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A Honeywell Monitoring Story
By Craig Lowell
Service providers have long been lauded for a willingness to ‘eat their own
dog food,’ i.e. to use their own products or services for internal
operations and/or development.
For Catchpoint, that means that we use our own digital experience monitoring
platform to ensure that the platform itself is running optimally. Regular
tests of our own infrastructure ensure that our customers are not being
hampered by performance issues on our end.
For a commercial enterprise company like Honeywell, which manufactures
thousands of different products from aircraft engines and avionics to home
appliances, eating their own dog food is a much more daunting challenge, and
difficult to accomplish without some outside help.
Such was the case when Honeywell CEO David M. Cote notified his team of a
problem with excessively slow WiFi speeds on ... (more)
I recently had the opportunity to give a 10-minute keynote at DataWorks
Summit 2017. I know what most of you are thinking: Schmarzo can barely
introduce himself in 10 minutes! What sort of keynote could he give in just
10 minutes? And to be honest, I too struggled with what to say.
But after some brainstorming with my marketing experts (Jeff Abbott, Erin
Banks, and Chris Hill), we came up with an idea: Pose five questions that
every organization needs to consider as they prepare themselves for digital
transformation. And while I didn’t have enough time in 10 minutes to
answer those questions in a keynote, I certainly do in a blog!
So here we go!!
Question #1: How effective is your organization at leveraging data and
analytics to power your business model?
The Big Data Business Model Maturity Index was developed to help
organizations to measure or benchmark their... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software
development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud
Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile
apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and
enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate
engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with
over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers
in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development.
The company's main focus is saving the time and efforts of clients by
providing full-cycle product development, offering dedicated project teams
for long-term collaborations... (more)
Conversational Things - How Ambient Devices and Frictionless Engagement Are
Transforming Our Lives
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A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely
far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll
need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily
and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of
our lives.
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Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can
literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with
embedded artificial intelligence, which can process our conversational
commands and orchestrate the outcomes we request across our personal and
professional realm of co... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Technologic Systems Inc., an embedded
systems solutions company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will
take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Technologic Systems is an embedded systems company with headquarters in
Fountain Hills, Arizona. They have been in business for 32 years, helping
more than 8,000 OEM customers and building over a hundred COTS products that
have never been discontinued. Technologic Systems' product base consists of a
wide variety of off-the-shelf PC/104 single board computers,
computer-on-modules, touch panel computers, peripherals and industrial
controllers. They also offer custom configurations and design services.
Technologic Systems specializes in the ARM and X86 architectures, FPGA
IP-core design, and open-source software support based on Linux, Android, and... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Pulzze Systems will exhibit at 21st
International Cloud Expo which will take place October 31 - November 2, 2017
at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. For more
information, visit http://www.interactor.com.
Pulzze Systems, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley
creating new ways to build smart solutions using any device and service.
"We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different
devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do
that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can
integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol,"
explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this
SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa
Clara Convention Center... (more)
Matrix is an ambitious new open standard for open, distributed, real-time
communication over IP.
It defines a new approach for interoperable Instant Messaging and VoIP based
on pragmatic HTTP APIs and WebRTC, and provides open source reference
implementations to showcase and bootstrap the new standard.
Matrix.org's focus is on simplicity, security, and supporting the fullest
feature set.
For more information, visit http://matrix.org/.
Matrix: The Missing Signaling Layer for WebRTC?
WebRTC defines no default signaling protocol, causing fragmentation between
WebRTC silos. SIP and XMPP provide possibilities, but come with considerable
complexity and are not designed for use in a web environment.
In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Matthew Hodgson, technical
co-founder of the Matrix.org, will discuss how Matrix is a new non-profit
Open Source Project that define... (more)
In his keynote at @ThingsExpo, Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at
Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, focused on building an IoT platform
and company. He provided a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu's platform,
business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix acquisition of
Octoblu).
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Speaker Bio:
Chris Matthieu is the co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, a revolutionary
real-time IoT platform recently acquired by Citrix. Octoblu connects things,
systems, people and clouds to a global mesh network allowing users to
automate and control design flows, processes and sensor data, and
analyze/react to real-time events and messages as well as big data trends and
anomalies.
Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was the founder of Nodester, an
open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and the founder of
Teleku, ... (more)
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017at Javits Center, New
York City, is co-located with the 20th International @CloudExpo and will
feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world. @ThingsExpo New York Call for Papers
is now open.
