The Ethereum Ecosystem Could Use More Paper Wallet Solutions – The Merkle

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A lot of people are actively looking for good Ethereum wallets right now. Unfortunately, one thing that is obviously lacking is a way for people to create a proper paper wallet for Ethereum. That is quite surprising, considering such a service would be of great interest to a lot of people. It is evident the first company to create a convenient Ethereum paper wallet solution would gain a lot of market traction.

In the world of Bitcoin, creating a paper wallet is quite easy these days. In fact, there are quite a few websites where people can generate a paper wallet right away without too much friction. BitAddress is one of those convenient services a lot of Bitcoin users enjoy to use these days. However, such a project does not exist in the world ofEthereum, for some unknown reason.

To put this into perspective, there is a way to generate a paper wallet for Ethereum right now. MyEtherWallet, one of the most popular Ethereum wallet solutions among cryptocurrency ICO investors, offers a way to create a paper wallet. It is a bit of a complicated process for most people, though, considering users need to generate a wallet first and there does not appear to be a clear paper wallet option while doing so.

Once the wallet is created, users are presented with a download button. However, on the download page, there is always a button mentioning I understand, continue. After clicking this button, users will have an option to print their paper wallet from the website directly. This is a bit of a backward way of generating paper wallets, although it does the job just fine once people get the hang of it.

There is an alternative way to use the download file and turn it into a paper wallet, though. By visiting the MyEtherWallet website and viewing the wallet info through the UTC/JSON file, users will see all of the wallet information which can be printed out as well. This is an even more complicated solution to achieve something that should be very simple, though. Then again, there is no click-and-print solution for Ethereum paper wallets right now.

One thing to take into account when using MyEtherWallet is how there is a difference between using the website or running the source code on your computer. It is possible to generate a paper wallet completely offline by downloaded MyEtherWallet to your computer and going through the process of setting it up. Everyone looking to create an Ethereum paper wallet using MyEtherWallet should download the source code and run it on your computer, to ensure there is no private key taint.

It is evident there is a demand for Ethereum paper wallet solutions right now. However, it is difficult to find a convenient solution right now. The Ethereum community can only hope someone comes up with a more convenient solution to create a paper wallet. Then again, there are quite a few hardware wallet solutions available right now, which are more secure than paper wallets will ever be. Paper wallets can be used to create convenient ETH gifts for friends and family, though.

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Thomson Reuters to Act as Trusted Data Source for the Blockchain Ecosystem – Finance Magnates

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Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has made a smart oracle available in the blockchain ecosystem for lean experimentation purposes. This means thatorganizations are now able to represent real market conditions in their proof of concepts by using the smart oracle, BlockOne IQ, to include current and historical market data within their applications, with cryptographic proof that Thomson Reuters is the source.

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After speaking with our customers, it became clear that there isnt currently a participant in the blockchain ecosystem that is acting as a trusted source of external data for many of the financial services use cases, said Sam Chadwick, Director of Strategy in Innovation and Blockchain, Thomson Reuters. At our core, Thomson Reuters provides access to aggregated, high quality data and analytics two characteristics that play well in an oracle and smart contract system so its a natural transition for us, and another mechanism to deliver our content to industry participants.

Bringing trusted and secure external data to the blockchain ecosystem will be hugely beneficial, said John Dwyer, Senior Research Analyst Celent. This move is coinciding with rapid expansion of new alternative data sets in capital markets and an extraordinary level of innovation across both public and private blockchains.

Oracles are adapter-like mechanisms that bridge the gap between web-based APIs and the blockchain. BlockOne IQ is the Thomson Reuters Oracle that allows blockchain-based applications to include Thomson Reuters data in their automated processes. Currently, BlockOne IQ is only compatible with Corda and Ethereum, however Hyperledger and other technologies are said to be in the pipeline. The service will be released to R3 and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance members and will also be available to developers via the Thomson Reuters Developer Community.

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Nominees announced for 2017 Ecosystem Awards – Rochester Business Journal

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Community members across Rochester have been nominated for the 2017 Ecosystem Awards, Upstate Venture Connect said.

Upstate Venture Connect is a non-profit that aims to create a startup ecosystem for Upstate New York led by entrepreneurs. The organization received 120 submissions across the five awards categories this year.

Were ready for another year of connecting entrepreneurs to investors and community builders. Well showcase the top CEOs creating the future today, and celebrate those for their efforts in making Upstate NY the go-to destination for entrepreneurs, said Martin Babinec, UVC founder.

An independent panel of judges will review the nominations and select the winners for each category.

The nominees in the Finger Lakes region include:

Campus Connector: The award is given to individuals affiliated with an educational institution who are leveraging on and off-campus resources and connections to spin out research startups and/or create opportunities to retain entrepreneurial students.

Magical Mentor: The award is given to individuals who have had a transformative impact on the trajectory of one or more startup companies.

Community Catalyst: The award is given to individuals who organize programs to bring together diverse startup ecosystem players in a local community and/or increase the amount of capital and number of active early stage investors in that community.

Ecosystem Champion: This award is given to individuals who are catalyzing and supporting startup activity across multiple Upstate communities, according to UVC.

The award luncheon is slated for Sep. 19 at the Marriott Syracuse Downtown.

