Written by Alexander Raginsky Wells Fargo’s recent International Business Indicator Survey indicated that 69 percent of businesses in the U.S. are conducting business internationally and 54 percent of mid-size U.S. businesses see international markets as increasingly important to their financial success. But where does that leave startups and early-stage companies? Setting the startup stage We can all appreciate the
Written by Alexander Raginsky Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps. The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend to underestimate the bottlenecks to progress that must be overcome with hard work and practical engineering. The field known as “big data” offers a contemporary case study. The catchphrase stands for the modern abundance of digital data from many sources
Written by Alexander Raginsky Thanks to a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the US National Institutes of Health, we are able to provide a small number of travel fellowships for US participants in BioCreative 2015. Students, post-doctoral fellows, women, and participants from under-represented minorities are encouraged to apply. Please note that applying for a
Written by Alexander Raginsky AlchemyAPI sells text analysis and computer vision capabilities that can be integrated into application, services, and data systems via a SaaS API. But I don’t believe you’ll find the words “cognitive computing” on AlchemyAPI‘s Web site. So where’s the fit? What gap was IBM seeking to fill? For an IBM description of Watson cognitive computing,
