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A new method to boost the speed of online databases

Hashing is a core operation in most online databases, like a library catalogue or an e-commerce website. A hash function…

Mar 16, 2023 Yves Mulkers 11M views 3 min read

8 Strategies for Chief Data Officers to Create — and Demonstrate — Value

The CDO role is poorly understood, and incumbents of the job have often met with diffuse expectations and short tenures.…

Feb 7, 2023 Yves Mulkers 25M views 3 min read

MIT Taxonomy Helps Build Explainability Into the Components of Machine-Learning Models

Researchers develop tools to help data scientists make the features used in machine-learning models more understandable for end users. Explanation…

Jan 13, 2023 Yves Mulkers 41M views 3 min read

New quantum computing architecture could be used to connect large-scale devices

Quantum computers hold the promise of performing certain tasks that are intractable even on the world’s most powerful supercomputers. In…

Jan 13, 2023 Yves Mulkers 48M views 3 min read

In machine learning, synthetic data can offer real performance improvements

Teaching a machine to recognize human actions has many potential applications, such as automatically detecting workers who fall at a…

Nov 6, 2022 Yves Mulkers 54M views 3 min read

The Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence

The advantages of artificial intelligence are many and only growing. AI can quickly translate a passage of text — for…

Sep 6, 2022 Yves Mulkers 34M views 3 min read

Data is the key to overcoming the ‘new digital divide’

Four ways to make sure your company is on the right side of the digital divide between data-driven companies and…

Aug 27, 2022 Yves Mulkers 6.4M views 3 min read

In early research, an AI model detects signs of Parkinson’s using breathing patterns

James Parkinson first flagged a link between changes in breathing patterns and the debilitating disease that now bears his name.…

Aug 26, 2022 Yves Mulkers 21M views 3 min read

7 traits of digital-savvy CIOs

Much has been made of CIOs’ need for business and leadership skills. To be truly transformational leaders, today’s CIOs must…

Aug 14, 2022 Yves Mulkers 26M views 4 min read

Can Computers Understand Complex Words and Concepts?

In “Through the Looking Glass,” Humpty Dumpty says scornfully, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to…

Jun 23, 2022 Yves Mulkers 53M views 3 min read