Additional information is available at: 2017-Upstate-Venture-Conference-Awards.Eventbrite.com.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/upstate-unleashed-conference-2017-venture-ecosystem-awards-tickets-32232965668

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Wanderlei Silva skipped Bellator 180 presser so he didn’t pull a Cris Cyborg and assault Chael Sonnen – MMAmania.com

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The beef between Wanderlei Silva and Chael Sonnen runs super deep. So much so that Axe Murderer is avoiding American Gangster ahead of their scheduled bout at Bellator 180 on June 24, 2017, in New York City at all costs. And its not because hes afraid if him, but rather afraid of what he might do once he sees him, which is the reason he bailed on a recent press conference.

The truth is, I didnt go to the press conference because I didnt want to do what (Cristiane) Cyborg (Justino) did with that girl that talked (expletive) to her, Silva told MMAjunkie today during a recent conference call (listen to full video replay here).

In case youve been living under a rock, Cyborg became the subject of an investigation after she decked Angela Magana in the mouth during a heated confrontation in Sin City several weeks ago (see the carnage here).

As for Silva and Sonnen, the two have a rivalry that dates back to 2011, as the two heavy hitters got into a heated argument inside a van (see it again here). They were set to tango three years later under Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) umbrella, but the bout was ultimately ultimately scrapped.

But, not before they came to blows on The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) set.

For Silva, getting into a fight with Sonnen prior to their much-anticipated showdown simply isnt worth it, so he prefers to rather keep his distance. Something hes been very good at doing.

When I see Chael, I dont know whats going to happen, Silva said. Im professional, but the guy has crossed the line with me and played with the wrong guy.

Bellator 180 will also feature an intriguing heavy fight pitting Fedor Emelianenko against Matt Mitrione, as well as a Welterweight title fight between Douglas Lima and Lorenz Larkin and a Lightweight bout between division champion Michael Chandler and Brent Primus.

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Brain Augmentation: How Scientists Are Working to Create Cyborg Humans with Super Intelligence – Newsweek

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For most people, the idea of brain augmentation remains in the realms of science fiction. However, for scientists across the globe, it is fast becoming realitywith the possibility of humans with super-intelligence edging ever closer.

In laboratory experiments on rats, researchers have already been able to transfer memories from one brain to another. Future projects include the development of telepathic communication and the creation of cyborgs, where humans have advanced abilities thanks to technological interventions.

Scientists Mikhail Lebedev, Ioan Opris and Manuel Casanova have now published a comprehensive collection of research into brain augmentation, and their efforts have won a major European science research prizethe Frontiers Spotlight Award. This $100,000 prize is for the winners to set up a conference that highlights emerging research in their field.

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Project leader Lebedev, a senior researcher at Duke University, North Carolina, said the reality of brain augmentationwhere intelligence is enhanced by brain implantswill be part of everyday life by 2030, and that people will have to deal with the reality of this new paradigm.

Their collection, Augmentation of brain function: facts, fiction and controversy, was published by Frontiers and includes almost 150 research articles by more than 600 contributing authors. It focuses on current brain augmentation, future proposals and the ethical and legal implications the topic raises.

Brain augmentation is basically an idea to use technology to improve the brain of a normal person or repair the brains of a people with neurological conditions, Lebedev tells Newsweek.

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There are three main approaches to doing this. The first involves recording information from the brain, decoding it via a computer or machine interface, and then utilizing the information for a purpose.

The second is to influence the brain by stimulating it pharmacologically or electrically: So you can stimulate the brain to produce artificial sensations, like the sensation of touch, or vision for the blind, he says. Or you could stimulate certain areas to improve their functionslike improved memory, attention. You can even connect two brains togetherone brain will stimulate the otherlike where scientists transferred memories of one rat to another.

The final approach is defined as futuristic. This would include humans becoming cyborgs, for example, and would raise the ethical and philosophical questions that will need to be addressed before scientists merge man and machine.

Lebedev said these ethical concerns could become real in the next 10 years, but the current technology poses no serious threat.

I guess some people may think it is dangerous, he says. But this is actually exactly why we organized this topic. We wanted to cover the issues scientifically, particularly papers that provide a snapshot of the current situation.

Probably the biggest thing to overcome ethically is whether you can you interfere with somebodys consciousness. Of course nobody knows what consciousness is, but ethically it is clearyou dont want to interfere with a person to the extent that their consciousness or individuality can change.

One of the studies, which used pharmacological approaches to augmentation, helped improve brain function temporarily, but this led to changes to the brain. Should you be allowed to do this or not? he says.

When it comes to human super intelligence, brain augmentation does not necessarily mean the creation of Professor X-type people. Instead (at least for now), it relates to improving things like memory and concentration, while developing ways to treat people with sensory disabilitiesfor example, restoring the sense of touch to a person who has been paralyzed.

A man moves his finger toward a robotic hand at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots in Madrid on November 19, 2014. AFP

The brain produces many capacitiesit produces consciousness, Lebedev says. But at the same time, computers can do some things much better than the brain. They do it differently. For example, they play chess better, they do mathematical calculations better, they even can memorize better. So probably in the near future giving humans super intelligence would be enlarging capacities of the human brain.

I do not necessarily see it as a direct interface of these devices to the brain. There are still many areas to develop now using normal sensorsyou can have glasses that augment reality and so on. First of all, we will see sensory augmentation. Sensory disabilities will no longer be a problem. If a person is blind then there will be ways to restore vision. Or if a person is paralyzed and cant feel, sensations will be restored.

