Posts Tagged ‘Digital’
Helpful Technology
With the appearance of technologies like Siri, Alexa, and other digital assistants, more natural language conversations are taking place between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). This digital revolution is in the middle of our everyday interactions, at home and at work. This transformation is aided by Natural language processing (NLP) and semantic search. CMS Wire…
Read MoreFlorida State University is New Hub for Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. Florida State University (FSU) Libraries will be playing a key role in this as the state of Florida’s service hub for the DPLA. Florida State University News brought this information to our attention…
Read MoreTechnology and Publishing
Technology has impacted how the casual reader consumes information, whether that be news or fiction. This is not new news. However, how exactly has technology changed how the publishing industry approaches their work? This interesting topic came to us from The New York Times in their article, “How Technology Is (and Isn’t) Changing Our Reading Habits.”…
Read MoreData Analytics’ Value Spans Industries
Whichever industry you work in, or whatever your interests, you will almost certainly heard about how data is changing the face of our world. It might be helping to cure a disease, boost a company’s revenue, make a building more efficient or direct sustaining agriculture and it’s ability to meet the needs of a growing population.…
Read MoreData Scientists and Machine Learning Roles
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are the golden children in technology for the coming years. What role are data scientists playing in this? This interesting topic came to our attention from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Data Scientists and Machine Learning Algorithms for the Data-Driven World.” Are data scientists using their skills to develop better machine learning…
Read MoreData Protection
One of the largest data breach of over 143 million personal records by Equifax has many wondering when and how it will ever end. Forbes brought this topic to our attention in their article, “The Equifax Breach And The Case For Digital Identity.” With the volume of cyber crimes and data breaches, it makes you…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence is Changing Lifestyles
File sharing in the music world has a long and checkered past. Now musicians are looking to digital technology in a bid to recoup money they believe is theirs. This information came to us from The Globe and Mail in their article, “AI and data are music to recording industry’s ears for recouping song royalties.” SOCAN…
Read MoreScience Journal Increases Access
A new authoritative journal has joined the family of open access titles. Launched in 1884 and 1912, respectively, University of Hamburg’s journal Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut and Entomologische Mitteilungen are now resurrected under the name of Evolutionary Systematics. KnowledgeSpeak brought this news to our attention in their article, “Evolutionary Systematics joins Pensoft’s OA portfolio.” Evolutionary Systematics is…
Read MoreHuman Technology in 2018
Being the first of the year, there are many professionals sharing their views and opinions on what 2018 has in store for the world of technology. This particular one is looking at the relationship between tech and human touch and how it has changed the nature of marketing and what the next steps are likely…
Read MoreDigging Around in the Data of the Past
Data mining is the process of finding anomalies, patterns and correlations within large data sets to predict outcomes. Using a broad range of techniques, this information can be used in a variety of processes. Applying data mining techniques to history often uncovers interesting data and trends in the archives. IT Technology Review brought this very…
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