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The Age of Context, and How It Will Change Our Lives
We live in a wash of social media and ever-present computing, and it’s already had an impact on our lives. But as I argue in the forthcoming book that Shel Israel and I are working on, The Age of...
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Big Data Still Needs a Human Touch
In July, I brought my 15-month-old and 4-year-old sons to a medical center in Palo Alto. Eight weeks earlier, I had moved to California to launch my company Hexigo in the U.S., and it was time to see a...
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Culture of Sharing to Expand the Internet of Things
Everything is being connected: cars, cargo containers, street lighting and parking spaces — even ballpoint pens, wristwatches, glasses, and coffee cups. Nowadays nobody asks anymore whether the...
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Turning Risk Into Opportunity: Taming Big Identity Data
We have a dilemma. By we, I mean all of us who work in a company that uses data. Workers need access to information to do their jobs. We also need to share appropriate information with customers and...
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What To Do When Your Honey Turns Blue?
When bees in France began producing blue honey, people started to scratch their heads. It wasn’t until several months of intense sleuthing that the source of the color was found: bees have a sweet...
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The Growing Importance of Natural Language Processing
Interest in natural language processing (NLP) began in earnest in 1950 when Alan Turing published his paper entitled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” from which the so-called Turing Test...
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The Data Awakening Is Upon Us — And That’s A Good Thing
What’s that old story about the telephone and the two guys sitting next to each other who couldn’t understand the need for such a technology? After all, why call someone when you can just talk to each...
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Data Centers and the Internet of Things to Come
With a Nest Learning Thermostat, at any moment, no matter where you are in the world, you can pull out your iPhone and adjust the temperature in your house or compare your energy use to others. With a...
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Wearable Tech: Keeping It Close to the Chest
Wearable technology will generate more confidential data than ever before. But will it stay secure? Remember how, just a few years ago, something called “the cloud” was generating a whole lot of buzz?...
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Rocketing Out of Coalwood: How AI Will Transform Business — and Lives
“Coal mining may be your life, but it’s not mine. I’m never going down there again. I want to go into space.” – Homer Hickam in “October Sky” I was born in 1970, when people had just walked on the ...
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