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AI / Machine Learning
Rebooting AI: Deep learning, meet knowledge graphs
Gary Marcus, a prominent figure in AI, is on a mission to instill a breath…
What’s next for AI: Gary Marcus talks about the journey toward robust artificial intelligence
Gary Marcus is one of the more prominent, and controversial, figures in AI. Going beyond…
The state of AI in 2020: Biology and healthcare’s AI moment, ethics, predictions, and graph neural networks
Research and industry breakthroughs, ethics, and predictions. This is what AI looks like today, and…
The state of AI in 2020: Democratization, industrialization, and the way to artificial general intelligence
From fit for purpose development to pie in the sky research, this is what AI…
Hybrid AI through data, space, time, and industrial applications: Beyond Limits scores $113M Series C to scale up
Machine learning approaches to AI alone don’t cut it. Good old-fashioned AI alone does not…
Data / Analytics / Data Science
The state of open source databases in 2019: Multiple Databases, Clouds, and Licenses
An extensive survey shows the attitude of the market towards open source databases, drivers and…
The new New Relic: Past BI and the dashboard, toward AI and AIOps
When applications and data change, what should a platform built to monitor them do? It…
Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases
A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data…
Advancing human exploration: Is space the final frontier, and how can data and AI get us there?
Fifty years after the moon landing, it’s not just NASA working on what many consider…
Salesforce open sources research to advance state of the art in AI for common sense reasoning
Deep learning is great for many applications, but common sense reasoning is not one of…
Multi-cloud data catalogs the easy way, using metadata and machine learning by Waterline Data
Data governance is drudgery, but in the post-GDPR world, it’s beyond foundational. It’s essential. Waterline…
DataStax Enterprise Graph 6.0: what’s new, and what’s coming?
DataStax Enterprise just released version 6.0, a major upgrade. We take an insider tour with…
Here we go: The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 1, April 2018
Graph databases are the hottest thing around right now. Whether you are just getting started,…
Data.world: The importance of linking data and people
Notepads, graphs, data lakes, collaboration, and data manifestos. Data.world has an interesting blend of philosophy…
Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?
If the history of relational databases is any indication, what is going on in graph…
The Reskilling Revolution: Taking control of skills with Open Badges
In a rapidly shifting job market, being able to formalize skills is a requirement for…
From graph to the world: pioneering a database virtual machine
What are the options for querying graphs, and how do we go from that to…
Innovation
ScyllaDB achieves Cassandra feature parity, adds HTAP, cloud, and Kubernetes support
ScyllaDB, the open-source drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra, is growing up. Version 3.0 closes the…
Google can now search for datasets. First research, then the world?
Did you ever need data on a topic you wanted to research, and had a…
Zen and the art of data structures: From self-tuning to self-designing data systems
Designing data systems is something few people understand, and it’s very hard and costly. But…
GDPR in real life: Transparency, innovation, and adoption across borders and organizations
Part two: Auditing data on premise and in the cloud, spurring innovation in machine learning…
GDPR in real life: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt
Part one: Why are most organizations still not ready for GDPR? And what are the…
DataStax Enterprise Graph 6.0: what’s new, and what’s coming?
DataStax Enterprise just released version 6.0, a major upgrade. We take an insider tour with…
Other Topics
Mesosphere + DataStax + Confluent + Lightbend = Container 2.0… But is it complicated?
Last week Mesosphere announced a number of strategic partnerships that comprise a comprehensive ecosystem and…
An analyst’s life: from Gigaom and Big Data to VisionMobile and Developer Economics and..Big Developer Data
The last post in this blog, a year ago, was about Hadoop security. We had…
WSO2: Open Source Enterprise Application Integration in the Cloud
WSO2 is a notable Enterprise Application Integration & Cloud vendor. They are notable not just…
Data Modeling for APIs. Part 5: Modeling vs. Meta-Modeling
Recently i was involved the creation of a data model for a project in the…
The wrong strategy, the wrong way: cold-calling your way to marketing, technical and business failure
Do you think cold-calling still works? Trying to sell random stuff to random people on…
Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 3: Changes Going Forward and Analytics
In the 3rd and concluding part of this series of posts on Gigaom’s webinar on…