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The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
Is technology the answer to life, the universe and everything? A brief account of human history. Technology and economics 101.…
AI / Machine Learning
The best programming language for data science and machine learning
Hint: There is no easy answer, and no consensus either. Arguing about which programming language…
Moving fast without breaking data: Governance for managing risk in machine learning and beyond
How do you resolve the tension between the need to build and deploy accurate machine…
Wolfram Research goes for Software 2.0, releases neural net repository
Wolfram, having been into AI before it was cool, now gets a piece of the…
AI-powered DevOps is how CA wants to reinvent software development and itself
How does non-deterministic software sound? Making data-driven software to help make data-driven software may seem…
Business analytics: The essentials of data-driven decision-making
Data shows that data-driven organizations perform better. But what does it take to get there?…
Human in the loop: Machine learning and AI for the people
HITL is a mix and match approach that may help make ML both more efficient…
Data / Analytics / Data Science
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…
Controversy, thy name is Europe: Open credit scores, data-driven counter-forensics, and the regulation debate
Europe’s biggest digital culture festival raises questions beyond the use of data. Europe’s SXSW: The…
Modernizing Hadoop: Reaching the plateau of productivity
What’s new in Hadoop, and how is vendor dynamics and strategy evolving? Hadoop is not…
Planet analytics 1.0: From the UN lab to the globe
The United Nations (UN) is developing initiatives that leverage data and analytics to measure and…
Conway’s Law and the future of healthcare data management: Genome, Blockchain, and GDPR
Maladies in healthcare data management are obvious, but what about solutions? From selling Genome data…
Healthcare’s $3 trillion question: Should the likes of Google and Facebook control this data?
How is data managed? Do users get to have consent over how their data is…
Innovation
World Wide Web Conference 2012: From technical to socio-technical
Extending the reach and scope of the Web I just returned from this year’s edition…
Tim Berners Lee Keynote in World Wide Web Conference 2012
Distributed, Collaborative Decision Making? Music to my ears – we should be doing more of that…
A report on the 2010 Extended Semantic Web Conference
This year’s edition of ESWC, which took place between May 30th and June 3rd in Crete,…
Semantic Web and CMS: a symbiotic relationship
How structured data and CMS can work with each other Working in a company that…