Artificial intelligence is infiltrating every industry, allowing vehicles to navigate without drivers, assisting doctors with medical diagnoses, and giving financial institutions more nuanced ways to predict risk. But for all the authentic use cases, there’s a lot of hype too. Source: AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence CompaniesRead More →

AI is finding its way into a broad range of industries such as education, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, law enforcement, and finance. The sorts of decisions being made by AI-enabled systems is becoming much more profound, and in many cases, critical to life, death, and personal wellness. As artificial intelligence becomes an increasing part of our daily lives, from the image and facial recognition systems popping up in all manner of applications to machine learning-powered predictive analytics, conversational applications, autonomous machines, and hyperpersonalized systems, we are finding that the need to trust these AI based systems with all manner of decision making and predictions is paramount.Read More →

You’ll be surprised to learn that it’s the underlying technology of digital currencies like Bitcoin, and it’s called the blockchain. The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the next few decades has arrived, and it’s not social media, big data, robotics or even AI. You’ll be surprised to learn that it’s the underlying technology of digital currencies like Bitcoin, and it’s called the blockchain. It is not the most sonorous word in the world, but we believe that this is going to be the next generation of the internet, and that it holds massive potential for every business, every society, and for you,Read More →

AI deployment is increasing rapidly across industries in a variety of application areas. The convergence of sensor-driven technologies and other tools is resulting in AI-powered systems that can meet customers wherever they are and form the basis of the new user interface. Evolving AI technologies are helping to create systems that can be deployed wherever the customer is located, make sense of unstructured data, and offer learned insights, among other capabilities. While the hype around AI may be off the charts, it is also no longer a futuristic dream. It is in your smart-home device, your robotic vacuum, and your virtual voice assistant. It isRead More →

A leader of a new effort to teach cybersecurity to local community organizations and the public at large offers some basic tips to get everyone started. 1. Keep everything up to date Many breaches, including the 2017 one at the Equifax credit bureau that exposed the financial information of almost every American adult, boil down to someone leaving out-of-date software running. Most major computer companies issue regular updates to protect against newly emerging vulnerabilities. 2. Use strong, unique passwords Remembering passwords, especially complicated ones, isn’t fun, which is why so much work is going into finding better alternatives. For the time being, though, it’s importantRead More →

Technology is at a inflection point and that the principle discussion in the workplace at the moment is how to manage the convergence of these four trends. 1. Cloud Computing Software is now being offered as a service (i.e., cloud-based, where you are essentially leasing vs. purchasing it) for the past 10 years. 2. IoT The IoT has allowed manufacturers to put sensors at the “edge” of their processes, so that they have much more data from many more areas within their operations to allow them to not only more quickly respond to downtime, but also predict when those events can occur. 3. Big DataRead More →