LUCA Responsible data usage for effective advertising Written by Liao Yin Tung Recently The Economist stated that “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data”. With the rise of mobile technology, traditional advertising has unsurprisingly...
LUCA Elena Gil, CEO of LUCA speaks to us about the potential of Big Data in business “We are just beginning to see the opportunities that Big Data represents” The importance of data when making any decision is growing. Elena Gil, CEO at LUCA, Telefonica’s data unit,...
Beatriz Sanz Baños An IoT that deserves an Oscar Connectivity has reached the film industry. The use of drones, virtual reality or beacon technology offers spectators the possibility of enjoying a much more complete audiovisual experience.
Beatriz Sanz Baños The End of Internet as we know it This post is part one of a two post series that will explore how communications are not only affected by the paradigm shift of connecting everything but a driving...
ElevenPaths The base rate fallacy or why antiviruses, antispam filters and detection probes work worse than what is actually promised Before starting your workday, while your savoring your morning coffee, you open your favorite cybersecurity newsletter and an advertisement on a new Intrusion Detection System catches your attention: THIS IDS...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths and BitSight deliver enhanced visibility into supply chain risk with continuous monitoring Security Ratings Market Leader Expands Global Reach with New Strategic Alliance CAMBRIDGE, MA—June 13, 2017. ElevenPaths, Telefónica Cibersecurity Unit specialized in the development of innovative security solution, and BitSight, the Standard...
Richard Benjamins. Towards a new Big Data ecosystem to mitigate Climate Change Big Data can be used to help fight Climate Change [1],[2],[3]. Several projects have analysed huge amounts of satellite, weather and climate data to come up with ways to...
Richard Benjamins. The RAE launches LEIA with Telefónica, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook Last Friday, Chema Alonso and I had the opportunity to attend the closing session of the 16th Congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE) in Seville organised...
Richard Benjamins. Artificial Intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises We hear of increasingly more applications of Artificial Intelligence ranging from improved medical diagnosis to autonomous vehicles to automatic translation to voice recognition. But when we look at the...
Richard Benjamins. Is your AI system discriminating without knowing it?: The paradox between fairness and privacy This post assumes that readers are aware of the good things that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring to our businesses, societies and lives. And also about the most evident challenges that...
Richard Benjamins. Artificial Intelligence for warfare or for maintaining peace On July 3, 2019, I attended an event organized by the Spanish Center for National Defense Studies (CESEDEN) and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) on the impact of AI...
Richard Benjamins. London AI Summit 2019 The London AI Summit attracted thousands of visitors; so many more than when AI was still a niche thing in the 90-ies. As always with such big events, it was a...
Richard Benjamins. How to measure your data maturity? Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become very popular these days, and many organizations have started their data journey to become more data-driven and take automated, intelligent decisions....
Richard Benjamins. Artificial Intelligence – Five Fears Explained While there are many great applications of Artificial Intelligence, a disproportionate amount of attention is given to concerns about AI such as robots taking over control, losing our jobs, malicious...
Richard Benjamins. How to fund your data journey As of 2018, most large multinationals have started their journey to become a more data-driven organization, usually as part of their digital transformation. For most of them, it is...
Richard Benjamins. How to select AI and Big Data use cases? Many organizations that start working with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) ask themselves the question: where to start? In general, there are two ways to start: 1) start...
Olivia Brookhouse Would you let Artificial Intelligence run Christmas? Artificial Intelligence and Big Data are transforming the workplace, providing real time insights to optimize decision making. Meanwhile at home, AI embedded home devices and online applications can accurately...
Stefan Leadbeater 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...
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
ElevenPaths The Confirmation Bias: we seek the information that confirms our decisions, refusing their opposed evidences Imagine yourself in a lab over an experiment. You’re asked to analyze the following number sequence: 2, 4, 6 This sequence follows a rule. What do you think the rule is?...
LUCA How the fashion industry is applying Big Data and AI Season after season, retailers come up with loads of new products ready to hit shelves worldwide. While at one time, designers had no idea what their customers would like...
