes queries more efficiently, and it can output results in an easy-to-digest visual format. Tech Republic brought this to our attention in their article, “How…
Read MoreTechnology Being Taxed by Virus
COVID-19 is doing more than covering the headlines, it has changed how the majority of us live and work, and will for the foreseeable future. In the world of technology, it is creating a challenge due to the volume of data and urgency for results. This could be where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning…
Read MoreAI’s Role in Fighting the Pandemic
Everyone is coming together to collaborate under the common goal of fighting the spread of COVID-19, even the emerging technology programs across the federal government. Federal News Network brought this information to our attention in their article, “Emerging tech offices come together on long-term plan to combat coronavirus.” Some agencies have spent a considerable amount of time fielding…
Read MoreThe Long-Term Impact of Social Distancing
Large gatherings are on the minds of most scientific and scholarly societies as we navigate public safety in the midst of a pandemic. Can they gather together? Should they? This interesting and timely topic came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Scientific and Scholarly Meetings in the Time of Pandemic.” Conference organizers with…
Read MorePandemic Creates New Challenges Going Forward
Months into this pandemic and weeks into working from home for a majority of the country – wait, just weeks? I know it feels like forever since we sat down at a coffee shop with a friend or had anything but a virtual happy hour after work with our colleagues, but it has indeed only…
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