Teaching Computers

One company is working with software that can identify historical figures from centuries before the word artificial intelligence was even in our vocabulary. This interesting information came to us from Digital Trends in their article, “New beta software automatically tags and captions historic images.” Project Gado first began as a way to develop new technology for quickly…

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Graph Analytics Event

Mark your calendars and add this conference to your “must attend” list for 2017. At Graphorum you will learn how property and semantic graphs work individually and together to save you money and time. Graphorum is the perfect place to connect with chief scientists, software engineers, data scientists, data architects, and technology strategists. This conference…

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The Original Source

Over the centuries, library services and collections have been mediated by humans, and therefore the content has been tailored to and by people who used libraries and the space they provide. I know you are wondering where I am going with this. Hang in there with me. Libraries are about more than just the content they…

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Search Games

When I was a kid I used to love playing Mad Libs. My friends and I would work tirelessly to come up with the funniest nonsensical stories. While not quite as cognitive as Mad Libs, but still entertaining, are the various games going around social media involving predictive text. One game is a weird version…

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The Future of Cognitive Computing

Cognitive computing has been the focus for the past few years and the entire data industry is focused on what the future holds for this technology. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “How We Will Harvest Cognition in 2017.” Cognitive computing’s impact in and on our lives will continue over the coming years,…

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Copyright Process Review

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) voiced their approval of the House Judiciary Committee’s first policy proposal regarding the review of the Copyright Act. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) brought this news to our attention in their article, “AAP Welcomes House Judiciary Committee’s First Policy Proposal on Copyright Review.” AAP and its members believe that modernizing…

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New Science Journal Focuses on Robotics

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently debuted a new journal. Science Robotics has been launched to cover the most important advances in robots and their applications. As the newest journal to join the Science family of journals and it is now open to accept submissions. The journal’s goals have been identified as to select the most groundbreaking…

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Semantic Intelligence

We talk a lot of about semantic technology and machine learning here. But what do they mean exactly? In linguistics, meaning has two distinct branches or categories: semantic meaning and pragmatic meaning. Semantics belongs to the first category and helps us understand the meaning of words by their relationship to other words. Quora brought this interesting information to our…

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