Towards the Smart City Through Big Data By Joe Morrissey, Vice President International, Hortonworks Hortonworks’ VP International on the big data challenges of smart cities Traffic jams, congested roads and bottlenecks, in both the supply and disposal of goods, are ever-present issues and of growing concern for modern cities. The big question for city operators is how to address these challenges and keep their cities...

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Wars of None: AI, Big Data, and the Future of Insurgency Photo Credit: via jpreis.com Editor’s Note: The rapid pace of technological innovation is changing the nature of warfare, and futurists are busy spinning out scenarios of a U.S.-China clash in twenty years involving nano-technology and fully autonomous weapons systems. Yet how will new technologies shape insurgency and counterinsurgency, which conjures up images...

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Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve Computer scientists have been searching for years for a type of problem that a quantum computer can solve but that any possible future classical computer cannot. Now they’ve found one Early on in the study of quantum computers, computer scientists posed a question whose answer, they knew, would reveal something...

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Novel app switches you to healthier options  Like a nutritionist whispering in your ear Drop that yogurt. Instead, try this one with less sugar, fat and fewer unpronounceable additives. That’s the message from FoodSwitch — a free mobile app developed by Northwestern researchers. Using FoodSwitch is like having a nutritionist at your side in the grocery store. “FoodSwitch is unique in that users don’t...

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The impact of AI and IoT on data creation and analytics In a region with about 40% of the world’s population, there is a lot of potential for artificial intelligence development in Asia. However, there are two challenges that need to be tackled, according to Mike Potter, Chief Technology Officer at Qlik. First, the massive amounts of unstructured data created by connected devices...

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