Big Data and Analytics
Mark Zuckerberg criticises Elon Musk for 'irresponsible' warnings over AI
But Elon Musk hits back suggesting that Zuckerberg 'has limited understanding of AI'
GDPR confusion is still widespread - but Brexit is no excuse
Mistakenly thinking Brexit provides exemption and not reading the new definition of personal data are just two factors stopping companies preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation
Alteryx: 'Big data lakes have become big data swamps'
Despite the skills shortage, firms need to be able to use the big data they collect, says Dean Stoecker of Alteryx
Don't just sit on your backup data, use it!
New research from Computing reveals that much can be done with backup data, and that only a fifth of organisations are so far making effective use of it
The big problem in big data: a lack of skills
A lack of skilled analysts has hamstrung the industry at a time when the demand to adopt AI and big data analytics has never been higher, says Aaron Auld
Tech giants poised to challenge big banks, warns new study
Research suggests consumers have limited loyalty to traditional retail banks and would prefer to bank with 'GAFA' - Google, Apple, Facebook (!) or Amazon
AI will solve the challenge of unstructured data, says IBM
Text, images and voice are difficult for computers to process - but artificial intelligence is making contextual understanding a possibility
Digital Technology Leader Awards - here's who made it big on the night
Many companies competed for the coveted 17 top spots
The UK IT Industry Awards - entries close TODAY
The UK IT Industry Awards are back and bigger than ever - but you have mere hours to complete your entries
Peter Cochrane: Pattern matching: The strengths - and weaknesses - of habit
Standard patterns of behaviour and predictability makes goods and services easier and cheaper to produce, but at what potential cost? Peter Cochrane considers the issue
IBM and Lightbend work to simplify development of AI solutions with Lightbend
Reactive App Development Platform will be used with IBM's cloud
Firms unable to use real-time data due to lack of infrastructure
Jason Nathan, group MD for Data at Dunnhumby said that supermarkets still batch process sales data as their infrastructure can't yet support real-time data flow
Volvo autonomous vehicles struggle to identify kangeroos on Australian roads
'When it's in the air it actually looks like it's further away, then it lands and it looks closer,' says Volvo's David Pickett
Money for old code?
Is your organisation on top of its software licensing? Check, double check, and set aside a few million pounds, just in case you're wrong, warn Fieldfisher's Sam Jardine and Liam Corrigan
Democratisation of data can lead to organisational problems, says expert panel
Democratising data puts power in the hands of staff instead of managers, which can bring with it a whole host of problems, warn experts at a recent Computing event
Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons all considering electronic shelf-edge pricing - but not for implementing 'surge pricing'
Retail industry consultant criticises press reports of supermarkets introducing 'surge pricing' as 'fake news'
Reply demonstrates blockchain-for-insurance and web-based process management at Xchange event
Computing checks out cutting-edge innovation and chats to Reply's Filippo Rizzante
To eliminate data scientists, you need to employ ordinary people, not geniuses, suggests Walnut Data's Bob Tulloch
Big data needs to be as easy to use as Facebook, suggests Tulloch, which means employing ordinary people to do the testing - until it is
Chief data officers will go the way of 'chief electricity officers' - if they do their job properly
As soon as data analysis is as easy as using a search engine, chief data officers will disappear, warns Walnut Medical technical director Bob Tulloch
'Firms who aren't moving towards being data driven are either sunk or sinking,' says Dunnhumby
Jason Nathan, group MD for data at Dunnhumby outlines the importance of having a data strategy
Cisco's new network promises to protect against attacks hidden in encrypted data
But it's still signature-based
Departmental disconnect is hindering digital plans
Progress with data will always be difficult until 'all are singing from the same hymnsheet', warns David Armstrong
For marketers big data is a promise unfulfilled, says ReAD Group chairman Mark Roy
Ads are better targeted, but consumers are turning off
Getting to grips with machine learning
Jean-Cyril Schütterlé explains how ML is taking us from rules-based algorithms to data-driven processes
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