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Director for Program Strategy Needed
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreLondon Seminar Focuses on Collaboration
A new educational opportunity is available from the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) titled, “The Power of Partnership and Collaboration in the Publishing Industry.” It is being held in London, UK on July 12, 2018. This all day seminar will explore real examples of the strategic partnerships and innovative collaborations being forged…
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Data Technologies and Knowledge Lakes
An interesting learning opportunity from Gigaom in their webinar, “Combining Data Technologies to Create Knowledge Lakes, scheduled for July 10, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. (CDT). The number of innovative products and technologies in the analytics world is massive and continues to grow. Unfortunately, so is the effort and expertise required to use them together effectively. There is…
Read MoreWatson Technology and Financial Risks
IBM’s Watson is taking on the financial world to improve risk management. Forbes brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “IBM’s Watson Takes On Risk And Regulation In Finance.” This new initiative has several components beginning with the financial risks that are associated with portfolios. The next piece is about operational risks, which includes…
Read MoreGaining Value from Data
Big data is no longer new news. It is has made it to the mainstream and businesses are reporting tangible results. But has the full potential of big data been reached? DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Big Data, Make Room for Precision Data.” A recent survey of executives in various industries reported…
Read MoreIoT Technology Partnership
In the world of mergers and collaborations, the recent partnership between Ontology, a high-performance public blockchain project and Chains of Things (COT) is interesting at the very least. It is the first time Ontology has partnered with another technology company, for one. Under the partnership, Ontology and COT will together build a platform incorporating COT’s…
Read MoreMachine and Deep Learning Increase Adoption
Recently Google released its next generation of on-device computer vision networks – MobileNewtV2. Google is claiming a substantially faster process for the same accuracy across the entire latency spectrum. HPC Wire brought this news to our attention in their article, “Google Releases Improved Neural Networks for Vision Recognition.” Various Google-developed machine learning and deep learning tools…
Read MoreBig Media Merger Leaves Many Winners
AT&T closed its merger with Time Warner this past week. They completed the $85 billion deal ahead of its June 20 deadline. So what does this mean? Who is the big winner in this mess? The Washington Post brought us this news in their article, “It’s official: AT&T-Time Warner is a done deal.” AT&T is mostly…
Read MoreMachine Learning Working to Improve Data Quality
Data quality has always been important and that continues to be fact. However, because business data requires thorough cleansing and preparation to be used as input to any analytics or business intelligence system, it might be even more important than ever. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The Impact of Data…
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