He said at some point in the future this augmentation may turn into a direct interface, or exo-brain, embedded into the organ, but this is at least 20 years away from being real. Beyond that we can speculate that maybe there will be brain to brain communications, so you can connect to another person and exchange thoughts directly. But this is unlikely to happen for another 20 years from now, maybe 50 years.

Lebedevs personal research interests lie with brain-machine interfaces. For his own hopes for brain augmentation, he says he would like to see a device that can be fully implanted into the brain. At the moment, scientists do not have the technology to create interfaces in this way and the implant would need to get a power sourcewhich is one of the biggest problemsand would need to have a wireless communication system included.

For now, it is a case of waiting for the technology to progress. "You will be amazed by how much we will have advanced in 2030," said Opris, Lebedevs co-editor on the project. "There are as many possibilities as the imaginations of researchers.

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Boca Raton prohibits swimming at beaches after high bacteria levels found at two sites – Sun Sentinel

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The city of Boca Raton is prohibiting swimming at all its beaches after results from testing at two sites showed high bacterial levels in the water.

The citys beaches will remain open to the public, with red flags and signs at its entrances enforcing no swimming.

Full use of the beaches may resume within the next 24 to 48 hours once results are in from additional water samples.

Testing takes about 24 hours, so [by Thursday], we should know if its clear or not, said Chrissy Gibson, Boca Ratons spokeswoman.

A health advisory was issued for beaches at Spanish River Park and South Inlet Park after they were listed in the poor range because of recent sampling, the Palm Beach County Department of Health said Wednesday.

Beach waters at 13 locations from Boca Raton to Jupiter are regularly tested by health department workers and, following laboratory testing, concentrations of bacteria are assigned to indicate poor, moderate or good ranges.

The cause of the elevated bacteria levels isnt known, but typical causes include runoff following heavy rains, high surf from high winds and high tides, heavy recreational usage and wildlife.

Such bacteria can lead to infectious diseases, especially for someone with an open wound or a compromised immune system, said health department spokesman Tim OConnor. Additionally, it has an entry point if swallowed.

You can find water quality listings for beaches in Palm Beach County and throughout the state at http://www.flhealthpalmbeach.org. Click the link to Beach Water Sampling.

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NYC beaches, outdoor pools to stay open one week after Labor Day … – New York Daily News

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Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 5:35 PM

The citys most popular beaches and large outdoor pools will stay open for an extra week after Labor Day, officials announced Tuesday as the mercury climbed into the 90s for the third straight day.

The Parks Department got $1.7 million in the city budget passed last week to pay for the extension, which will apply to six beaches and Olympic- and intermediate-sized outdoor pools.

Beaches and pools will stay open through Sunday, Sept. 10. Its the second year pools are staying open later, and the third for beaches.

To millions of New Yorkers, our citys beaches and pools are a necessity: its where they go on hot summer days to relax, exercise, and just cool off, Mayor de Blasio said.

NYC summer comes to end, but beaches, pools open one more week

Coney Island and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, Rockaway Beach in Queens, Orchard Beach in the Bronx, and Midland and South Beaches on Staten Island are all staying open later.

Last summer, nearly 16 million people visited New York City beaches, and 1.9 million visited outdoor pools. Beaches have been open since Memorial Day weekend, while pools will open June 28.

"For the countless New Yorkers who cant afford to vacation in the Hamptons or take a cruise in the Caribbean, the city's beaches and pools offer exceptional summer recreation opportunities right here in the five boroughs accessible for the price of a MetroCard, said Councilman Mark Levine, chair of the parks committee.

Meanwhile, City Hall plans to announce a $106 million program Wednesday to curb the effects of extreme heat in city neighborhoods, billed as part of the push to increase New Yorks resiliency against climate change.

NYC Parks Dept. has 43 projects stalled for 5 years or more

The current heat wave saw the mercury soar to 98 degrees at LaGuardia Airport Tuesday, a record high beating the previous record of 97 set in 1961, according to the National Weather Service. Central Park was a slightly cooler 94 degrees, which is not a record.

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Will Palm Beach be part of new Palm Beaches Marathon this winter? – Palm Beach Daily News

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The reinstated Palm Beaches Marathon could run through the island this year.

Race organizers are working on the route and received permission from the Town Council on Tuesday to meet with Palm Beach officials earlier than normal this summer to discuss the plan. In the past, Palm Beach has not allowed the race to come over the bridge.

To allow runners to cross onto the island, race organizers need a special event permit. A town ordinance prohibits event organizers from filing the application more than 90 days in advance of the event.

Ken Kennerly CEO of K2 Sports Ventures, which acquired the former Eau Palm Beach Marathon & Run Fest last year from the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches asked the council for a waiver so he can get started earlier with race planning. The FITTEAM Palm Beaches Marathon, which also includes a half marathon and 5k race, is scheduled Dec. 1-3.

The race was cancelled last year.

Were looking to bring this race back to prominence, said Kennerly, also executive director of the Honda Classic. This gives us two additional months. From an operational, logistics standpoint, all were looking for is to create a seamless and unobtrusive event for your residents and guests.

Gary Ferman, a spokesman for the race, wouldnt say whether the plan involves crossing onto the island.

Nothing has been determined yet along those lines, he said via email. The routes for this years races are under development and have not been finalized to this point.

Town Manager Tom Bradford said race organizers have discussed several options for routes but he isnt sure what they will end up proposing.

