Tag: Big Data
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The Role of AI in Making Shipping Safer, Smarter, and More Sustainable
I’m excited to share the latest episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast with you. This week, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ami Daniel, the co-founder and CEO of Windward, a company that provides maritime data and analytics to the supply chain industry. During the episode, Ami shared some fascinating insights into how…
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Ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Things, and the discovery of sound
I had a really interesting, wide-ranging, conversation with SalesForce’s VP for Strategic Research, Peter Coffee the other day. A lot of our conversation revolved around how recent changes in the Internet of Things space, in ubiquitous computing, and in Big Data and analytics area are enabling profound effects on how we interact with the world.…
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Here comes the sun… IBM and solar forecasting
For decades now electricity grids have been architected in the same way with large centralised generation facilities pumping out electricity to large numbers of distributed consumers. Generation has been controlled, and predictable. This model is breaking down fast. In the last decade we have seen a massive upsurge in the amount of renewable generation making…
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Microsoft, big data and smarter buildings
If you checked out the New York Times Snow Fall site (the story of the Avalanche at Tunnel Creek), then Microsoft’s new 88 Acres site will look familiar. If you haven’t seen the Snow Fall site then go check it out, it is a beautiful and sensitive telling of a tragic story. You won’t regret…
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SAP’s Sustainability announcements at Sapphire Now
SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe at Sapphire Now 2012 Technology innovation plays a major part in creating a sustainable world tomorrow So said SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe at this year’s SAP Sapphire Now conference in Orlando. He then went on to predict three major trends in computing for the coming years – according to…