Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

Facial Recognition’s Big 3: Accuracy (without Bias), Speed and Size

July 19th, 2019 (0)

Having witnessed advancements in facial recognition from the start, I’ve marveled at the accumulation of use cases as companies familiarize themselves with the technology. Facial recognition facilitates enhancements to everyday life — helping us organize our online photos, replacing ...

Deep Learning Drives Global Financial Institution ‘to Gain Every Little Cent’

July 18th, 2019 (0)

Oh, to be a data scientist now that AI is here. Money, prestige, deference and little interference, since few understand much of what data scientists do. Still, it isn’t all beer and skittles, data scientists face the daily grind, ...

Red Hat in Middle of IBM-AT&T’s Expanded 5G, Cloud Pact

July 16th, 2019 (0)

Ranked behind only the Dell-EMC and Avago-Broadcom acquisitions as the largest in the history of the technology industry, IBM’s $34 billion blockbuster purchase of Red Hat, announced last October and closed last week, may already be paying dividends. This ...

Graph Databases and Why You Should Care About Them

July 15th, 2019 (0)

You use graph databases every day and probably don’t know it. Every time you visit LinkedIn and see first-, second-, or third-degree connections, you’re getting results from the social networking site’s professional network graph built on a graph database. Facebook, Instagram ...

Intelligent Data Virtualization and Freedom of Choice for Data Scientists

July 12th, 2019 (0)

Data scientists must deliver accurate, agile insights that enhance company performance. At the same time, they face a host of technical barriers involving legacy data silos, security, data governance and a growing variety of business intelligence (BI) tools. Oddly ...

Nvidia Expands DGX-Ready AI Program to 19 Countries

July 11th, 2019 (0)

Nvidia’s DGX-Ready Data Center Program, announced in January and designed to provide colo and public cloud-like options to access the company’s GPU-powered servers for AI workloads, has expanded the program beyond the U.S. and doubled the number of data ...

U.S., China Surge AI Venture Investment

July 10th, 2019 (0)

Surprise! Venture capital funding in AI is heating up – sorry, continuing to heat up – hitting a record high in 2018, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. The top 10 VC investors took part in 150 ...

Applied Materials Embedding New Memory Technologies in Chips

July 9th, 2019 (0)

Applied Materials, the $17 billion Santa Clara-based materials engineering company for the semiconductor industry, today announced manufacturing systems enabling new memory technologies to be deposited “with atomic-level precision” within chips. “Today’s high-volume memory technologies including DRAM, SRAM and flash ...

How to Overcome the AI Trust Gap: A Strategy for Business Leaders

July 6th, 2019 (0)

AI is like the world, you can’t get around it – you’ve got to take it on. Numerous studies point to higher profits and productivity at companies that adopt machine and deep learning, and most companies have AI projects ...

IoT Is Coming to Your Pets

July 5th, 2019 (0)

People will do anything for their pets – this is something businesses bank on. Pets are family, after all, and in the U.S. alone there are 85 million families with pets, so it’s no surprise the pet industry is ...