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5 Questions with Michael Atkin

5 Questions with Michael Atkin

1. Tell us about yourself. I have a strange and sordid history. I’ve been an analyst and advocate for data management since 1985. I started with publishers–the owners of intellectual property–as they discovered concepts associated with the principles of data management. After publishing, I concentrated my efforts on the financial industry, learning how data goes…

Geo Graphs in Gov

Geo Graphs in Gov

When it comes to early-adopters for AI technology, US federal government agencies may not be the first examples that come to mind. My perspective is skewed since my first full-time jobs using email, internetworking, data visualization, inference, etc., were in the US Army and NASA in the 1980s. Since then I’ve had other roles in…

Focus: KGs for Food

Focus: KGs for Food

Dan Barber, the James Beard award-winning chef who pioneered the farm-to-table movement, has a single, elegant term for the complexity of molecules, processes, and sequences that underpins great food: flavor. Like great chefs, computer scientists grapple with complexity, seeking elegant ways to model and analyze increasingly complex–or perhaps, flavorful–phenomena.  Across many business verticals, we are…

5 Questions with Oshani Seneviratne

5 Questions with Oshani Seneviratne

Healthier eating for diabetics with the RPI + IBM Food KG Tell us about your project. The food knowledge graph (or foodkg) is a joint project between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM (part of the IBM AI Horizons Network). The project’s official name is “Health Empowerment through Analytics Learning and Semantics”, or HEALS. We researched…

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