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Educational Opportunity This Week
“Artificial General Intelligence – When Can I Get It?” is the name of the webinar scheduled for Thursday, February 9th at 2:00 p.m. EST and it is free to all attendees. This educational opportunity is sponsored by Smart Data and it will present an overview of approaches to artificial general intelligence (AGI), examples of promising research…
Read MoreNew Acquisition, Greater Access
Elsevier has announced their acquisition of Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services. What does this mean for users? PR Newswire brought this interesting tidbit to our attention in their article, “Elsevier Acquires Leading ‘Altmetrics’ Provider Plum Analytics.” The acquisition will enable Elsevier to significantly expand access to Plum Analytics’ altmetrics to more researchers and more institutions. Plum…
Read MoreIndustry Giants Are Going All In On Graphic Databases
Graph databases are no longer the new guy on the block. They continue to move into mainstream enterprise operations and some big name vendors are making their mark. This interesting news came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Enterprises Move to Graph Databases.” Oracle and Teradata are both examples of major companies that have implemented…
Read MoreImproving the Semantic Search
Scientific papers just got a boost. Semantic Scholar is a search engine that reads the literature on its own, picking out topics and influences, ranking citations, and making it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for. TechCrunch brought this news to us in their article, “Scientists gain a versatile, modern search engine with the AI-powered Semantic…
Read MorePredicting Behavior
We have all experienced it. You are browsing a retail website but you don’t purchase anything. Later, the same day or after a week, you are on Facebook or another non-retail website and the ads that pop up in your feed or on the side are the exact items you were pondering to purchase. No,…
Read MoreEducational Webinar on Semantic Web Technology
CIMdata, Inc. is offering a free educational webinar titled, “Why Connected Intelligent Products Need Semantic Web Technology.” The webinar will take place on February 9, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EST). PR.com brought this news to our attention in their article, “CIMdata to Host Free Webinar on Why Connected Intelligent Products Need Semantic Web Technology.” The development…
Read MoreCognitive Computing in Daily Life
Cognitive computing is slowly becoming part of mainstream business culture since IBM’s introduction to Watson in 2011. The computing system built to compete against humans on the popular game show, Jeopardy! inspired many companies to begin research and ultimately investments into the technology. DATAVERSITY brought this news to our attention in their article, “Cognitive Computing: The…
Read MoreOntologies and the Semantic Web
Ontology is one of the key components of the semantic webs. Because it contains the core knowledge for an effective search, it requires carefully-collected knowledge which is domain-sensitive. 7th Space Interactive brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Ontology construction and application in practice case study of health tourism in Thailand.” The METHONTOLOGY approach is…
Read MoreSearching with Semantic Technology
We humans by nature don’t like long lists of things. Our brains get easily overwhelmed and, as cognitive misers, we prefer fewer options, shorter sentences and paragraphs, etc. Psychological research shows that humans can only parse seven plus or minus two things at a time—words in a sentence, sentences in a paragraph, menu items, etc. This…
Read MoreSmarter Machines
I know, with a title like that the inner sci-fi geek in you just went, “whaaat?” Granted, artificial intelligence (AI) devices may be best known from futuristic novels or or blockbuster movies, but there are some really cool things happening with those technologies today. Government Technology brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Tech Giants…
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