By Subrata Chakrabarti Every enterprise shares a common challenge: they need to be more agile and responsive to customer needs and market changes, but the pace of change makes it difficult to assemble all the right information in one central location. To be effective, their employees need access to intelligence that lets them answer the […]
Combined, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data offer researchers in every field opportunities that didn’t exist a few short years ago. But as more data has become available to researchers, the ability to analyze this data in a meaningful way has become more and more problematic. In the “hard” sciences and especially in the social […]
In 1976, a computer scientist named John Sowa wrote a groundbreaking paper for the IBM Journal of Research and Development called “Conceptual Graphs for a Data Base Interface.” The paper was the culmination of research he had been doing since 1962 for IBM’s applied mathematics group. In the paper, Sowa introduced the conceptual graph, a […]
Can artificial intelligence help in the pursuit of truth? What is truth? How do we know when a thing is true? Philosophers have debated these age-old questions for centuries. The ancient Greeks believed a statement was true if it conformed to an external reality — in other words, a statement was true if it accurately […]
As founder and CEO of Kyndi, Ryan Welsh maintains a high standard of company performance. “Our goal is to make people one hundred times faster and one hundred times smarter,” he says. The secret sauce for people of the future will be their work sidekick — artificial intelligence, in the form of a machine-driven sidekick. […]