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Brittany Singh: How Can We Stay Smarter Than Machines?

Brittany Singh B Educated
October 07, 2014
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the sum of many great human minds to apprehend the environment and make sound decisions to achieve success. To exist, AI needs to encapsulate three things: hardware, software and the input/output mechanisms that work together to enable the machine to perform intelligently. In essence, AI equips machines for divergent thinking, to inspire a wider scope of thinking and creativity.
 

Visual Control of Big Data

Mit News
August 29, 2014

Data-visualization tool identifies sources of aberrant results and recomputes visualizations without them.

In the age of Big Data, visualization tools are vital. With a single glance at a graphic display, a human being can recognize patterns that a computer might fail to find even after hours of analysis.

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Is Your Power Company Extreme-Ready?

August 20, 2014

Eight million homes and businesses without electricity after Superstorm Sandy in 2012, tens of thousands left in the cold by last winter’s polar vortex.

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Power generation increasingly resembles an extreme sport — is your utility company ready for the next round?

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Does Your Innovation Plan Make You Disruption-Ready?

Ariel Avitan Signals Intelligence Group
June 26, 2014
Can you create a bulletproof plan for innovation in a rapidly changing world? Most executives recognize that “planned, structured and repeatable processes” have enabled sustained and successful innovations at companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, P&G, and Nike.
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Elastic Cloud Will Put Your Global Supply Chain on Firm Footing

June 24, 2014

Imagine that you are in charge of the service center for a global energy infrastructure company. It’s Friday afternoon and you are ready to go home when you receive an urgent call from a customer. She needs a critical oil pump component within the next 12 hours or her business will lose millions of dollars. Concerned? Don’t panic.

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Survey: Companies ‘Disruption Ready’ as Anxiety Turns Into Action

June 16, 2014
A global shift is on. Executives are overwhelmingly embracing the idea that their companies must become “disruption ready” to remain competitive, according to the 2014 GE Global Innovation Barometer, which was unveiled today.
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Appetite for Disruption: Survey Finds Companies Keen on Fueling Innovation with Big Data

June 16, 2014
Blowout preventers, or BOPs, are massive machines that sit on the sea floor thousands of feet below the surface and serve as the last line of defense if something in an undersea oil well goes wrong. As a rule of thumb, workers will routinely replace as many as 20 percent of their parts to keep them safe, effectively rebuilding the entire machine every five years.
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Cloud Mine

GE Look Ahead
May 07, 2014
The Industrial Internet’s ability to connect disparate Internet-capable devices is still in its infancy. The potential for almost everything (from traffic lights to soap dispensers and more) to be outfitted with sensors has network builders scrambling to create the infrastructure to amass, process, store and retrieve both the raw and analysed Big Data that will eventually race through the system.
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Making Fracking More Efficient With Prescriptive Analytics

Atanu Basu Ayata
March 17, 2014
It’s difficult to make fracking more efficient and safer at the same time, but we can hedge our bets using the advanced data technologies of “prescriptive analytics.”
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Rail’s on a Roll With Big Data

Peter Thomas GE
March 13, 2014
Some may think trains are just steel wheels on steel rails, but freight rail is a rapidly evolving sector that is increasingly fitted with and connected to innovative 21st-century technology that keeps our economy moving.
As the industry takes its message to lawmakers today during “Railroad Day” on Capitol Hill, the industry is on a roll. Revenue is up 19 percent since 2009 to $80.6 billion, creating 10,000 new directly related jobs and countless other ancillary jobs. Some $21 billion in wages were paid last year alone, a $1 billion increase from the year before.
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