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A STRATEGIC FOUNDATION TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
To survive and thrive in today’s digital world, businesses must undergo a fundamental shift across all aspects of their operations—sometimes called a “digital transformation”. In Inform, Transform, and Outperform, John Horodyski and his team of contributors provide compelling, collective insight into building a tactical foundation to achieve a holistic digital strategy.
You’ll discover how to: • develop strong metadata and taxonomy for robust search capabilities • optimize your digital content workflows • select the right amount of digital security • minimize the pain of integrating legacy systems • strengthen your stakeholder management systems
As experts in digital strategy and operations, John and his team show how you can navigate the rapid technological changes to better leverage and monetize your organization’s intellectual property.

ARE YOU GETTING ALL YOU CAN FROM YOUR IT EXPERT OR PROVIDER? ARE YOUR QUESTIONS BEING ANSWERED? IS THEIR ADVICE LEADING YOUR BUSINESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION?

If you’ve answered no to any or all of these questions, this book can provide you with the tools you need to turn things around. In today’s business world, industry leaders need to stay up to date with current technology trends for fear of falling behind. As if the technology alone weren’t enough to boggle small business owners, now they have a variety of management options to choose from. First, there were too many technology choices and nowhere to go. Now, there are too many places to go. The reward for choosing well, however, can be unprecedented growth. In this book, David E. Eisner, founder of one of the top IT managed services providers in the world, provides small business owners with the right tools to select an IT partner to help them grow. He provides everything to consider when looking for a solution to your technology needs. Unless you are an IT expert yourself, you will likely spend too much time and resources trying to address your technology predicaments, and you may even lose money trying to tackle this yourself rather than hiring a professional. These decisions can make or break a business in some cases, so they certainly should not be handled lightly. In order for your small business to succeed in the long run, your employees, clients, and technology need to work together seamlessly. You need a partner with experience in staying ahead of the game, and David can help you find that someone.

We’ve all read the cybersecurity horror stories: a prominent company exposes the private information of their customers only to scramble after the fact to apologize and safeguard the data. Cybersecurity is often an afterthought, a much lower priority than profit—until a data breach threatens the bottom line anyway.
In The Cyber-Elephant in the Boardroom, data security expert and CEO Mathieu Gorge, along with a host of guests, shows why protecting a company’s data should be top of mind for C-suites and corporate boards. With the innovative 5 Pillars of Security Framework, any C-level executive can understand their organization’s cyber risk and the steps they need to take to protect their information. There’s a cyber-elephant in the boardroom and it needs to be addressed!

In the digital age, our personal data has become a valuable commodity, sought after by corporations, organizations, and governments alike. Data Independence: Reclaiming Privacy in an Era of Evolving Tech is a groundbreaking book by data scientist Wes Chaar that exposes the hidden world of the data economy and offers a revolutionary solution to reclaim our data rights.

With over twenty years of experience in the data space, Chaar reveals some of the hidden techniques used to collect, analyze, and monetize our personal information without our complete knowledge or understanding. From our daily activities, online behavior and purchases, and social media interactions to location tracking and biometric data, every aspect of our lives is being monitored and compiled into a digital dossier, which provides significant insights into an individual and monetization opportunities for corporations.

Data Independence is more than just a revelation—it’s a revolution to reclaim your rights. Chaar introduces the Personal Data Vault Key, a tool concept that puts individuals in control of their data. By leveraging the principles of data consent, control, and currency, everyone is in charge of their data. This creates transparency, accountability, protection, equality, and respect between you and the entities you allow to use your data assets on your terms. The Personal Data Vault Key empowers users to decide who accesses their data, how it's used, and even how to monetize it.

Through compelling case studies, expert insights, and practical guidance, Data Independence demystifies the complex world of data privacy and provides readers with the knowledge and tools they need to protect their data power. Chaar's engaging and accessible writing style makes even the most technical concepts easy to understand, while his passionate advocacy for privacy rights is both inspiring and empowering.

Whether you're concerned about your offline and online privacy, curious about the inner workings of the data economy, or seeking to leverage your personal data for your own benefit, Data Independence is an essential read. It's a call to action for a data revolution—one that puts the power back in the hands of the people.

Join Wes Chaar on this transformative journey and discover how to unlock the power of personal data control. Your data future starts here.

THE FUTURE IS OURS
When humans first evolved, we were basically indistinguishable from animals. Then we harnessed the power of fire, and it catapulted us beyond a state of animalism. Since then, human innovation has propelled us from one technological revolution to the next.

We are now at the next world-altering wave of technological evolution: artificial intelligence. But the current AI offerings cannot fulfill our fundamental desire to communicate with our technology through speech. We didn’t evolve to type or use a mouse; we evolved to have conversations, including with our technology. We want the USS Enterprise shipboard computer, J.A.R.V.I.S. from Iron Man, the interface from Her. But we are not there yet.

Conversational AI and AI in general are collectively our next fire, light bulb, or internet. And we must thank Apple, Google, and Amazon for whetting our appetite with Siri, Google Home, and Alexa. But now we’re ready for what’s next. That’s where the groundbreaking work of computer scientist Jason Mars and Clinc, the company he founded, comes in.

Breaking Bots paints a thrilling portrait of the past, present, and future of the AI revolution through Jason’s unlikely journey to AI stardom, the extraordinary rise of Clinc from a scrappy start-up to a juggernaut toppler, and the paradigm-shifting technical and cultural DNA that makes Jason’s work and Clinc’s technology the future of AI.
The AI revolution is at hand—and you are part of the journey!

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and large language models (LLM) are machine learning algorithms that operate in an unsupervised or semi-supervised manner. These algorithms leverage pre-existing content, such as text, photos, audio, video, and code, to generate novel content. The primary objective is to produce authentic and novel material. In addition, there exists an absence of constraints on the quantity of novel material that they are capable of generating. New material can be generated through the utilization of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or natural language interfaces, such as the ChatGPT developed by Open AI and Bard developed by Google.

The field of generative artificial intelligence (AI) stands out due to its unique characteristic of undergoing development and maturation in a highly transparent manner, with its progress being observed by the public at large. The current era of artificial intelligence is being influenced by the imperative to effectively utilise its capabilities in order to enhance corporate operations. Specifically, the use of large language model (LLM) capabilities, which fall under the category of Generative AI, holds the potential to redefine the limits of innovation and productivity. However, as firms strive to include new technologies, there is a potential for compromising data privacy, long-term competitiveness, and environmental sustainability.

This book delves into the exploration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and LLM. It examines the historical and evolutionary development of generative AI models, as well as the challenges and issues that have emerged from these models and LLM. This book also discusses the necessity of generative AI-based systems and explores the various training methods that have been developed for generative AI models, including LLM pretraining, LLM fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning from human feedback. Additionally, it explores the potential use cases, applications, and ethical considerations associated with these models. This book concludes by discussing future directions in generative AI and presenting various case studies that highlight the applications of generative AI and LLM.

"Industrial quantum computing" (IQC) covers the applications of quantum computing innovations in general industry and industry 4.0. This book presents the application of quantum computations to the financial sector, medical services, the logistics industry, and the manufacturing industry.