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Enzo Brocato

How a Database of the World's Knowledge Shapes Google's Future - 1 views

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    http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523846/how-a-database-of-the-worlds-knowledge-shapes-googles-future/ Compiling a giant database of all the facts in the world could help Google's future products understand you better. For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years. That's why in 2010 Google acquired Metaweb, a company building a database intended to give computers the ability to understand the world. Two years later the company's technology resurfaced as the Knowledge Graph (see "Corliss Tech Review Group: http://thecorlissreviewgroup.com/"). John Giannandrea, vice president of engineering at Google and a Metaweb cofounder, says that will lead to Google's future products being able to truly understand the people who use them and the things they care about. He told MIT Technology Review's Tom Simonite how a data store designed to link together all the knowledge on Earth might do that. What is the Knowledge Graph? It's a distillation of what Google knows about the world. An analogy I often use is maps. For a maps product you have to build a database of the real world and know there are things called streets, rivers, and countries in the physical world. That's creating a symbolic structure for the physical world; the Knowledge Graph does that for the world of ideas and common sense. We have entities in the knowledge graph for foods, recipes, products, ideas in philosophy or history, and famous people. We can have relationships between them, so we can say these two people are married or this place is in this country or we can say this movie is related to this person. How does that make a difference to Google's Web search? We've gone up a level from just talking about the words to talking about what the thing actually is. In crawling and indexing documents we can now have an understanding of what the document is about. If the docum
Queeniey Corliss

The Corliss Group Latest Tech Review: Mobile malware and operating system vulnerabilities - 1 views

9% of large organisations face security, hacking, phishing scams and internet fraud in mobile devices Industry experts to share insights helping businesses defend from cyberattacks during security ...

Corliss Group Latest Tech Review Mobile malware and operating system vulnerabilities come under the spotlight at GISEC 2014

started by Queeniey Corliss on 06 Jun 14 no follow-up yet
Grace Wilson

The Corliss Group Review: What Consumer Electronics Show has in Store for the Future - 1 views

Here is a short Q&A that provides an overview of Consumer Electronics Show: Q: What is the Consumer Electronics Show all about? A: The Consumer Electronics Show aims to serve as a launching...

Corliss Group Review: What Consumer Electronics Show has in Store for the Future

started by Grace Wilson on 20 May 14 no follow-up yet
Dhine Ticalz

The Corliss Group Review on Sierra Nevada Corporation Completes Critical Wind Tunnel Tests - 1 views

Sierra Nevada Corporation Completes Critical Wind Tunnel Tests for its Dream Chaser® Spacecraft - Passes NASA CCiCap Program Milestone - Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announces the successful...

The Corliss Group Review on Sierra Nevada Corporation Completes Critical Wind Tunnel Tests

started by Dhine Ticalz on 22 May 14 no follow-up yet
Franchezca Mindaine

The Corliss Group Review on Research and Markets: Global Anti-money Laundering (AML) So... - 1 views

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/gzs68x/global_antimoney) has announced the addition of the "Global Anti-money Laundering (AML) Software Market 2014-2018 with Fiserv...

The Corliss Group Review on Research and Markets: Global Anti-money Laundering (AML) Software Market 2014-2018 with Fiserv

started by Franchezca Mindaine on 23 May 14 no follow-up yet
chelsearton

The Corliss Group: White House Cybersecurity Event to Draw Top Tech, Wall Street Execs - 1 views

Government to Call on Companies to Help Improve Information Sharing as Breaches Get More Sophisticated President Barack Obama will convene top executives from Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and a nu...

The Corliss Group Latest Tech Review White House Cybersecurity Event to Draw Top Wall Street Execs

started by chelsearton on 13 Feb 15 no follow-up yet
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