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Infrastructure and devices blend for ‘internet of people, places and things’
Software is increasingly defining information technology infrastructure; some believe it’s a two-way street and that new Internet of Things infrastructure can inform the applications that developers create. “It’s all about, to me, the internet of people, places and things in terms of how these things come together,” said Susie Wee (pictured), vice president and chief technical officer of ...
Dynamic duo: Can AI and humans revolutionize thought labor together?
In a presentation at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, Bhushan Desam, senior business development manager of HPC and AI, Data Center Group, at Lenovo Group Ltd., asked: What is intelligence? Addressing Artificial Intelligence and human job loss, he gave two scenarios: A man crossing the street is about to be hit by a van — he ...
AI can do that too? Retail therapy for closet overload
Michelle Bacharach had a problem. She would buy an article of clothing and then realize it didn’t go with anything else in her closet. Then she found a way for artificial intelligence to do in seconds what her human brain could not. The co-founder and chief executive officer of FINDMINE Inc. believes the company’s retail ...
Is Facebook’s Messenger bot the best social strategy for corporate AI?
Businesses, entrepreneurs and public figures tired of trailing targets on the endless circuit of social apps might find some respite in chatbots. “If I told you there was a social app that had a billion users every month, bigger than Snapchat plus Twitter plus Instagram combined, you’d want to figure out a strategy for how ...
Will AI make daily commutes the best part of your workday?
Ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft have made the daily commute a less frustrating part of the day for many. Now a crowd-sourced fleet of 14-passenger vehicles acquired by Ford Motor Company is promising more. “What Chariot and Ford is looking forward to doing in the next couple of years is to actually make [your ...
A Jetsons world: how artificial intelligence will revolutionize work and play
As artificial intelligence tools become smarter and easier to use, the threat that they may take human jobs is real. They might also just make people much better at what they do, revolutionizing the workday for many. “What a bulldozer was to physical labor, AI is to data and to thought labor,” said Naveen Rao (pictured), vice ...
This nonprofit uses AI, deep learning to fight crimes against children
At this year’s South by Southwest the theme for our conference tech coverage is “AI for good.” Technologists will be discussing how they are using new developments in artificial intelligence to solve complex, long-standing social problems, including crimes against children. Federico Gomez Suarez (pictured), senior technical program manager at Microsoft, spoke to John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile ...
Is this software-defined network solution the final key to cloud takeover?
The network bottleneck is still causing headaches for the sensor-heavy Internet of Things and next-gen networking with 5G, having to manage big data applications and real-time data processing. Until this bottleneck is addressed, cloud computing can’t take off in the enterprise, according to Praveen Akkiraju, chief executive officer of Viptela Inc. “It’s essentially the last leg ...
Intel says it is now a ‘cloud and IoT company’
Just as companies like Google Inc. are now offering cloud services to win enterprise customers, hardware producer Intel in turn is optimizing products with cloud providers in mind. “We completely restructured Intel to be a cloud and [Internet of Things] company,” said Raejeanne Skillern, vice president of the Data Center Group and general manager of the Cloud Service ...
Could a multi-cloud strategy double as disaster protection?
Last week’s Amazon Web Service S3 storage service outage sent jitters through IT departments — if this could happen at Amazon, it could happen anywhere. Many are wondering which cloud vendors they can depend on and if a multi-cloud strategy might help protect data. Nelson Nahum (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer at Zadara Storage Inc., doesn’t ...