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
@CloudExpo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and
enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices -
computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by
2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several
... (more)
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Context, Wearables, and WebRTC: Communications Next
Big Data, cloud, analytics, contextual information, wearable tech, sensors,
mobility, and WebRTC: together, these advances have created a perfect storm
of technologies that are disrupting and transforming classic communications
models and ecosystems.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Erik Perotti, Senior Manager of New Ventures
on Plantronics' Innovation team, provided an overview of this technological
shift, including associated business and consumer communications impacts, and
opportunities it may enable, complement or entirely transform.
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Speaker Bio
Erik Perotti is Senior Manager of New Ventures on Plantronics' Innovation
team. His core mission is the ongoing analysis and evolution of online user
eng... (more)
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Beware of the Dark Side of Personalized Customer Experiences via the Internet
of Things
Personalization has long been the holy grail of marketing. Simply stated,
communicate the most relevant offer to the right person and you will increase
sales. To achieve this, you must understand the individual. Consequently,
digital marketers developed many ways to gather and leverage customer
information to deliver targeted experiences.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Lou Casal, Founder and Principal Consultant at
Practicala, discussed how the Internet of Things (IoT) has accelerated our
ability to monitor behavior, gather even more customer data and potentially
deliver outstanding experiences. Regrettably, as history demonstrates, there
are countless examples of how this can go terribly wrong... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CAST Software will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CAST was founded more than 25 years ago to make the invisible visible. Built around the idea that even the best analytics on the market still leave blind spots for technical teams looking to deliver better software and prevent outages, CAST provides the software intelligence that matter ... Aug. 23, 2017 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 342 | By Elizabeth White  Everything run by electricity will eventually be connected to the Internet. Get ahead of the Internet of Things revolution and join Akvelon expert and IoT industry leader, Sergey Grebnov, in his session at @ThingsExpo, for an educational dive into the world of managing your home, workplace and all the devices they contain with the power of machine-based AI and intelligent Bot services for a completely streamlined experience. Aug. 23, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,475 | By Elizabeth White  Because IoT devices are deployed in mission-critical environments more than ever before, it’s increasingly imperative they be truly smart. IoT sensors simply stockpiling data isn’t useful. IoT must be artificially and naturally intelligent in order to provide more value
In his session at @ThingsExpo, John Crupi, Vice President and Engineering System Architect at Greenwave Systems, will discuss how IoT artificial intelligence (AI) can be carried out via edge analytics and machine learning techn... Aug. 23, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,427 | By Pat Romanski  As businesses adopt functionalities in cloud computing, it’s imperative that IT operations consistently ensure cloud systems work correctly – all of the time, and to their best capabilities. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Bernd Harzog, CEO and founder of OpsDataStore, presented an industry answer to the common question, “Are you running IT operations as efficiently and as cost effectively as you need to?” He then expounded on the industry issues he frequently came up against as an analyst, and ... Aug. 23, 2017 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,963 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Datera, that offers a radically new data management architecture, has been named "Exhibitor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo ®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Datera is transforming the traditional datacenter model through modern cloud simplicity.
The technology industry is at another major inflection point. The rise of mobile, the Internet of Things, data storage and Big... Aug. 23, 2017 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,197 | By Elizabeth White  FinTechs use the cloud to operate at the speed and scale of digital financial activity, but are often hindered by the complexity of managing security and compliance in the cloud. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sesh Murthy, co-founder and CTO of Cloud Raxak, showed how proactive and automated cloud security enables FinTechs to leverage the cloud to achieve their business goals. Through business-driven cloud security, FinTechs can speed time-to-market, diminish risk and costs, maintain continu... Aug. 23, 2017 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,188 | By Liz McMillan  As more and more companies are making the shift from on-premises to public cloud, the standard approach to DevOps is evolving. From encryption, compliance and regulations like GDPR, security in the cloud has become a hot topic. Many DevOps-focused companies have hired dedicated staff to fulfill these requirements, often creating further siloes, complexity and cost. This session aims to highlight existing DevOps cultural approaches, tooling and how security can be wrapped in every facet of the bu... Aug. 23, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 666 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business - from apparel to energy - is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the applic... Aug. 23, 2017 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,348 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Pulzze Systems will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Pulzze Systems Inc, provides the software product "The Interactor" that uniquely simplifies building IoT, Web and Smart Enterprise Solutions. It is a Silicon Valley startup funded by US government agencies, NSF and DHS to bring innovative solutions to market. Aug. 23, 2017 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 279 | By Pat Romanski  As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that’s no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, will explore how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He wi... Aug. 23, 2017 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,953 | By Liz McMillan  Businesses and business units of all sizes can benefit from cloud computing, but many don't want the cost, performance and security concerns of public cloud nor the complexity of building their own private clouds. Today, some cloud vendors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify cloud deployment and management. