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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 …
Ensuring crypto compliance in any jurisdiction
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 …
Artificial intelligence technology shows signs of maturing, says Google AI expert
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 …
Open-source data governance builds trust for accountability, security
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 …
How AMC sees returns on its own data investments
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 …
AI will never surpass humans, says former chess world champion Garry Kasparov
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 …
Virtualizating data sources accelerates machine learning development
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 …
Startup increases accountability for charitable micro-donations
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 …
Social responsibility drives 2018 tech companies, Accenture report reveals
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 …
‘Extended reality’ is moving beyond the test-and-learn phase
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 …