My position on it is if it is considered, the impact has to be de minimis in terms of area impacted and time of day, Bradford said via email. We told them a special event permit is required, and due to the potential magnitude, it would have to be approved by the Town Council. We told them timing would also have to consider President Trump being here or not.

Former race denied

In 2015, former race manager Meryl Leventon asked the town for permission for an estimated 3,000 runners to cross the Royal Park Bridge and race down South Ocean Boulevard before exiting on the Southern Boulevard Bridge. The town denied the permit and Leventon appealed to the council.

The council voted 3-2 to reject the appeal. Current members Danielle Moore and Richard Kleid were the ones who were willing to give the marathon a trial run. The three members who voted against allowing the race are no longer on the council. Mayor Gail Coniglio and her son Nick Coniglio at the time also supported the 3-mile proposed route onto the island.

LETTER: Marathon should be allowed on island

Kennerly said his grandparents owned a home near Sloans Curve and he has spent a lot of time in Palm Beach.

I certainly understand what makes Palm Beach one of the greatest places on this planet, he said. Professionally, Ive had the opportunity to work with your officials, Jay Boodheshwar in particular on the Palm Beach Par 3. Weve had several events in Palm Beach and I hope he and his staff would attest to the quality and professionalism that we maintain.

One of the goals of the race is to take advantage of the picturesque setting that the water views along Flagler Drive provide, it states in a March news release.

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Money for St. Johns County’s beaches doesn’t come without costs – St. Augustine Record

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St. Johns County commissioners on Tuesday will consider entering into a grant agreement with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to receive assistance for recovery efforts tied to Hurricane Matthew.

Gov. Rick Scott in February allocated nearly $15.8 million in emergency beach restoration funds to St. Johns, Flagler, Volusia and Brevard counties through a pair of executive orders. St. Johns County secured and accepted a $3.75 million share of the pot, but the monies come with a 50 percent match requirement to make a $7.5 million project and the countys strapped for cash.

The agreement would allow the county to use the $3.75 million toward addressing beach erosion via sand placement and dune vegetation planting along a critically-eroded area stretching from about 5,000 feet north of the St. Augustine Inlet to just south of the entrance of the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve. Funds will have to be disbursed prior to July 2020.

Neal Shinkre, public works director, said next weeks discussion will include a review of potential funding mechanisms to cover the 50 percent cost share.

He said the likely choice will be to create a Municipal Service Benefit Unit, which is a non-ad valorem assessment, not tied to the value of a property.

He said he would expect to come back before the board in about two months to put the plan into motion.

The whole process could take five to six months, and a project wouldnt come until after that.

Thats just the way the process is, Shinkre said. I cant shorten it.

He said the county has held two meetings with property owners in the affected area over the past few months and that they seem generally willing to go ahead with the assessments.

If the community as a whole cant afford this, then there is no project, Shinkre said. But I want to give my best in terms of what we can do for the community. Its up to the community to agree, or not, to move forward.

The county is also waiting for details on $13.3 million the Florida Legislature separately allocated for hurricane recovery on beaches in St. Johns, Flagler, Volusia and Brevard counties. It is still unknown how much will be allocated to each county, although Shinkre said he was hoping to get at least half of those monies.

I wanted to wait, Shinkre said. It benefits us to wait till we know where the $13.3 million is, but I dont want to waste time considering that I need another five months to go through this legal process of the MSBU to establish that.

Meanwhile, the reimbursement process with the Federal Emergency Management Agency continues.

The countys official damage assessment to FEMA, originally submitted in the wake of the storm, totaled about $174.8 million and included about $120 million in sand and dune losses within the coastal region. In May, however, updated assessments came in around $112.7 million and included just $70 million in sand and dune losses.

A county memo released last week outlining hurricane-related projects and funding sources says the storm resulted in about 1.4 million cubic yards of sand loss countywide and that the current going rate for sand replacement these days is about $50 per cubic yard.

Shinkre has said just because sand is gone doesnt mean all of it is coming back. Still, the county is asking for the $70 million, which includes the $20 million that would be covered by the state-headed projects outlined above, at least partly in the hopes the local share will go down.

Sand renourishment under the FEMA Public Assistance program is limited to improved, publicly-owned property, which, the memo says, accounts for just 160,000 cubic yards of the total sand lost. The estimated $8 million replacement cost for this portion of beach sand would require a county match of about $1 million.

The memo says, from a coastal engineering perspective, re-nourishing only the sand lost intermittently on county-owned property would not provide any meaningful protection from future storms.

Therefore, the County is challenging these limitations, stating the entire beach has public use, is an integrated system of protection and requires funding from FEMA, the memo continues.

Were calling it a unified beach, Shinkre elaborated.

Several projects are underway or have already been completed using a variety of federal, state and local funding.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Florida Inland Navigation District and St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District recently redirected about $4 million of sand to a roughly 4,000-foot stretch of impacted shoreline in Vilano Beach through a navigation dredge project. Shinkre said completion of the project, in addition to not coming at a cost to the county, will also take some of the load off the incoming state-sponsored projects.

In Summer Haven, a dredge of the Intracoastal Waterway has been completed while restoration of the Summer Haven River continues, but is expected to be done soon. Both projects are putting sand back on area beaches.

Shinkre said the county is also working with FEMA on two projects worth about $9 million that would restore roadways in north and south Summer Haven. At least for now, a 12.5 percent local share is expected to come out out Transportation Trust Fund reserves.