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ajay Gulati, Co-founder and CEO of ZeroStack, discussed how AI can simplify cloud operations. He covered the following topics: why cloud mana... Aug. 23, 2017 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 383 | By Pat Romanski  From 2013, NTT Communications has been providing cPaaS service, SkyWay. Its customer’s expectations for leveraging WebRTC technology are not only typical real-time communication use cases such as Web conference, remote education, but also IoT use cases such as remote camera monitoring, smart-glass, and robotic. Because of this, NTT Communications has numerous IoT business use-cases that its customers are developing on top of PaaS. WebRTC will lead IoT businesses to be more innovative and address... Aug. 23, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,308 | By Elizabeth White  Blockchain is a shared, secure record of exchange that establishes trust, accountability and transparency across business networks. Supported by the Linux Foundation's open source, open-standards based Hyperledger Project, Blockchain has the potential to improve regulatory compliance, reduce cost as well as advance trade. Are you curious about how Blockchain is built for business? In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, will discuss th... Aug. 23, 2017 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,644 | By Elizabeth White  While some vendors scramble to create and sell you a fancy solution for monitoring your spanking new Amazon Lambdas, hear how you can do it on the cheap using just built-in Java APIs yourself. By exploiting a little-known fact that Lambdas aren’t exactly single-threaded, you can effectively identify hot spots in your serverless code. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Dave Martin, Product owner at CA Technologies, will give a live demonstration and code walkthrough, showing how ... Aug. 23, 2017 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,575 | By Elizabeth White  WebRTC is great technology to build your own communication tools. It will be even more exciting experience it with advanced devices, such as a 360 Camera, 360 microphone, and a depth sensor camera.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Masashi Ganeko, a manager at INFOCOM Corporation, will introduce two experimental projects from his team and what they learned from them.
"Shotoku Tamago" uses the robot audition software HARK to track speakers in 360 video of a remote party. "Virtual Teleport" uses a... Aug. 23, 2017 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 862 | By Elizabeth White  Translating agile methodology into real-world best practices within the modern software factory has driven widespread DevOps adoption, yet much work remains to expand workflows and tooling across the enterprise. As models evolve from pockets of experimentation into wholescale organizational reinvention, practitioners find themselves challenged to incorporate the culture and architecture necessary to support DevOps at scale. Aug. 23, 2017 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 398 | By Pat Romanski  When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be... Aug. 23, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,105 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business – from apparel to energy – is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the applic... Aug. 23, 2017 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 517 | By Liz McMillan  yperConvergence came to market with the objective of being simple, flexible and to help drive down operating expenses. It reduced the footprint by bundling the compute/storage/network into one box. This brought a new set of challenges as the HyperConverged vendors are very focused on their own proprietary building blocks. If you want to scale in a certain way, let’s say you identified a need for more storage and want to add a device that is not sold by the HyperConverged vendor, forget about it.... Aug. 23, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,003 | By Pat Romanski  With Cloud Foundry you can easily deploy and use apps utilizing websocket technology, but not everybody realizes that scaling them out is not that trivial. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Roman Swoszowski, CTO and VP, Cloud Foundry Services, at Grape Up, will show you an example of how to deal with this issue. He will demonstrate a cloud-native Spring Boot app running in Cloud Foundry and communicating with clients over websocket protocol that can be easily scaled horizontally and coordinate... Aug. 23, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,232 |
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Chatbots are the next big thing, but there’s always another big thing coming. Prepare for the future with a flexible architecture that’s ready for everything.
Chatbots are growing rapidly in popularity and adoption, but while more and more organizations are beginning to see the potential, far fewer have developed a concrete strategy for them. Major companies are experimenting with the AI behind chatbots though (with varying degrees of success, such as Microsoft’s Tay.ai and Facebook’s recent conversing bots), and it’s easy to find coverage about the promising future of chatbots and enthusiast...
The renowned military strategist John Boyd taught that people and institutions collect favorite philosophies, strategies, theories and ideologies over a period of time, and then try to align the future to fit them. The problem with this is the future is rarely like the past, and trying to fit new data into old paradigms often forces us to perform irrational mental gymnastics, which leaves us farther from the truth.
“You can’t stop the incessant march of economics” – Bill Schmarzo
Okay, so it’s probably not cool to quote oneself, but hey, this is my blog and I get to do what I want. And for anyone who follows me knows, I love to “riff” on the game-changing power of economics. The “economics of big data” – where the cost to store, manage and analyze data is 20x to 100x cheaper than traditional analytics – started this big data and data science craze. But ultimately it is the economics of value, or to be specific, “value in use” where the economics really become a game changer....
In recent years AI has grown significantly and become a substantial area of business investment. What has changed, and how does this affect you?
