Happy Father’s Day

We celebrated Father’s Day yesterday, so it felt appropriate to share an article written several years ago for this blog about the “father of library science” – Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan. As described in the Wikipedia article about him, Ranganathan “is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the…

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Natural Language Processing Acknowledged in Awards

The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) is one of Amazon’s ways of supporting external research that could potentially be integrated into the tech giant’s platform in the future. Recently the 49 projects chosen were announced. This interesting information came to us from Slator in their article, “Natural Language Processing and Neural Machine Translation Figure Prominently in Amazon…

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Semantic Technology and Climate Control

Helsinki climate experts presented an action plan to render the city carbon neutral by 2035 and they used semantic technology as part of their model. Markets Insider brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Helsinki Compiles Building Energy Data into Semantic 3D City ModelEnergy and Climate Atlas is a tool to reach climate…

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Search Technology is Changing

Since 1998, search algorithms have been updated as needed and gradually. Instead of moving forward with any one new innovation, companies like Google work to refine the features they already have. Forbes brought this interesting subject to our attention in their article, “How Machine Learning Is Reshaping Online Search.” These logical, progressive improvements aren’t likely to change,…

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Deep Learning in Customer Service

What is deep learning? The terms artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning are used often and sadly, often interchangeably. But they are not the same things. One way to understand the difference and their relationship to one another is to visualize them as concentric circles with AI — the idea that came first — the largest,…

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