Either/or, there are limited funds everywhere, Shinkre said. Well see what the board does on that.

Additionally, a $75 million, 50-year beach nourishment program for South Ponte Vedra and Vilano Beach is closer to becoming a reality. The program, which would be similar to the one in place for St. Augustine Beach, got approval by a Corps panel and is headed to Congress by the end of the year. Shinkre said the proposed project area extends from about the middle of Serenata Beach Club down to about 5,000 feet north of the inlet.

However, under current conditions, the program would only be 22 percent funded, compared to the 80 percent federal share for St. Augustine Beach. This is mostly due to lack of public access.

Shinkre said the countys trying to work with the Corps and boost some local parking and access in the hopes of increasing that 22 percent federal share to 45 percent.

Were optimistic on that number, he said, adding the county will also be lobbying the state to take on half the 55 percent remaining.

He said if all goes well, design for an initial nourishment could commence by sometime next year.

We are out but were not in doubt, Shinkre said.

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I certainly dont look like someone whos a beach expert or even like someone who should be seen at a beach but after more than a decade of putting together our Get Out Guide to Kenosha County beaches, Im intimately acquainted with our local hot spots.

After visiting our public beaches this week, Ive come away with some inside information:

The best sand hands down can be found at Lake Andrea in Pleasant Prairie. Seriously, they groom that beach more than I comb my own hair, and the swimming area has a clean, sandy bottom, too. (Thats much appreciated when compared to the other lakes.)

Check it out yourself. New this year at Lake Andrea are Beach Bash Wednesdays, with prizes, games and other activities from 4 to 6 p.m. each week. Free to RecPlex members; $4 for non-members.

Ink-spiration: If you need ideas for your next tattoo, head to a beach. Youll see plenty of body art. In fact, its rare to find someone between the ages of 18 and 40 who doesn't sport at least one tattoo.

A real shame: The beach house at Simmons Island beach is mostly boarded up and crumbling (though the restrooms are open). That's no way to treat a National Historic Landmark from 1934! I hate to think Racine is doing anything better than we are, but check out that city's North Beach Oasis for an idea of what we could have here. Isn't it time to revive this building?

Bring a book: The worlds cutest Little Library can be found at the beach in Lance Park in Twin Lakes (look for the Cat in the Hat), but it was almost empty when we visited Sunday afternoon. If youre heading to that beach, be a pal and bring a book or two or eight to restock that free library.

Does this look like a rash to you? Silver Lake Park has the countys most popular beach, but it isnt perfect. They are currently warning visitors about swimmers itch, a rash caused by an allergic reaction to the larvae of parasites being in the water. Yuck, right? To avoid getting an itchy rash, towel off or rinse off theres a hose near the lifeguard office for this purpose after getting out of the water. An even bigger outrage? The Snoopy Ice Cream bar is gone from the concession stand! Is nothing sacred?

All the jazz: The perfect time to visit the beach at Old Settlers Park in Paddock Lake is July 11. Stick around that evening for the first west-of-the-I Twilight Jazz concert. Bills Little Big Band is performing from 7 to 9 that night. Admission is free.

Finally, smile and enjoy yourself. When you go to a beach in this area, youll see bodies of every size and shape. Including my shape, which is round and squishy. And you know what? Even the folks who dont have perfect beach bodies were having fun. And isnt that what a day at the beach is all about? Oh, and wear sunscreen. No matter what shape youre in, a sunburn is no fun.

Have a comment? Email Liz at esnyder@kenoshanews.com or call her at 262-656-6271.

Look in the June 15 Get Out entertainment section for your 2017 Guide to Kenosha County Beaches.

Jim Kreutzer has been producing movies for more than two decades, and he knows getting an independent film into theaters is no easy task.

Thats why hes thrilled that his latest film, Tommys Honour, will be playing for one week in Lake Geneva, starting June 16.

I finally managed to get Tommy opened locally, he said, adding, Getting any film outside of a studio picture to open in theaters is very political and difficult.

Tommys Honour, a movie about golfing legends Tom Morris (Old Tom) and his son Tommy Morris (Young Tom), also benefits from the U.S. Open being at the Erin Hills Golf Course in Hartford, Wis., he said.

The movie played in April at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Student Cinema Theater as a Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha fundraiser and at theaters in Wauwatosa and New Berlin. The film has had a very successful theatrical release in more than 65 of the biggest markets in the U.S. since April 14, Kreutzer said.

Critical reception: Tommy's Honour has a 77 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a figure indicating positive reviews. An engrossing and accessible celebration of the games modern origins, enhanced by striking locations and a standout cast, led by Scottish actors Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden, wrote The Hollywood Reporters Justin Lowe.

Audience reaction, Kreutzer said, has always been good.

Future showings: The movie, which was filmed in Scotland, will open in the U.K. on July 7 and Australia in August. It comes out on DVD and Video on Demand in July.

The film: The movie is a feast for golf fans, with several scenes of 19th century matches.

The golf in the movie is quite different from todays game. For one thing, they play in high winds, rain and even snow. Also, the spectators are right on top of the golfers and are busy yelling, fighting, drinking and wagering all through the match.

Its a film thats not about golf, though golf is the background of this, Kreutzer says of the movie, which, at its heart, is a father-and-son story. Young Tom is torn between his duty to his father and his yearning to break free of the strict class structure that existed in Scotland at that time.

