Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
AI in the Environment
Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in a variety of technological and everyday applications. It is being utilized for a wide range of activities in healthcare, finance, city planning, and security. Everyday consumers unknowingly use or benefit from AI on their way to work, communicating online with friends, searching on the web, and making online purchases. DATAVERSITY brought this…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence and the Retail Experience
Remember when the Internet was new and things like chat windows were considered advanced? Now cars can drive themselves, watches can track calories, and artificial intelligence (AI) can predict potential health risks and consumer behavior. YourStory.com brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “The impact of Artificial Intelligence on digital marketing.” AI, for…
Read MoreThe Future of Libraries
There has been much speculation over the past few decades as technology evolves and reality-changing technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and well, e-readers, have found their place in life and libraries. Many believe the value of libraries have been lost on a new generation that wants the information they need at their fingertips instantaneously…
Read MoreInteroperability in Platforms
One-stop shopping seems to be the theme of this latest move. Four of the biggest technology companies are banding together to make it easier for users to download and transfer their data between services. This interesting news came to us from Engadget in their article, “Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers.” Recently,…
Read MoreCall for Papers for NFAIS Open Access Conference
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is calling for presenters for their annual Open Access event on October 1-2, 2018 in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Interested in presenting at this event? Call for presentations is open until July 31, 2018. Open Access continues to offer transformative change in traditional scholarly research that is…
Read MoreEDW Conference Call for Presentations
Enterprise Data World is looking for presenters at the March 17-22, 2019 23rd Annual Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW) in Boston. You can share your skills and knowledge with over 1,000 attending data professionals from around the world. The EDW conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world. Join hundreds of data professionals from around the…
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 MoreNatural 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…
Read MoreDeep 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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