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George Lawton is a technology journalist that has been covering the technology industry for the last three decades. He is currently focused on digital transformation, enterprise automation, digital twins, privacy, and sustainable development. year He has written over 3,000 stories about computers, communications, knowledge management, business, health, and other areas. In the early 1990s, he helped build Biosphere II, sailed a Chinese Junk to Antarctica, and herded cattle on a 200,000-acre ranch in Australia.

Articles by George Lawton

Why agile engineering is as much a data management as a cultural challenge

Agile software development practices underpinning rapid digital innovation have thus far eluded makers of physical products. Thomas Von Tschammer, co-founder and managing director of Neural Concept, US, explains how similar progress requires rethinking data management practices to achieve real gains.

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Why hallucinating parking AI needs stronger governance

What happens when automated parking lot AI systems issue tickets based on hallucinated evidence? The current framework calls into question how these tools' broad adoption and limited oversight could erode trust in AI-powered automated decision-making across other domains as well.

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The new world of unstructured data and AI - how to build an unstructured data pipeline for gen AI

Applying gen AI to solve useful problems at scale requires a paradigm shift in how we think about data management and integration. Krishna Subramanian, COO and co-founder of Komprise, walks through these new challenges and what will be required to address them.

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What the IEEE spatial web standard means for embodied AI - teaching AI to see the world

Verses Founder and President Dan Mapes weighed in on the significance of the new IEEE P2874 draft standard for Spatial Web Protocol, Architecture and Governance. It promises to unify different world representations across the industrial metaverse, digital twins, and enterprise apps. It could also reduce hallucinations and improve the performance of new embodied AI approaches.

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