For a long time, artificial intelligence was pure science fiction, relegated to books, television and movies—and you don’t need us to tell you that we are well past that point today. In the last few years we have seen extremely rapid advancement in a series of technologies that have come together to unlock a wave of AI investment. According to Accenture, 85% of executives plan to invest extensively in AI in the next three years, and in the same tim...
Fast-paced changes in the business landscape demand enterprises to rethink their existing business models and add innovative capabilities keeping in mind the new imperatives. One among them is the focus on Digital transformation. In the retail industry, growth is measured in terms of increased sales and value addition to existing products while keeping customer expectations in mind. This is where a digital focus is important to remain competitive.
With the wave of personal assistants, such as Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant, and new startups leveraging AI and analytics to build personal companions, it’s becoming clear we are moving toward a new voice-controlled relationship with technology. As we have already seen in the consumer market, it is all but a given that these voice-activation systems will eventually make it into the enterprise environment, as the potential benefits of these systems could be tremendous in simplifying and automating activities. Although it may be a long time before we see the full likenesses of “HAL” from “2...
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Robert Cohen, an economist and senior fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, presented the findings of a series of six detailed case studies of how large corporations are implementing IoT. The session explored how IoT has improved their economic performance, had major impacts on business models and resulted in impressive ROIs. The companies covered span manufacturing and services firms. He also explored servicification, how manufacturing firms shift from selling a product to offering it as a service and discussed methods you can employ to estimate how inv...
We all probably remember the movie (“Jurassic Park”), even if we don’t remember this exact scene: Dr. Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum is explaining Chaos Theory to Dr. Ellie Sattler, played by Laura Dern.
Dr. Malcolm is explaining how random, seemingly negligible events can disrupt even the most carefully laid out plans.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [after the T-Rex failed to appear for the tour group]. “You see a Tyrannosaur doesn’t follow a set pattern or park schedules, the essence of chaos.”
Like me, I’m sure that many of you nerds have read the book “I, Robot.” “I, Robot” is the seminal book written by Isaac Asimov (actually it was a series of books, but I only read the one) that explores the moral and ethical challenges posed by a world dominated by robots.
But I read that book like 50 years ago, so the movie “I, Robot” with Will Smith is actually more relevant to me today. The movie does a nice job of discussing the ethical and moral challenges associated with a society where robots play such a dominant and crucial role in everyday life.
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be looking at some significant engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables deve...
Increasingly, in a world of compressed times and distances, humans will be the inventors, designers and managers of digital systems and processes, rather than the operators. Operations will be measured in milliseconds, an inhumane speed where only the machines can deliver.
Professor Paul Virilio, a philosopher of speed, urbanist and cultural theorist, wrote at length about the impact of speed on society. He wrote that speed compresses both time and distance. Where once it took a letter 6 months to get to the other side of the world, an email can now arrive in seconds. Today's near real-tim...
API Security has finally entered our security zeitgeist. OWASP Top 10 2017 - RC1 recognized API Security as a first class citizen by adding it as number 10, or A-10 on its list of web application vulnerabilities. We believe this is just the start. The attack surface area offered by API is orders or magnitude larger than any other attack surface area. Consider the fact the APIs expose cloud services, internal databases, application and even legacy mainframes over the internet. What could go wrong?
In the blog “From Autonomous to Smart: Importance of Artificial Intelligence,” we discussed the two critical artificial intelligence (AI) challenges in creating “smart” edge devices: Artificial Intelligence Challenge #1: How do the Artificial Intelligence algorithms handle the unexpected, such as flash flooding, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, tornadoes, police car chases, emergency vehicles, blown tires, a child chasing a ball into the street, etc.?
Internet-of-Things discussions can end up either going down the consumer gadget rabbit hole or focused on the sort of data logging that industrial manufacturers have been doing forever. However, in fact, companies today are already using IoT data both to optimize their operational technology and to improve the experience of customer interactions in novel ways. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Gordon Haff, Red Hat Technology Evangelist, shared examples from a wide range of industries – including energy, transportation, and retail – of using IoT to create new business opportunities and improve eff...
Any significant business process that can be documented and best practices identified - will be. Any defined process that can be standardized - will be. Standardized processes that can be codified and automated (through robotic software automation), will be - if the volume justifies it. If the process is repeatable across many companies it will be offered as a shared service on a platform in a cloud.
As today's digital disruptions bounce and smash their way through conventional technologies and conventional wisdom alike, predicting their path is a multifaceted challenge. So many areas of technology advance on Moore's Law-like exponential curves that divining the future is fraught with danger. Such is the problem with artificial intelligence (AI), and its related concepts, including cognitive computing, machine learning, and deep learning.
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