Recent Posts by Joanne Chu

With data now easier to collect and analyze than ever before, companies are recognizing the business value of such information — and the need to tap into it quickly. Enter the chief data officer (CDO), the newest role in the C-suite that is responsible for defining and putting into place a data management strategy. According to Gartner, it’s estimated that 90% of large global organizations will have a CDO by 2019, but only 50% will be considered a success. That gap can be...

The human brain is, as neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D., says in The Emotional Brain (1996), "the most sophisticated machine imaginable, or unimaginable." It’s no wonder, as the brain is composed of more than 100 billion neurons and approximately 1 quadrillion neuron connections altogether. Perhaps it’s this endless world of possibilities that inspires the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a part of computer science that focuses on machines imitating intelligent human...