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A Common Language for the Internet of Things

Posted by | Jul 13, 2014

The Open Interconnect Consortium, a group of big tech companies including Intel, Samsung, and Dell, announced last week their intention to create and open-source a specification for connecting the billions of things that make up the Internet of Things. This is the sole purpose of this consortium, and they’re starting with smart homes, smart offices, and smart cars. Their mission is to define “the specification, certification, and branding to deliver reliable interoperability” between all wireless-enabled devices across all operating systems: Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and so on. In other words, if your smart watch and your smart television can...

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Why (Good) Journalists Have Nothing to Fear from Automated Content

Posted by | May 12, 2014

On Friday, May 30th, I’ll be speaking at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University at the Quantifying Journalism: Metrics, Data and Computation Conference. I’ll be talking about the Robot Reporter trend, based on the four years of work I’ve done creating over 100 million automated stories via Automated Insights. 100 million stories, each one unique and professionally written, covering everything from news to finance to sports to marketing and beyond. In fact, by the time 2014 is over, Ai will have produced over 1 billion automated articles. And what I plan to tell the gathered Columbia...

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