Will robots help or harm? It's time for 'big thinking,' AI experts warn
Robots have considerable potential to make human lives better, but only if humans start doing some "big thinking" now about how to ensure that AI's effect is beneficial, experts said at the Heidelberg...
View ArticleVint Cerf's dream do-over: 2 ways he'd make the internet different
Vint Cerf is considered a father of the internet, but that doesn't mean there aren't things he would do differently if given a fresh chance to create it all over again.
View Article5 tech trends that have Turing Award winners worried
Technology has considerable potential to make the world better, but those benefits are far from guaranteed. Plenty of downsides can pop up along the way, and some of them have Turing Award winners...
View ArticleForget the robocalypse -- 'Homo connecticus' may be what's coming
Robots' potential to take over the world is a commonly expressed fear in the world of AI, but at least one Turing Award winner doesn't see it happening that way.
View ArticleIBM promises a one-stop analytics shop with AI-powered big data platform
Big data is in many ways still a wild frontier, requiring wily smarts and road-tested persistence on the part of those hoping to find insight in all the petabytes. On Tuesday, IBM announced a new...
View ArticleMeet Apache Spot, a new open source project for cybersecurity
Hard on the heels of the discovery of the largest known data breach in history, Cloudera and Intel on Wednesday announced that they've donated a new open source project to the Apache Software...
View ArticleWhite House to data scientists: We need you
It's been nearly two years since President Obama created the U.S. chief data scientist role, and the man currently in the job had an urgent message Thursday for attendees at Strata+Hadoop World: We...
View ArticleNeed work-life balance? These IT jobs can be a good place to look
Achieving balance between work and home life is an ongoing challenge for professionals across industries, but it turns out the IT world is doing pretty well in helping to make it happen.
View ArticleHappy 25th once again to Linux, 'the little OS that definitely could'
Aug. 25 may be Linux's official birthday, but Oct. 5 is in many ways the day it began to make a real mark on the world.
View ArticleWhy being a data scientist 'feels like being a magician'
What is it like to be a data scientist? Here's what three people currently on the front lines had to say.
View ArticleOpenStack Newton serves up a heaping helping of scalability
The next release of OpenStack made its debut on Thursday with a raft of new features for better scalability and resiliency.
View ArticleHere's to our health, with help from Watson
IBM may have originally built Watson to win at Jeopardy, but it saw potential applications in healthcare early on.
View ArticleMilestones along the way in Watson's colorful history
How did IBM's Watson get to where it is today? Here are some key events that happened along the way.
View ArticleWatson's the name, data's the game
There's a new data expert making a name for himself in the corporate world today, and he's impressing a lot of people.
View ArticleIt's (not) elementary: How Watson works
What goes into making a computer understand the world through senses, learning and experience, as IBM says Watson does? First and foremost, tons and tons of data.
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