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Baidu; Deep Bench Optimization for Deep Learning
At the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference on September 29, 2016, Baidu Research announced DeepBench, an open source benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of deep learning operations on different hardware platforms. Greg Diamos and Sharan Narang of Baidu Research’s Silicon Valley AI Lab talked at the conference about the motivation for developing the benchmark and […]
Self-driving Cars Will Push Chip Technology and Hardware Systems
Dean Takahashi, Venture Beat Google has been a leader in the nascent field of self-driving cars. The technology for those cars will not only push the limits of artificial intelligence and machine vision software, it will also push semiconductor chip technology and hardware systems. Daniel Rosenband, hardware engineer in the self-driving cars division at Google, […]
Applications of Deep Learning
Syed Danish Ali This post highlights a number of important applications found for deep learning so far. It is well known that 80% of data is unstructured. Unstructured data is the messy stuff every quantitative analyst tries to traditionally stay away from. It can include images of accidents, text notes of loss adjusters, social media […]
Healthcare Big Data Venture Funding Grows Q1
Venture capitalists poured more than $1 billion into the healthcare IT sector during the first quarter of 2016 as investors look to target data analytics and telemedicine for growth. The first three months also saw several large big data acquisitions as key players like IBM’s Watson Health unit continued their buying sprees. Market researcher Mercom […]
6 Ways Analytics And The Internet Of Things Will Transform Business
At IBM’s Insight conference, Bob Picciano, senior vice president of IBM Analytics, talked about the rise of the “cognitive business”, or an enterprise that engages with analytics to improve its customer relations, business processes, and decision-making capabilities. There are dueling predictions over how ubiquitous the Internet of Things will be, but most indicate that the […]
Ten Commandments of Business Intelligience
by Shant Hovsepian-The 10 Commandments of Business Intelligence in Big Data. Organizations today don’t use previous generation architectures to store their big data. Why would they use previous-generation BI tools for big data analysis? When looking at BI tools for your organization, there are 10 “Commandments” you should live by. First Commandment: Thou Shalt Not […]
Connected Assets, Big Data and Better Decision-Making
by Eddie Amos New power does not come from data itself, but from the evolution of connectivity. First we connected computers, then we connected 2.3 billion people annually and then we connected sensors and machines. There is no doubt that our lives as humans are evolving. New technologies, including everything from our refrigerators and Fitbits […]
Beyond Social: How Text Analytics Can Improve Business
By Alex Woodie: There’s been a lot of time and attention dedicated to mining social media with big data techniques. With more than 400 million tweets a day, you’re almost certain to find a trending Twitter topic that’s relevant to you. But text analytics’ potential is much bigger than social media, and some of its […]
What’s Your Strategic Intent for Big Data?
Like many new information technologies, Big Data can bring about dramatic cost reductions, substantial improvements in the time required to perform a computing task, or new product and service offerings. Which of these benefits are you seeking? The technologies and concepts behind Big Data allow organizations to achieve a variety of objectives, but you are […]
Big Data and the Brain: Keeping the Cognitive Load in Check
Having a large amount of data is not useful by itself, it has to be easy to find and retrieve the data for later use. Part of what makes this challenging is the human brain. In this post, we will review how the limits of the brain have helped to shape the file systems we […]
