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Networked digital twins are coming to industrial blockchains
Industrial designers grapple with complexities at every scale and level of detail. They provide the blueprints for everything from sprawling megaprojects all the way down to the ordinary process control mechanisms that are invisible to most of us. In the 21st century, industrial design often involves starting from a digital representation of some physical system ...
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What will it take to bring blockchain to the masses?
Blockchain is all the rage, but for the most part, it has barely begun to enter the mainstream of enterprise computing. Nevertheless, blockchain now has considerable momentum in many industries. To confirm that, all you need to do is check out recent headlines on how many high-tech vendors are bringing the capability into the heart of ...
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Attackers can fool AI programs. Here’s how developers can fight back
Artificial intelligence isn’t all that different from natural intelligence. No matter how smart you are, you can be fooled. If the tricksters are also intelligent at their craft, they can dupe you with well-designed illusions that prey on weaknesses in your perceptual makeup. In the entertainment field, that’s called magic and it can be a ...
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Big-data stewardship takes the main stage at DataWorks Summit in Berlin
Big-data repositories hold much of the world’s personally identifiable data. Many data management professionals are now laser-focused on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, which will take effect in little over a month and will place strict data-stewardship mandates on any enterprise that does business in any of those nations. Since it was founded in ...
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Why more tech companies should put AI visionaries in the executive suite
Do enterprises really need chief artificial intelligence officers? In most industries, the correct answer would probably be no. For most businesses, AI may never rise to a level of strategic importance that requires a dedicated executive reporting directly to the chief executive. Even so, some high-tech companies might want to consider it. Elevating an AI expert ...
New solutions help enterprise data managers cope with GDPR’s heavy hand
Companies everywhere are racing to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation when it goes into full effect on May 25. GDPR is a legal framework for processing, movement and use of personal data in the EU, with allowances for data transfers outside the union. The EU designed the regulation to protect the privacy of European citizens, ...
AI powers the catalogs of next-generation big data
Data’s relevance doesn’t always jump out at you. It takes work to distill useful insights from enterprise data lakes that are increasingly too large, diverse and dynamic to be explored through entirely manual methods. Discoverability and visibility are what unlocks data’s value. More enterprises are embracing big-data catalogs to harness insights that would otherwise stay ...
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New AI systems on a chip will spark an explosion of even smarter devices
Artificial intelligence is permeating everybody’s lives through the face recognition, voice recognition, image analysis and natural language processing capabilities built into their smartphones and consumer appliances. Over the next several years, most new consumer devices will run AI natively, locally and, to an increasing extent, autonomously. But there’s a problem: Traditional processors in most mobile ...
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From Amazon to Umbo, big computer vision advances are coming to the edge
Computer vision is an extraordinarily overcrowded tech segment. That’s the inescapable conclusion when you browse Angel List and discover that there are 568 startups and 1,993 investors in this market. Computer vision is the convergence of many hot tech segments, including artificial intelligence, the “internet of things,” stream computing, big data analytics, cloud services and ...
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Via Sovrin, IBM supports user-centric global identity on blockchain
User-centric global identity is a dream that won’t die. What it refers to is a universal environment in which people can exchange self-issued digital credentials and rely on their legitimacy without the need for trusted third parties to vouch for and validate them. This vision is a holy grail for libertarians and privacy advocates because it avoids third ...