This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
|
Marcie Granahan,
NFAIS Executive Director
|
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is predicted to be a major disruptive technology for 2016. In this week’s issue of NFAIS Advances, check out 6 Predictions for Big Data Analytics, IEEE Computer Society Predicts Top 9 Technology Trends, New ‘AI-Enhanced’ Big Data Discovery Engine Aids Researchers, and Facebook’s open-sourcing of AI hardware is the start of the deep-learning revolution. Also check out this week’s NFAIS Community Forum, where I share more predictions.
The NFAIS Annual Conference, Data Sparks Discovery of Tomorrow’s Global Knowledge, Feb. 21 – 23, 2016 at the Hyatt Bellevue in Philadelphia, will explore data’s role in the future landscape of scholarly output, as well as the important role artificial intelligence and inter-operability will play in synthesizing the vast amounts of data soon to be available to scholarly researchers.
We hope you enjoy reading this week’s issue of NFAIS Advances! As always, feel free to share with colleagues and friends.
Marcie Granahan
Executive Director
NFAIS
Forbes
Big data analytics is the next trillion-dollar market, says Michael Dell. IDC has a more modest and specific prediction, forecasting the market for big data technology and services to grow at a 23.1 percent compound annual growth rate, reaching $48.6 billion in 2019.
READ MORE
ScienceBusiness
The European Commission has proposed a new regulation which would clear the way for researchers to perform text and data mining, as part of a broad update of European copyright rules. Under the proposed new rule tabled for early next year, researchers in Europe would have free rein to use computer programmes to search journals, a practice which is tightly controlled by publishers. To date, the UK is the only country that has exempted automated computer crawling from copyright law.
READ MORE
EdTech Insider
Smarter technologies are converging to make life easier for research scientists, and they could advance the rate of groundbreaking scientific studies. The latest computer-assisted scholarly research tool is Semantic Scholar, a free offering from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). When it launched, in October, it could comb through more than 3 million computer science research papers, with plans to add new subjects.
READ MORE
PRNewswire
The IEEE Computer Society today unveiled its Top 9 Technology Trends for 2016. According to Dejan Milojicic, past president, IEEE Computer Society, "Some of these trends will come to fruition in 2016, while others reach critical points in development during this year. You'll notice that all of the trends interlock, many of them depending on the advancement of other technologies in order to move forward. Cloud needs network functional virtualization, 5G requires cloud, containers can't thrive without advances in security, everything depends on data science, and so on. It's an exciting time for technology and IEEE Computer Society is on the leading edge of the most important and potentially disruptive technology trends."
READ MORE
ARS Technica
A few days ago, Facebook open-sourced its artificial intelligence (AI) hardware computing design. Most people don’t know that large companies such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon don’t buy hardware from the usual large computer suppliers like Dell, HP, and IBM but instead design their own hardware based on commodity components. The Facebook website and all its myriad apps and subsystems persist on a cloud infrastructure constructed from tens of thousands of computers designed from scratch by Facebook’s own hardware engineers.
READ MORE
ScienceNOW
A standoff between Dutch universities and publishing giant Elsevier is finally over. After more than a year of negotiations—and a threat to boycott Elsevier's 2500 journals—a deal has been struck: For no additional charge beyond subscription fees, 30 percent of research published by Dutch researchers in Elsevier journals will be open access by 2018.
READ MORE
TechRepublic
It's almost a joke at this point — data scientists are essentially janitors. The New York Times reported last year that data scientists spend anywhere from 50-80 percent of their time cleaning up data sets in order to find usable insights— the kinds of insights that can help businesses run more efficiently and provide better services.
READ MORE
EdTech Magazine
Hot on the heels of its acquisition of EMC, Dell is making strides into higher education analytics with its latest announcement. The computer manufacturer that's now positioned as a technology giant recently released the Dell Statistica Free Academic Program, a free version of its Statistica analytics software, in an effort to "boost interest and preparedness for data analytics careers," according to a news release.
READ MORE
Vox
In the early 1980s, there was growing concern about the quality of peer review at scientific journals. So two researchers at Cornell and the University of North Dakota decided to run a little experiment to test the process. The idea behind peer review is simple: It's supposed to weed out bad science.
READ MORE
Inside Higher Ed
As they have gained momentum over the past decade, the open access (OA) movement and its cousin, the Creative Commons licensing platform, have together done a tremendous amount of good in the world of scholarship and education, by making high-quality, peer-reviewed publications widely available both for reading and for reuse.
READ MORE
Times Higher Education
A critic of the research excellence framework (REF) who has asked whether it forces researchers to “adopt short-term horizons and a narrow focus” and chase “publication rather than following their own judgements” will lead a review into the exercise, the government has announced recently. Baron Stern of Brentford, president of the British Academy, will chair the review, set to report in the summer of 2016.
READ MORE
The National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health released the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2016–2020: Turning Discovery Into Health, which will ensure the agency remains well positioned to capitalize on new opportunities for scientific exploration and address new challenges for human health. Developed after hearing from hundreds of stakeholders and scientific advisers, and in collaboration with leadership and staff of NIH’s Institutes, Centers, and Offices, the plan is designed to complement the ICOs’ individual strategic plans that are aligned with their congressionally mandated missions.
READ MORE
NFAIS
SAGE and Expert System announced the release of SAGE Recommends, a new discovery capability within the SAGE Knowledge platform that provides users with links to related SAGE content to support academic research. Powered by Luxid® software, the feature uses SAGE's new proprietary social science taxonomy to reveal connections between content and concepts across disciplines.
READ MORE
NFAIS
The New York Public Library has named William P. Kelly — former interim chancellor of the City University of New York and president of the CUNY Graduate Center, and the current chairman of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation — its Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries.
READ MORE
NFAIS
Lunch & Learn: Customer Insight - The Right Tool for the Right Job
Date: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016
Time: 12 - 12:45 p.m. EST
NFAIS 2016 Annual Conference
Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016 1 p.m. - Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 2 p.m. EST
The NFAIS Career Center is the premier one-stop place for employers and job-seekers in the information services field to make the right connections. Click here to view all job opportunities or to post an open position.
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
