Military Insurer USAA Embraces IBM’s Watson
IBM said this week it is expanding commercialization of its Watson cognitive computing technology through a deal with military financial services provider USAA that will result in what IBM said will be...
View ArticleContent Analytics Gets a Natural Language Boost
Natural language processing technology continues to be integrated with “data exploration” and content analytics as vendors seek to offer better tools designed to help enterprises tap into more data and...
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Can Big Data Give Us Bionic Brains?
The rise of big data and analytics promises to transform many aspects of our lives, chief among them how we synthesize data and make decisions. Some theorize that big data will augment our own...
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IBM Watson Learns Deeply, So You Don’t Have To
Advances in the field of cognitive computing are stacking up as researchers push the bounds of deep learning and related techniques like neural networks. But organizations won’t have to wait years for...
View ArticleWatson App Gives Big Data for Christmas
Holiday shopping anxiety? There’s an app for that. IBM launched its Watson-based “Trend” app this week designed to keep users posted on what’s selling this Christmas and why. Watson Trend was released...
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Is 2016 the Beginning of the End for Big Data?
Part of my job as managing editor of Datanami is to be a hype buster. Over the past five years, the amount of hoopla and hysteria over big data has reached epic proportions at times. That’s why some in...
View ArticleBig Data Spreading Everywhere Like Air, Deloitte Says
For some, the downward trend of the term “big data” on Web word counters and disappearance off hype curves is an indication that the phenomenon has past, that big data is now neither a problem to be...
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Taming Unstructured Data with Cognitive Computing
Contending with unstructured data is no longer a priority reserved for the most well-financed, IT-savvy organizations, like Google and Facebook. As the world’s data continues to increase at nearly...
View ArticleIBM Watson, NBA Raptors Seek Data ‘Slam Dunk’
“With the [to be determined] pick in the first round of the 2016 NBA Draft, the Toronto Raptors—with the help of cognitive and analytics technology—select….” While it may not unfold that quickly, the...
View ArticleCognitive Computing Specialist Expands U.S. R&D
Multilingual cognitive computing technologist Expert Systems said this week it is expanding its U.S. research and development operations with the opening of new labs in Silicon Valley and the...
View ArticleIoT Seen Driving AI Adoption
While hardware vendors view it as another vehicle for selling more chips and servers that would allow enterprises to move processing power closer to data, the torrent of sensor and other information...
View ArticleCognitive Platform Sharpens Focus on Unstructured Data
Big data platform vendors are increasingly focusing on churning through unstructured data, especially for text, audio and even security applications like insider threat analysis. Among the companies...
View ArticleNSF Funds New Cognitive Science Research
As part of its BRAIN initiative, the National Science Foundation announced a second series of grants this week awarded to multidisciplinary teams to further explore cognitive and neural systems,...
View ArticleVeritone, Cognitive Media Startup, Raises $50M
The developers of a “cognitive media platform” designed to render audio and video content and make the results searchable have closed a $50 million funding round. Veritone Inc. announced this week that...
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SAS Goes Back to the Future of Cognitive Computing with Viya
SAS yesterday unveiled plans to bolster its entire product lineup under the new Viya architecture with hefty doses of cognitive computing in an effort to make the software easier to use, more...
View ArticleAI Platforms Seen Emerging in 2017
Technology predictions for next year are already filtering in, with artificial intelligence and full-blown analytics and other platforms increasingly seen as among the keys to opening the big data...
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How Intelligent Machines Learn to Make Sense of the World
Home Depot uses it to show which bathtubs in its huge inventory will fit someone’s oddly shaped bathroom. Apple uses it to present customers with relevant apps from the app store. Intuit uses it to...
View ArticleAI Comes to Operational Analytics
Artificial intelligence is making inroads as a way of helping developers and IT managers oversee the delivery of distributed applications. Loom Systems said its AI-based operational analytics platform...
View ArticleIBM Broadens Collaboration on Anaconda
IBM, which recently extended support for the Anaconda data science platform to its open source mainframe, takes another step this week by offering the data platform on its Cognitive Systems platform in...
View ArticleJob Worries Grow as AI Shifts to Public Sector
Warnings about massive job displacement brought about by artificial intelligence are growing louder as researchers cite more examples of private sector and, more recently, pubic sector adoption of...
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