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3 Challenges Data Science and Shale Production Share
Like shale production, data science is challenged by extracting, refining, and controlling the input that makes it productive. If data is the new oil, it’s a lot more like shale than fresh crude.
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Bad Data Leaves Money on the AI-Enabled Factory Floor
Opportunity & Unrealized Potential. Manufacturing industries are failing to capitalize on the tremendous potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning. While some may blame the limits of technology, a dearth of data science talent, or the resistance of workers rooted in inertia, the root cause of the friction is a lack of data integrity.
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What I’ve learned about scaling a Platform company
This month, Uptake signed the 20th partner in our Platform ecosystem. These collaborators range from companies that maintain some of our country’s largest manufacturing plants to providers of edge devices for our leading utilities.
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The next generation of U.S. global leadership in innovation will require closer collaboration between Technology and Defense
Driving on the freeway in the Bay Area today, you might find yourself surrounded by autonomous cars and trucks. Many people associate driverless vehicles with big tech from the West Coast — Uber, Google, and Amazon, to name a few.
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Technology is Solving the Wrong Problems
FaceTime with 32 friends, updates to Siri and a walkie-talkie on your Apple Watch are just a few of the feature update announcements coming out of Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference this week.
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AI For Good…Maybe a Little Hope?
As someone who lives on the front lines of AI at Uptake, I hear those terms and I react with optimism. Here’s why. Artificial intelligence (“AI”) and Machine learning (“ML”) are being used to do good. You might not read about it in the headlines, but it’s happening.
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Tech must address problems of consequence, not just convenience
Americans are falling out of love with the tech industry. We shouldn’t be surprised. Positive news coverage of the tech sector declined from 60 percent to 16 percent between 1986 and 2013, according to a study last year by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
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Rewarding Brilliance, Creating Failure (and Innovation)
In 2008 and 2009, coders, mathematicians and at least one psychologist became singularly focused on one problem: Improving Netflix’s recommendation algorithm.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution Empowers People -Not Machines
Today, the World Economic Forum (WEF) named Uptake a Technology Pioneer, an exclusive list of 30 of the most innovative companies globally. Our company joins the ranks of Google, Twitter, Airbnb, and Mozilla.
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Down, But Not Out: How Artificial Intelligence Will Save Industry From its Costliest Challenge
One of industry’s biggest challenges is also its most expensive. Downtime is a multi-billion-dollar problem that’s continuing to grow larger and more complex. It’s an increasingly important issue facing global companies in today’s connected world.