Seeking Accurate Information

In an effort to reduce the fake news surrounding the coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) is working with Google and other social media platforms to ensure that people get facts from a reliable source – WHO – first when they search for information about the recently emerged virus. This interesting topic came to us from Fox Business…

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Digital AI Art

Austin is known for its eclectic art and music scene, so it should be no surprise that this is the location of where artificial intelligence (AI) and art is being used collaboratively. This interesting information came to us from the Statesman in their article, “Art meets artificial intelligence: Austin artists explore new meaning in data.”…

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Data Governance and Ontology Development

TopQuadrant is a provider of data governance solutions using knowledge graph technologies. Recently, they released a flagship product, TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) 6.3, that delivers enhanced data governance capabilities and a new user experience for editing and viewing knowledge graphs. KM World brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Knowledge graph technology-based data…

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Intelligent Populations in Smart Cities

A smart city is a concept that uses technology to improve governance, planning, management, and livability of a city by gathering real-time data. There are more and more smart cities popping up over the United States and the world. This interesting topic came to us from Smart Cities World in their article, “Towards the smart…

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The Role of the Cloud

Cloud architecture refers to the various components such as databases, software capabilities, applications, etc., that are engineered to leverage the power of cloud resources to solve business problems. The rapid migration to the cloud has only accelerated as organizations of all sizes embrace the benefits of the cloud and adapt to the new security, performance, and…

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Text and Images

Venga has released another solution in its growing suite of products for natural language processing (NLP) data dollection. InVimage is a cloud-based solution for annotating text within images. This interesting news came to us from Slator in their article, “Data for Machine Learning Gets a New Lease on Language.” Understanding the text that appears on images…

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Data Governance in Cloud Computing

It is not news that data continues to grow and accumulate. However, 60% of all workloads will be hosted or born in the cloud by 2022. Cloud computing has offered a solution, but the risks are increasing. This interesting news came to us from Redmond Mag in their article, “Data Governance for the Cloud Era.” Enterprises…

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Technology in the Military

The Pentagon is looking into emerging technologies, such as 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), to use on base as well as on the battlefield. However, some are questioning their understanding of and intended applications of these new technologies. This interesting news came to us from GCN in their article, “DOD makes plans to…

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Path to Supported Scholarly Societies

There are many perceptions about scholarly societies; some are accurate and some- not so much. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “Scholarly Societies: The Importance of Community.” A recent article from the same source received push back when they broached the topic of open access. The main focus of the…

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Open Source of Today

Looking back at the recent decade and the dramatic changes there have been in the world of information technology, it is ironic to see which predictions came true and which came out of left field. IT World brought us this interesting news in their article, “How open source changed everything — again.” Open source is a…

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