Google CEO Sundar Pichai pictured next to Google's quantum computing setup.  GOOGLE This week’s edition of science journal Nature features the modestly titled paper, “Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor.” But it represents a major milestone in the quantum computing industry and for Google in particular. The paper demonstrates a quantum computer solving a problem, for the first time, significantly faster than a classical computer...

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There’s a famous saying about Statistics being the art of misleading people into believing that, if two individuals had two chickens available and one person ate both, what actually happened is that they ate one each. I could not avoid thinking of that, when I came across the Oracle-commissioned "From Fear to Enthusiasm - AI is Winning Hearts and Minds in the Workplace"...

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SHUTTERSTOCK The education sector has long treated every student the same. However, every student is unique and has different learning capabilities. The use of computer vision in education can help to maximize students’ academic output by providing a customized learning experience based on their individual strengths and weaknesses. Benefits of computer vision in education The main advantage of computer vision in education is the ease...

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Artificial intelligence has been around since 1956 when the term was first coined. Those in the industry know that there has been previous hype and then disillusionment around AI. The period of decline of interest in AI is known in the industry as an AI winter, and has happened twice before. An AI winter is a point at which research, investment, and funding for AI...

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The pace of artificial intelligence continues inexorably forward. Every day we see continued development of new technologies, new applications, and greater investment in AI, machine learning, and the host of cognitive technologies. While we might be able to easily see how some of these technologies will be implemented in the short term, what does the future hold for widespread adoption of AI? In...

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When a conversation turns to analytics or big data, the terms structured, semi-structured and unstructured might get bandied about. These are classifications of data that are now important to understand with the rapid increase of semi-structured and unstructured data today as well as the development of tools that make managing and analyzing these classes of data possible. Here’s what you need to know....

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GETTY 93% of enterprises are securing remote locations with a centralized approach that rarely scales to secure every endpoint and identity of remote branch locations, leaving an enterprise more vulnerable to a breach. Enabling network security is the greatest challenge enterprises face when managing a highly distributed network with numerous remote locations. In an era of cloud-first networks, 9 out of 10 companies...

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