Last year was great for new technology firms. This year could be even better. Image: sasun Bughda – stock.adobe.com Despite the multiple challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 turned out to be a boom year for technology startups. According to the latest Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor, US startups set a record in 2020, earning $156.2 […]
Reimagining Formula 1 Manufacturing to Build a Respiratory Device
Here’s how the Mercedes Formula 1 engineering team used tech expertise to reverse engineer CPAP breathing aid devices in response to COVID-19. Image: Pixabay Information from real-time data streams drives nearly every aspect of Formula 1 racing and informs the core skills of the F1 industry — from rapid design and prototype manufacture to testing […]
IBM’s Hernandez Discusses Future of AIOps and Measuring ROI
More automation of IT operations may be on the way to industry and regulated sectors that have yet to embrace its possibilities. The rollout of more and more resources that introduce AI and automation to IT operations may help organizations discover issues faster, and IBM believes such technology is proving its worth in the time […]
Google Brings Databricks to Its Cloud Platform
Recently Google announced a partnership with Databricks to bring their fully-managed Apache Spark offering and data lake capabilities to Google Cloud. The offering will become available as Databricks on Google Cloud. Databricks on Google Cloud will be tightly integrated with Google Cloud’s infrastructure and analytics capabilities. By integrating Databricks with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), customers […]
Mini book: InfoQ eMag: Modern Data Engineering
Data architecture is being disrupted, echoing the evolution of software architecture over the past decade. The changes coming to data engineering will look and sound familiar to those who have watched monoliths be broken up into microservices: DevOps to DataOps; API Gateway to Data Gateway; Service Mesh to Data Mesh. While this will have benefits […]
Mini book: The InfoQ eMag: Data Engineering
Data architecture is being disrupted, echoing the evolution of software architecture over the past decade. The changes coming to data engineering will look and sound familiar to those who have watched monoliths be broken up into microservices: DevOps to DataOps; API Gateway to Data Gateway; Service Mesh to Data Mesh. While this will have benefits […]
How AI Can Save the World, or Not
Lead artificial intelligence advisor to the United Nations, Neil Sahota shares his perspectives on major UN AI projects and the major challenges to AI today. Once just science fiction, the use of artificial intelligence is taking hold across industries and governments in a multitude of use cases. But these days we’re not so much worried […]
What Lawyers Want Everyone to Know About AI Liability
There are more discussions about AI ethics and responsible AI these days, but companies need to be clear about potential AI liability issues. Image: Sikov – stock.adobe.com As artificial intelligence moves deeper into enterprises, companies have been responding with AI ethics principles and values and responsible AI initiatives. However, translating lofty ideals into something practical […]
CRM Trends 2021: How the Pandemic Altered Customer Behavior Forever
Customers flocked to digital channels and faced life-changing events in 2020. Here’s how enterprise companies are changing their CRM practices for a new normal. In 2020 organizations faced an unexpected and profound change in customer behavior. More customers than ever were choosing to interact digitally with their banks, their grocery stores, their insurance companies, their […]
The First Machine Learning School for Business Schools is in the Books!
We are happy to share that yesterday we hosted the First Machine Learning School for Business Schools. Over 1,600 business professionals, industry practitioners, advanced undergraduates, and Machine Learning professors registered to join virtually. The registrants for the event were spread out all around the globe among 97 countries like Spain, United States, India, Peru, and […]