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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…
The state of AI in 2019: Breakthroughs in machine learning, natural language processing, games, and knowledge graphs
A tour de force on progress in AI, by some of the world’s leading experts…
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…
Getting your corporate data ready for prescriptive analytics: data quantity and quality in equal measures
Good news: there’s nothing special about getting your data ready for prescriptive analytics. Bad news:…
A guide for prescriptive analytics: The art and science of choosing and applying the right techniques
Prescriptive analytics is nothing short of automating your business. But there’s lots of hard work,…
Breaking up Facebook? Try data literacy, social engineering, personal knowledge graphs, and developer advocacy
Yes, Facebook is a data-driven monopoly. But the only real way to break it up…
A standard for storing big data? Apache Spark creators release open-source Delta Lake
From data lakes to data swamps and back again. Data reliability, as in transactional support,…
Google Cloud gives open-source data vendors a break. Will that save open source?
Google will give open-source data vendors that offer their software on Google Cloud a share…
Safety in data: Implementing data-driven road safety
Using data to improve road safety sounds like a good idea, but the devil is…
The new Cloudera-Hortonworks Hadoop: 100 percent open source, 50 percent boring
How do you bring Hadoop to the AI, hybrid, and multi cloud era, making it…
Nvidia GPUs for data science, analytics, and distributed machine learning using Python with Dask
Nvidia wants to extend the success of the GPU beyond graphics and deep learning to…