Can the Wizard Cast His Spell Again?
The book industry has to be holding their breath on the latest Harry Potter installment, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, that was released recently. CBS News brought this subject to our attention in their article, “Can a middle-aged “Harry Potter” revive the book industry?” Given that past Harry Potter releases have been credited with lifting…
Read MoreNatural Language Processing Learning Opportunity
Natural language processing (NLP) was once on the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) as a research topic with low accuracy. Now it is rapidly becoming a requirement for mainstream consumer and enterprise applications. Learn more about the basics of speech recognition, semantic analysis for text analysis, and recent advances in natural language generation in a free webinar…
Read MoreParsey What?
Google has been promoting natural language understanding with the open-sourcing of SyntaxNet, a neural network framework, and Parsey McParseface. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Google Promotes Natural Language Understanding with Open Source Projects.” Parsey McParseface is more than just a cute moniker; it is built on machine learning algorithms that learn…
Read MoreNew Ways to Collaborate
Kristen Ratan and Adam Hyde have launched the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to evolve how scholarship is created, produced and reported. This interesting information came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Can You Coko? An Interview with Kristen Ratan of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation.” The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), also known as Coko,…
Read MoreBlack and White
After testing a new color for its search result links, Google has settled on black. This interesting information came to us from Mashable in their article, “Why Internet links are blue, and what Google’s ‘black’ experiment means.” The search guru is experimenting with black links in search results in lieu of the more traditional blue and…
Read MoreThe Power of Pokemon Go
It has been years since I played a video game, unless you count Trivia Crack or Words With Friends on my smart phone. So when I first heard about the release of Pokemon Go, it went right on by as information I did not need to retain. Then my friends start posting photos of where…
Read MoreOntology Mapping
Programmers are used to solving problems in code. So if they are not used to ontology, it is easy to understand how much of a challenge it could be to them. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “The Knowledge Representation Corner: Procedural vs. Declarative.” Ontologies on the semantic web are by nature decentralized.…
Read MoreDigital Hub Attracts International Start-ups
Many companies are viewing Ireland as a starting point for accessing Europe. Just recently five new tech companies representing Belgium, Finland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States have joined the Digital Hub tech cluster in Dublin’s Liberties district. This interesting news came from the Silicon Republic in their article, “5 overseas start-ups select…
Read MoreVoila! It’s Magic
A combination of advancements in cognitive computing, graph databases, visualizations, and data discovery have resulted in an amazing reduction in the delivery time of analytics results. Visual querying uses interactive visualizations that enable users to look at and select the relevant data for questions, which allows the underlying systems to write the code necessary to perform…
Read MoreMaking the Most of Your DAM System
Content is valuable. More and more content is digital-based and protecting it while providing quick access is the challenge. Martech Advisor brought this information to us in their article, “Managing Digital Assets Successfully: Four Essential Steps.” There are digital assets management (DAM) programs available to help with storage, indexing and findability. However, surveys show that only about…
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