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Richard Benjamins

El Dr. Richard Benjamins es chief AI & data strategist en Telefónica. Durante su carrera profesional ha trabajado en el mundo académico, en distintas start-ups y en corporaciones multinacionales. Ha sido Chief Data Officer de AXA. Su pasión es crear valor a partir de los datos. Ha sido el fundador del área de Big Data for Social Good de Telefónica. Es cofundador y vicepresidente del Observatorio del Impacto Social y Ético de la Inteligencia Artificial, OdiseIA, y es miembro del grupo de expertos de la Comisión Europea sobre la compartición de datos entre empresas y gobiernos para el interés público. Es doctor en Ciencias Cognitivas por la Universidad de Ámsterdam y ha publicado más de 100 artículos científicos.

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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Artificial Intelligence: What even is that?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hottest topic out there at the moment, and often it is merely associated with chatbots such as Siri or other cognitive programs such as...

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Open Data and Business – a paradox?

While Open Data has a wide range of definitions, Wikipedia provides one of the most commonly accepted: “Open Data is the idea that some data should be freely available...

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Big Data and Elections: We shine a light on Trump and Clinton

Twitter is widely used as a tool to understand and predict phenomena in the real world. Today on our blog, we have been using Twitter to understand the US Presidential...

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Telco Data Analytics: what’s next in Big Data for Telcos

By Lora Mihova, Strategy Manager at LUCA and Richard Benjamins, Director External Positioning and Big Data for Social Good at LUCA. The European version of Telco Data Analytics Conference took place on...

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The 6 challenges of Big Data for Social Good

Many of us are familiar with the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations for 2030 and increasingly more and more companies and organizations are contributing to their achievement. However, there...

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Big Data Week 2016: Forget Big Data, Artificial Intelligence is the new kid on the block

Yesterday, the LUCA team attended the first day of Big Data Week. BDW is a global community that organizes an annual event focusing on the social, political, and technological...

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From Data Exhaust to Data-Driven: How CEOs face Big Data

Since Big Data became a buzzword in the board room of companies some years ago (thanks to McKinsey’s report “Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity”), many...