Richard Benjamins LUCA’s first 70 days We are almost at the end of 2016, which has been a big year for the world of Big Data. One important milestone was the creation of LUCA, Telefonica’s...
AI of Things LUCA’s First White Paper: Surviving the AI Hype LUCA has published its first white paper today entitled “Surviving the AI Hype – Fundamental concepts to understand Artificial Intelligence“. Written by Dr Richard Benjamins, this piece aims to...
AI of Things Our Christmas Lip Sync It’s been a busy few months since our LUCA launch in October, but finally the time has come to have a few days rest and enjoy the festive spirit....
AI of Things The refugee crisis and Syrian Civil War; a humanitarian issue reflected through data When we finish the year we always look to the past to weigh up the good and the bad moments of the year (trying to make the most of...
Richard Benjamins Can machines think? Or are humans machines? This is the last in a series of three post about some fundamental notions of AI. The objective of these series of three posts is to equip readers with...
AI of Things Where are people from Madrid going during the upcoming December holidays? During the early December bank holiday many of us take the opportunity to relax, discover new places or return to our countries of origin. This time, as a further...
AI of Things Marathon Commuters: Which nationalities spend most time travelling to and from work? Just 600 cities are projected to create more than 60% of global economic growth by 2025. Our reluctance to distribute population outside of these urban powerhouses has caused city...
Richard Benjamins How “intelligent” can Artificial Intelligence get? This post is the second in a series of three posts, each of which discuss the fundamental concepts of Artificial Intelligence. In our first post we discussed AI definitions,...
AI of Things Air Quality: How can Open Data and Mobile Data provide actionable insights? Today on our blog we’ve decided to take the mobility and traffic Big Data analysis we started here a little bit further, looking at the relationship between commuting and air...
Ana Zamora #LanzamosLUCA: Dave Sweeney on using Mobile Data to disrupt Transport and Tourism This week we share the launch presentation of Dave Sweeney, our Commercial Lead for Public and Transport sectors in the UK. Dave told us all about about how mobile...
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Dark Markets in the internet age What are Dark Markets or Black Markets? This concept has been in the news for a long time as a consequence of clandestine sales. The markets for drugs and...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Artificial Intelligence understand emotions? When John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded Artificial Intelligence in 1956, they were amazed how a machine could perform incredibly difficult puzzles quicker than humans. However, it turns out...
Alexandre Maravilla Web3 and the evolution of Internet Identity The recent rise of Web3; the new evolution of the Internet to make it decentralised through Blockchain, is also bringing a lot of talk about decentralised identity schemes and...
AI of Things 5 AI uses in Photography On our blog, we enjoy sharing the applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in sectors that may surprise you. Previously, in “Dining with Data” we saw how customers...
AI of Things Coca-Cola’s use of AI to stay at the top of the drinks market Coca-Cola is the largest beverage company in the world serving over 1.9 billion drinks daily across its 500 brands. Being such a large conglomerate active in so many countries...