Website: For more information about the film and reviews, go to http://www.tommyshonour.com.

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Big beaches are back in Oceanside – The San Diego Union-Tribune

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Workers have finished their two-month dredging of the Oceanside harbor, leaving a fresh coat of sand on beaches as the summer tourist season gets under way.

The annual project keeps the entrance to the busy harbor deep enough for safe navigation. The sediment thats harvested is pumped onto nearby beaches to replace whats lost to winter storms and strong currents.

This years haul was a bumper crop at least 420,000 cubic yards of sand deposited along the citys shoreline from the harbor to south of Oceanside municipal pier, said Greg Fuderer, spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The exact amount should be determined by surveys later in the week.

One of the big things was to make sure to build up (the beach) around the pier area and the park at Surfrider Way, Fuderer said Monday.

More sand makes more room on the beach for tourists and surfers, and helps to protect oceanfront streets such as The Strand, as well as homes, hotels and public parks from coastal erosion.

This year, longtime contractor Manson Construction of Seattle returned to do the work, replacing a different company that was hired to do the dredging last year. That contractor, CJW Construction, started later in the year after difficulties getting permits and then had equipment problems that stretched the work through the summer. In the end, less sand was removed and the beach was crowded with pipes, bulldozers and other equipment for most of the tourist season.

We had kind of a lost summer because we didnt have the beach, Oceanside Councilman Jerry Kern said Tuesday.

This year Manson which started dredging the mouth of the harbor in April also ran into some trouble, with stormy weather and rough seas that knocked an important piece of heavy equipment off the work barge. As a result, the dredging was extended about two weeks past the usual Memorial Day deadline to get additional sand requested by the city of Oceanside and the U.S. Navy.

Still, officials were pleased with the results.

It looks really nice, Kern said. The last few years we never got past the pier. Its at least 50 or 60 percent more (sand) than what we did in the past.

The Army Corps base contract with Manson called for dredging a total of 280,000 cubic yards of sand at a cost of $3.7 million. The city kicked in an additional $600,000 to get 80,000 more cubic yards, and the Navy an additional $625,000 to dredge 70,000 more cubic yards. The Navys boat basin at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base shares its entrance with the Oceanside harbor.

I wish we had done it last year, Kern said of the citys decision to pay for more sand.

Manson is expected to return next spring for the second year of a three-year contract.

The large steel pipes the contractor used to pump the sand across the beach between the harbor and the San Luis Rey River have been left buried in place to save the costs of removing, storing and replacing them, Fuderer said.

Other pipes used south of the river will be capped at the ends so that they float, and will then be hauled into the ocean and towed away to another job along the coast, he said.

Dredging opens the harbor entrance to a depth of 25 feet or more. Ocean currents constantly push sand into it, and sometimes before dredging it gets as shallow as 8 or 10 feet deep. Shallow water increases the size of waves, creating a hazard for small boats.

Oceanside voters approved construction of the harbor in 1960, according an article by local historian Kristi Hawthorne posted on the citys Chamber of Commerce website.

Officials broke ground in 1961, and the harbor was completed in 1963 with 520 boat slips at a cost of about $7 million, it states. All slips are taken, with a waiting list of more than 100 names.

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MANCHESTER Gray Beach might be more appropriately named Red Beach after the ruddy-colored invasive seaweed that has carpeted the sand for the last several days.

Though residents are unhappy with the excessive fine red seaweed brought ashore by a recent storm, the Public Works and the Parks and Recreation departments aren't currently planning any extra cleaning.

Public Works Director Carol Murray said she is also seeing the red seaweed coming ashore at Singing Beach, White Beach and to some extent Black Beach.

"It's nasty stuff. It's slippery. It doesn't dry out like regular seaweed does it stays almost like Jello," she said. The seaweed likely came from Japan in the bowels of a ship and has spread rapidly along the New England coast during the last four or five years.

The town cleans the beaches once every two weeks, raking up seaweed and sending it to a compost site on School Street. But the bi-weekly schedule may or may not be enough for the latest plague of red seaweed.

"The jury is still out because of the way offshore storms have been. Red seaweed comes back as soon as we rake it,"Murray said."Cleaning it more frequently won't help because it literally is back the next tide."

Much of Gray Beach, also known as Magnolia Beach, is privately owned by the Manchester Bath and Tennis Club, which usually staffs around four employees in the summer to clean the shore daily.

Manager Kim Allen has worked at the club for six years. "I've never seen it this bad, there's way more than usual," she said. "And it smells."

Despite the increasing seaweed, weekly beach water testing thus far has been normal, according to the sampling results from the Massachusetts State Beaches Program. Though it isn't likely that many residents will want to swim in that amount of algae. "It makes the beach un-useable for swimming, sitting and walking," nearby resident Kathleen Kiley said.

Kiley and her husband sold their home of 18 years in Manchester to downsize in a condo in Magnolia just over a year ago. As a longtime resident, she says the scourge of seaweed has never been so extensive. "It smells like rotting eggs or rotting garbage. It's a sulfur smell, it's very foul," Kiley said.

According to Kiley, raking the seaweed and putting it back into the water actually worsens the problem, a practice she has witnessed. "Breaking the seaweed up makes it multiply faster," she said.

