Click here to learn more about author James Kobielus. Data is data. It’s not inherently dumb or smart. What matters is whether your data, be it large or small, contributes to smarter decisions. How can you leverage your big-data resource so that it drives smarter decisions? Last year, DATAVERSITY published this thought-provoking Dataversity article in which they stated […]
$5 Million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition Open for Registration
by Angela Guess A recent announcement out of the company reports, “XPRIZE, the global leader in incentivized prize competitions, today announced that registration is now open and guidelines are available for the $5 million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, a four-year global competition challenging teams to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful artificial […]
Conversational Smart Machines Need to Earn Our Trust
by Angela Guess Jennifer Snell recently wrote in TechCrunch, “Gartner predicts that by 2018 a full 30 percent of our interactions with technology will be through ‘conversations’ with smart machines. Major players such as Microsoft, Facebook and Google are now focused on empowering development of smart bots, and IBM’s Watson is looking to find ways […]
IBM Watson Moves Into Marketing, Powering Lucy
by Angela Guess Barry Levine recently wrote in MarketingLand, “Suppose that, someday in the future, a data-besieged marketer could use menu commands or plain English text to ask questions about any data. That future, according to a company called Equals 3, is here, and it’s called Lucy. Launched recently, she is the first marketing-focus portal […]
American Diabetes Association and IBM Watson Health Join Forces
by Angela Guess A recent article out of the company reports, “The American Diabetes Association and IBM Watson Health today announced a long-term collaboration to bring together the cognitive computing power of Watson and the Association’s vast repository of clinical and research data. The organizations aim to build a first-of-its-kind diabetes advisor for patients and […]
How You Know Insight as a Service is Right for Your Enterprise
Click here to learn more about author Luca Scagliarini. Businesses are buying all kinds of data and data analytics solutions but they may still fail to meet their business goals. Increasingly, vendors and professional services firms are offering Insights as a Service (IaaS), which can be part of the cloud stack or a new, pay-for-answers economic model. Let me […]
Enabling Effective Decision Making with Artificial Intelligence and Semantics
by Angela Guess Luca Scagliarini recently wrote in ITProPortal, “Speed and scale were once the most important features of computing power but the so-called ‘information era’ has radically changed the business drivers of any organisation, putting data at the centre of their strategies. Today, intelligent systems making sense of information enable the most effective data-driven […]
Oil and Gas, Sustainability, and Cognitive Computing
by Angela Guess Steve Callahan and Sandipan Sarkar of IBM recently wrote in Forbes, “Around the world, sustainability is increasingly being adopted as a social objective and a political need. Though approaches and pace differ from region to region, nearly every nation starting to focus on making electric supply more sustainable. How sustainability is embraced […]
Turning Human-Computer Interaction into a Conversation with Cognitive Computing
by Angela Guess Jacob Serebrin recently wrote in TechVibes, “As applications become smarter and more adaptive, user experience is about to undergo a massive change, one that will make the way we interact with our computers and devices a lot more natural. For IBM, whose Watson cognitive computing platform powers a variety of applications, the […]
Don’t Fence Me In: Tensions on the Data Science Frontier
Click here to learn more about author James Kobielus. Data scientists can be a stubborn, proud, and independent lot. In their hearts, they’re new-age prospects whose primary occupation is to uncover hidden veins of insight buried deep in data. Self-starting genius is a great thing, but it’s not what pays the bills. In the new […]