Tech giants have commited themselves to making 2015 the year of wearable technology. During the first few months of this year, they’ve been introducing a wide array of wearable devices, such as smartwatches and smartbands. Most of these innovative devices have one thing in common: they try to seduce consumers …
Can Machines Think? Alan Turing asked himself the same question over six decades ago in his famous article entitled “Computing machinery and intelligence†(1950). His answer was to come up with what is today known as the Turing test, although in his day he called it “The Imitation Game†– a name that’s now familiar …
Deep learning is an emerging topic in artificial intelligence (AI). A subcategory of machine learning, deep learning deals with the use of neural networks to improve things like speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. It’s quickly becoming one of the most sought-after fields in computer science. In the …
IoT’s Threats We can list the threats of IoT under three categories; Privacy, Security and Safety. Experts say the security threats of the Internet of Things are broad and potentially even crippling to systems. Since the IoT will have critical infrastructure components, it presents a good target for national and …
Gartner defines dark data as the information assets organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes (for example, analytics, business relationships and direct monetizing). Similar to dark matter in physics, dark data often comprises most organizations’ universe of information assets. Thus, …
Big data is large and complex unstructured data (images posted on Facebook, email, text messages, GPS signals from mobile phones, tweets, and other social media updates, etc.) that cannot be processed by traditional database tools. Big data has three dimensions: volume, velocity, and variety. Three Dimensions of Big Data Big …
The origin of the concept of smart city goes back thirty years. It arose in response to what is today recognized as being one of the major challenges of the 21st century: sustainability. The members of the UN World Commission on Environment and Development were concerned about the impact of human …
“Data Lake†is a massive, easily accessible data repository for storing “big dataâ€. Unlike traditional data warehouses, which are optimized for data analysis by storing only some attributes and dropping data below the level aggregation, a data lake is designed to retain all attributes, especially when you do not yet know …
The Internet of Things (IoT) as a concept is fascinating and exciting, but the key to gaining real business value from it, is effective communication between all elements of the architecture so you can deploy applications faster, process and analyze data at lightning speeds, and make decisions as soon as …
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects—devices, vehicles, buildings and other items which are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and exchange data. Implementing this concept is not an easy task by any measure for many reasons including …
