Collaborate Disseminate
Todd R. Weiss
Since 2015, Google has been using its own internally-developed Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips to run machine-learning applications inside its data center… Continue reading Google Shares New Details About its TPU Machine-Learning Chips
Cathy O’Neil, Bloomberg News
My friend Michael Harris, a fellow mathematician and author, recently sent me his psychological profile as compiled by Apply Magic Sauce, an algorithm operated by the Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre. This is a cousin of an algorithm that profiles people via access to their Facebook accounts, some version of which was used last year by the software company Cambridge Analytica to help them sway U.S. voters.
Continue reading Algorithms Can Be Pretty Crude Toward Women
A survey shows that Windows 10 migration is under consideration by many companies throughout the world along with many other IT considerations.
read more Continue reading Survey: IT Decision Makers Talk Windows 10, Mobility, and Security
Todd R. Weiss
The White House recently removed all of its free open government data from its website. Experts are concerned it could be a signal that open data is in dange… Continue reading How Losses of Federal Open Data Could Affect IT and Businesses
Audit of $62 million partnership with IBM’s Artificial Intelligence engine found results lacking
IBM has marketed Watson as a multidisciplinary artificial intelligence tha… Continue reading Dr. Watson gets benched at University of Texas’ MD Anderson
It’s hard to fathom that the work of Reverend Thomas Bayes is still coming back to drive cutting edge advancements in AI, but that’s exactly what’s happening. DARPA-backed Gamalon is the latest carrier of the Bayesian baton, launching today with a solution to help enterprises better manage their gnarly unstructured data.
The world of enterprise is full of unstructured data. Read More Continue reading Gamalon leverages the work of an 18th century reverend to organize unstructured enterprise data
If you’ve spent time following companies like Orbital Insight and Descartes Labs, you might assume the geospatial analytics race has been won. But TellusLabs thinks, on the contrary, that the table hasn’t even started to cool. Armed with $3 million in new seed funding from IA Ventures and an investor group including Hyperplane VC, FounderCollective and Project11, the… Read More Continue reading TellusLabs wants to help us better understand our planet
Bloomberg
By Mark Buchanan
The data scientists writing the algorithms that drive giants like Alphabet Inc. (Google) and Facebook Inc. are today’s technology wizards… Continue reading Beating Back the Creeping Tyranny of Big Data
Bloomberg
By Mark Buchanan
The data scientists writing the algorithms that drive giants like Alphabet Inc. (Google) and Facebook Inc. are today’s technology wizards… Continue reading Beating Back the Creeping Tyranny of Big Data
Bloomberg
By Mark Buchanan
The data scientists writing the algorithms that drive giants like Alphabet Inc. (Google) and Facebook Inc. are today’s technology wizards… Continue reading Beating Back the Creeping Tyranny of Big Data