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Predictive analytics vs. AI: Why the difference matters

TechBeacon

There are few movie scenes I can recall from my childhood, but I vividly remember seeing the 1968 Stanley Kubrick sci-fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1970 with my older cousin. What stays with me to this day is the scene where astronaut Dave asks HAL, the homicidal computer based on artificial intelligence (AI), to open the pod bay doors.

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A history of tech adaptation for today’s changing business needs

CIO

The company has been on a continuous journey to adapt its internal and external processes to new business needs and opportunities since 2001.” Reporting standardization One of Ipsos’ latest digital transformation-related projects is the move of its reporting and analytics to a standard digital delivery platform.

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A Timeline of Big Data Analytics

CTOvision

In fact, it’s sometimes difficult to remember a time when businesses weren’t intensely focused on big data analytics. Consider the following to be a brief timeline of the big data analytics phenomenon. The mid-1950s were a time where data was beginning to be used for analytics purposes. Rick Delgado.

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How startups can shake up their first idea and still crush the market

TechCrunch

Metapa was in the Akamai space and as the markets cratered in 2001 for funding infrastructure projects, Scott Yara (the company’s founder) and team bought a small company called Didera and turned it into Greenplum, the first petabyte scale data warehouse built on top of open-source technology,” Sim told TechCrunch.

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Generative AI & data: Potential in cybersecurity if the risks can be curtailed

CIO

Back in 2001, as I was just entering the venture industry, I remember the typical VC reaction to a start-up pitch was, “Can’t Microsoft replicate your product with 20 people and a few months of effort, given the resources they have?” Artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 feels a bit like déjà vu to me.

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History of IBM DB2

The Crazy Programmer

After IBM bought Informix Software in 2001, Db2 was updated to integrate object-relational extensions, making it an object-SQL database management system. Informix was purchased by IBM in 2001, and many of its database features were included in the DB2 product range. Db2 Warehouse adapted as the volume and variety of data is increased.

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Tekever raises $23M for industrial drone technology optimized for maritime surveillance

TechCrunch

Tekever — based, fittingly, in historic maritime superpower Lisbon, Portugal — was founded back in 2001 and has only been offering commercial services since 2018. The objective is that you should be able to act before something bad happens,” and, because Tekever is also using predictive analytics, to preview what will come.