This invasion began happening about four years ago, according to Murray, and the Public Works Department tried different ways to get rid of it before it eventually stopped appearing. "I think it's a cyclical thing and because a lot of storms have been off the coast, it stirs up the ocean and gets carried in on the tides," Murray said.

Public Works will keep an eye on the seaweed but at the moment plans to keep business as usual. "If it means we need to go to every week cleaning we'll have to try to pursue with selectmen an opportunity to get money from another account," Murray said. "The thing we keep scratching our heads with is, if it's going to come back next tide, and if it's advantageous to do it every week when you could do it every day and it would still be there?"

Parks and Recreation Director Cheryl Marshall echoed Murray. "Doing more doesnt help and doing less doesnt help. We're going to keep doing what we do," she said.

Gloucester Public Works Director Michael Hale often receives calls about the Manchester beach, but the city doesn't own any of the shore and therefore can't help with the seaweed.

"The town line runs through the center of the concrete landing that runs down off of Shore Road. There is no beach in Gloucester, it's all in Manchester," he said.

Though perhaps unrealistic for Manchester's budget, Gloucester cleans its main beaches on a daily basis to get rid of unwanted seaweed.

Mary Markos may be contacted at 978-675-2708 or mmarkos@gloucestertimes.com

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The Future Of Astronomy: Thousands Of Radio Telescopes That Can See Beyond The Stars – Forbes

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Galaxies are locked in place by their surroundings – Astronomy Magazine

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Galaxies can be used as tracers for numerous characteristics of the universe, including the cosmic web of hydrogen gas that connects galaxies and follows the distribution of dark matter filaments throughout the cosmos. Looking at where galaxies sit sheds light on these otherwise invisible structures, while also providing clues about the amount of mass in galaxies and how they influence their neighbors over time. Now, astronomers have traced the alignment of massive galaxies back 10 billion years, showing these objects have been in tune with their environment since the universe was just one-third its current age.

The work was led by Lowell Observatory astronomer Michael West, who together with his collaborators used Hubble Space Telescope images of 65 galaxy clusters located billions of light-years away to study the orientation of the massive elliptical galaxies in the centers of these clusters. What they found suggests that the biggest, brightest galaxies in galaxy clusters have been heavily influenced by their unique environment since very early times. The study appears in Nature Astronomy online today.

Galaxy clusters present a very different environment from the field, which is an astronomers term for the majority of the sky, which shows no preferential structure or clustering of galaxies. Inside galaxy clusters, individual galaxies are subjected to intense gravity, a hot intracluster medium of gas, and many more flybys between neighboring galaxies than could ever occur in the less dense field. And while galaxies in the field tend to be oriented any which way, galaxies in clusters are different. The massive galaxies at the centers of clusters show preferential alignment with their neighbors, and astronomers are still looking to find out why.

One reason for this alignment could be that over time, gravity simply tends to orient large galaxies in the same direction as their neighbors. Alternatively, because large galaxies grow by absorbing smaller galaxies, these smaller galaxies could impart orientation on the galaxies that eat them due to the progenitors preferred orientation along the cosmic web.

The results of Wests study dont rule out either scenario, but they do help constrain the alignment by showing that it occurs very early on in galaxy evolution. Its an important new piece of the puzzle, said West in a press release, because it says that whatever caused these alignments happened early.

Whats next? Wests group plans to push the envelope further by trying to observe even more distant galaxies. Despite the precision achievable with Hubble, however, this will be challenging, as even massive galaxies appear fainter and smaller as the distance between Earth and these clusters grows. But such observations at the earliest epochs may help astronomers finally determine the reason for this preferred orientation, helping to complete our picture of early galaxy evolution.

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This helpful new tool may give you a better idea of where to go to watch the total solar eclipse.

The University of California, Berkeley teamed up with Google to create the Eclipse Megamovie Project, a new simulator that can show what the eclipse will look like from any location, including along the path of totality, which stretches across 11 states and goes up to 72 miles wide.

All you have to do is go to the website, enter the zip code or city you want to see, and youll receive an animation of the Sun in the sky over a three-hour time span. Youll see whether you will stand in the path of totality on eclipse day, or alternatively how much of the Sun will disappear during the partial eclipse visible from other locations.

Dan Zevin, who is on the team leading the project at UC Berkeleys Space Sciences Laboratory, said that while there are other eclipse simulators out there, this one is unique.

There are lots of online animations of the 2017 eclipse, but you cant use them like ours to get a sense of the full experience, including your surroundings, Zevin said in a press release. Our simulation is closer to what one might experience in a planetarium show.

Get a better idea of what the eclipse will look like in your hometown or along the path of totality on August 21, 2017, at this link.

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Mining the Heavens: Astronomers Could Spot Asteroid Prospects – Space.com

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Artist's illustration of Deep Space Industries' Harvestor-class spacecraft for asteroid mining.

NEW YORK Smithsonian astrophysicist Martin Elvis would like to see astronomers take on a crucial role for future asteroid mining: as astronomical prospectors scoping out the next big catch.

Elvis, a researcher with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, discussed his dream for applied astronomy June 4 here at the Dawn of Private Space Science Symposium. Efficient asteroid mining would jump-start a space economy and bring down costs for exploration and space science, guiding humans into a modern space age, he said.

"My basic goal is just to revolutionize our exploration of the solar system, of the universe," Elvis said at the conference. [How Asteroid Mining Could Work (Infographic)]

Right now, he said, spaceflight and space science is unsustainably expensive. But asteroid mining could play a critical role in making those endeavors doable on a smaller budget, as private companies like SpaceX have decreased the launch cost per pound of payload.

