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Prediction: Self-Driving Car Manufacturers Will Own The Car Insurance Business image

Written by Bernard Fraenkel, Enterprise Practice Lead at Silicon Valley Software Group. Can you picture the day when your car insurance bill drops every month? This could very well happen as self-driving car manufacturers (SDCMs) take over the car insurance business. As it turns out, SDCMs have several powerful incentives to do so. Their primary motivation is to remove an adoption barrier to ...

What Major Tech Stocks Are Worth Buying In The Second Half Of 2018? image

Matt Swanson, SVSG managing partner, and Bruderman Brothers Vice Chairman Oliver Pursche, discuss whether the major tech stocks are still worth buying in the second half of the year. Too high, too expensive, or too fast? The Fab Four, better known as the FANG stocks, Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) are visibly resilient to ...

What do we want in a Smart City? standard

As companies throughout the U.S. and the world race to develop new technology to make life in cities safer and easier, the attitudes of the people living in those cities ebb and flow with the headlines. Data collection, autonomous vehicles, smart city infrastructure—ideas like these often toe the line between utopian and dystopian future ideals. We are fortunate to be ...

TechTarget interviews Bernard Fraenkel on why data managers should study up on GPU deep learning standard

As GPU deep learning becomes more common, data managers will have to navigate several new layers of complexity in their quest to build or buy suitable data infrastructure. AI-related deep learning and machine learning techniques have become a common area of discussion in big data circles. The trend is something for data managers to keep an eye on for a ...

Inc. Magazine puts SVSG as #1 of the top 5 growing consulting firms evolving to modernize companies standard

Last year, the global consulting market was worth more than $250 billion, with one company alone making $37 billion. Some companies shy away from pulling on consultancies, reasoning that they should be able to solve their problems internally or that consultants will have conflicts of interest that won’t play out in their favor. But the continued rate of use of these consultancies indicates ...

December 5, 2017
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For Machine Learning, It’s All About GPUs image

Isn’t it curious that two of the top conferences on artificial intelligence are organized by NVIDIA and Intel? What do chip companies have to teach us about algorithms? The answer is that nowadays, for machine learning (ML), and particularly deep learning (DL), it’s all about GPUs. In his most recent Forbes Technology Counsel post, SVSG CTO and Practice Lead Bernard Fraenkel ...