As entire industries announce digital transformation initiatives leveraging big data, many companies are working behind the scenes to enable these success stories. Moving the computation of big data from traditional central processing units to speedier graphics processing units in support of massive parallel computing makes big data far more accessible throughout an organization, according to Daniel Raskin (pictured), chief marketing officer ...

Blockchain technology is complicated enough, but ensuring its asset-based security and liquidity for serious investors is driving innovation in the very nascent market of digital currencies. The limitations of corporate financing can be decentralized with blockchain-based security tokens, by opening the secured ledger process to more investors and providing liquidity to token holders. While working to tokenize an entire ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have long been touted as a silver bullet for enabling automation and improving productivity, but technological challenges had inhibited adoption. From the early days of his career, circa 2007, Ron Bodkin (pictured), technical director of applied artificial intelligence at Google LLC, has been involved in the development and deployment of the first manifestations ...

The challenge of managing data access, accountability and security, collectively known as data governance, is bringing companies together to create a standardized, holistic solution. Hortonworks Inc., an enterprise data management software company, is seeking to unify the data management experience across multiple industries by leveraging open-source technology to create a common trusted framework. “We don’t want ...

In the Netflix era, the entire media industry has been disrupted by data insights. Curated content, custom recommendations, and targeted ads define television consumption models today, and AMC Networks Inc. is beefing up its own investments in analytics in an effort to successfully navigate its own digital transformation. “In order to be able to deliver that premium [data] ...

Former world champion chess player Garry Kasparov famously beat 32 computers at chess simultaneously before being defeated by the Deep Blue AI in 1997. Kasparov has since taken a firm stance in support of machine learning and claims that many critics do not understand the difference between an open and a closed system. Once these closed systems ...

Companies from all sectors are being forced through digital transformations to maintain a competitive edge and are turning to machine learning for deeper predictive and real-time analytics. Advanced machine learning models, however, require clean, consistent data streams to effectively generate value. Outside of a handful of major players and early adopters of cloud technology, many ...

Washington, D.C. is becoming a hotbed for collaboration among government agencies, non-profit ventures, charitable foundations and private investors, all looking to drive social change through technology. The third cohort of the PeaceTech Accelerator, an accelerator dedicated to reducing violence and scaling peacebuilding efforts through technology, includes OneRelief, a non-profit charitable donation platform that is taking ...

Assessing the current state of affairs for the technology industry, the “Accenture Technology Vision 2018” report just released by Accenture PLC surveyed more than 6,300 businesses and information technology executives. Among the key vectors of innovation — such as extended reality or data veracity — a critical component to the way technology companies do business moving ...

At the Accenture Technology Vision event this week in San Francisco, an annual report on the current state of technology was the topic of conversation. One of the key trends examined in the report was extended reality, which is seeing increased adoption from enterprises with more pilot programs and major deployments rolling out. Companies are even ...