To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar We will kickoff the 2017 series with an overview of the current state of commercial artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive computing. The research and commercial communities are far from consensus on a few important definitions, so we will start with two that […]
Smart Data Webinar: Leverage the IOT to Build a Smart Data Ecosystem
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>>> About the Webinar No (successful) business is an island. For decades, business schools have taught strategies for improving competitiveness by evaluating strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT), and considering market forces represented by competitors, consumers, and suppliers. Today, enterprises of all sizes are expected to […]
Smart Data Webinar: Emerging Hardware Choices for Modern AI Data Management
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Leading edge AI applications have always been resource-intensive and known for stretching the limits of conventional (von Neumann architecture) computer performance. Specialized hardware, purpose built to optimize AI applications, is not new. In fact, it should be no surprise that the very […]
Smart Data Webinar: Deep QA (Question/Answer) – Lessons From Watson and Jeopardy!
To view just the slides from the presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar It has been five years since IBM’s Watson soundly defeated the all time human champions of the television game show Jeopardy! Watson has evolved since then, and other modern AI/cognitive computing technologies and platforms have emerged, but we still find that most […]
Smart Data Webinar: Autonomous Systems, from Science Fiction to Commercial Solutions
To view the just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Achieving autonomy – the ability and authority to act on one’s own volition – is generally a sign of maturity in humans. In machines, it means that some aspect(s) of control or decision-making has been ceded by humans. As we get comfortable […]
Smart Data Webinar: Advances in Natural Language Processing
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Natural language processing (NLP) – once on the frontier of AI as a research topic with maddeningly low accuracy – is rapidly becoming a requirement for mainstream consumer and enterprise applications. Today, one can build a system that allows natural language text […]
Webinar: Sense and Sensors – From Perception to Personality
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Business and public-sector entities use individual and aggregated data to understand customer/constituent wants and needs. This can range from basic satisfaction survey data to analyzing movement in physical spaces and tracking shopping cart habits online. There is no shortage of data to […]
RWDG Webinar: A Data Governance Framework for Smart Data
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Does your organization have smart data? How does your company define smart data? Smart data is data that is used in non-traditional ways such as through machine learning, through the semantic web and by taking advantage of new data opportunities such as […]
Smart Data Webinar: Emerging Data Management Options
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Everyone talks about the challenges of managing big data, but applications built for the next decade will need more than “bigger” and “faster” versions of the RDBMS systems that dominated at the end of the last century and updates to the NoSQL […]
Smart Data Webinar: Getting Started with Streaming Analytics and the IoT
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar As devices and systems connected to the Internet of Things generate streaming data on a global scale, firms need effective strategies for identifying and leveraging this data in new applications. That may require the integration and analysis of data from internal legacy sources, […]