Google’s announcement of the acquisition of Looker shows they are strengthening (adding…) business intelligence to the Google Cloud portfolio. I discuss it in my latest forbes.com article.

My latest article describes how synthetic data can be used to enrich the data sets used for training of deep learning systems.

CGS published a survey that included interesting information on chatbots. My take is in my forbe.com article.

SAP Analytics Cloud has announced new features including enhanced NLP and machine learning capabilities. I’ve published an article about it on forbes.com.

Because bitcoin was the advent of blockchain, the technology has been too tied to cryptocurrency. At a recent, local, conference, the beginning of the split was seen, as a number of companies were looking at blockchain for other business use cases. My recent forbes.com article is a quick overview of what I saw at that conference.

One of the key advantages of machine learning is the ability to quickly look at large volumes of data and identify transactions and other events that don’t fit the expected patterns. That’s important for more than only network management. Fraud detection, advertising effectiveness and other analysis benefit from anomaly detection. My latest forbes.com column discusses the basics.

Diffbot published a short report that led me to my latest article.

After annoying delays, my latest Tech Target article is up. It covers two companies I met at this summer’s Think Big Festival in Couer d’Alene. Wilkinson Baking Company builds a robotic bread maker that fits in grocery stores and Misty Robotics provides a robot and software environment to help teach robotics and build applications.

InspireID is a great partnership between the University of Idaho, Coeur d’Alene, Apple and the Innovation Collective to bring programming to more rural areas and to people who need an alternative to the full time, university system. Read about it in my latest forbes.com column.

A short overview of the subject on Forbes.