But asteroid mining will face a critical problem, Elvis said: How to choose which asteroids will be worth the trip. And astronomers can play a crucial role in that determination, he said.

"The problem with asteroids is not many of them are valuable. You've got to find the right ones," he said. "We want to throw away that gray, stony stuff and deal with the carbonaceous or metallic ones, depending on whether you're looking for water or precious metals like platinum and palladium. So, this is where we [astronomers] come in."

As an example, Elvis pointed to the twin Magellan 6.5-meter telescopes in Chile. Professional astronomers could use telescopes of that size to characterize a faint asteroid in about 1-2 minutes. Eighty-five percent of asteroids could be thrown out based just on their color, he said, and the remaining 15 percent would be good prospects for sending small, exploratory probes using the data gathered about the objects' orbits and sizes.

Even a few nights per year would allow for the characterization of about 300 such objects, he said. And as larger telescopes come online, like the European Extremely Large Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope, the midsize telescopes could become more accessible for even more space-mining projects, he said.

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"This means astronomers can turn out to be useful again [like] what [they] used to be, back in the days of navigation," he said. Similar to modern-day mining on Earth, there could be a multistep process of prospecting remotely "you don't just go straight to start digging rocks" before making a trip, Elvis added.

Such a process could cut asteroid prospecting costs by a factor of 10, he said. That would allow asteroid mining to flourish, lowering the cost commercially to put people and science in space.

On Earth, most of the precious metals, like platinum and palladium, are located 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) down, but they can come much nearer to the surface on asteroids. Those metals have dissolved in iron and were drawn to the center of the Earth, Elvis said, and the same thing happened on asteroids but the asteroids were then smashed up enough that it made the precious metals much more accessible. (Comets also contain valuable resources, especially water, Elvis said, but the energy needed to reach those fast-moving bodies makes them less worth the cost to explore.)

So far, Elvis has talked to the asteroid-mining companies Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, but neither company initially believed that this kind of remote prospecting would be necessary, he said.

"Both of them are dominated by engineers who are very good at building small spacecraft, and I'm sure they will succeed at building interplanetary cubesat-scale spacecraft for prospecting at the asteroid, but they were initially unbelieving of what I just told you," Elvis said.

They might come around, though, he added. "One of the companies did eventually realize that this was a necessary precursor to their sending out satellites," he said. "The other still isn't interested."

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Legendary UC Santa Cruz astronomer and astrophysicist dies – The Mercury News

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SANTA CRUZ Jerry Nelson, a pioneering astronomer known for his innovative designs for advanced telescopes, died Saturday at his home in Santa Cruz. He was 73.

A professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, Nelson was project scientist for the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, and had served as project scientist for the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii from 1985 through 2012.

Nelson conceived the revolutionary segmented mirror design of the Keck Observatorys twin 10-meter telescopes, and he developed new techniques to fabricate and control the mirror segments.

Nelson also played an important role in the development of adaptive optics technology, which sharpens the images from ground-based telescopes by correcting for the blurring effect of Earths atmosphere. As founding director of the Center for Adaptive Optics, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center based at UC Santa Cruz, Nelson helped pioneer the use of adaptive optics in astronomy.

Nelson earned his B.S. in physics at the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in physics at UC Berkeley. From 1970 to 1981, he worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and he was a professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley from 1981 until 1994, when he moved to UCSC.

Much of Nelsons early research was in the area of high-energy physics and astrophysics. He analyzed the results of particle accelerator experiments and studied high-energy astrophysical phenomena such as pulsars using innovative astronomical instruments of his own design.

Nelson presented the concepts that led to segmented-mirror telescopes in a series of papers and technical reports starting in 1977, often working with UC colleagues Terry Mast and Gary Chanan. The largest telescopes at that time had been fashioned by polishing a single glass blank to the requisite precision of a small fraction of the wavelength of visible light. In order to maintain that surface, the polished mirrors had to be very thick and were therefore heavy, which was a problem for larger mirrors. Nelsons idea was to create a single, high-precision optical surface by supporting individual hexagonal mirrors in a close-packed honeycomb configuration. Making this concept a reality required a series of innovative ideas for fabrication, measurement, and control of the mirror segments.

Nearly twice the diameter and four times the light-gathering capacity of the previous largest ground-based telescopes, the twin Keck Telescopes had an enormous impact on astronomy and astrophysics research.

The segmented-mirror design will be seen as one of the major turning points in telescope technology and one that opened the path to much larger telescopes on the ground and in space in the coming decades, said Michael Bolte, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. Bolte, who serves on the TMT Board of Directors, said the TMTs 30-meter primary mirror design is essentially a scaled up version of the Keck primary mirrors.

After suffering a stroke in 2011, Nelson coped with significant physical limitations but remained deeply engaged in TMT design work. He was a wonderful colleague. His endless curiosity always pushed the scientists around him to think more deeply, and his persistence and continued excellence after his stroke were inspirational to everyone, Bolte said.

A symposium to honor Nelson was already planned for July 13 and 14 in Santa Cruz, featuring talks by many of the eminent astronomers who worked with him over the years. The gathering will now serve as a memorial celebration of his life, Bolte said.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Nelson received many awards and honors for his achievements, including the 2010 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, the Andr#xe9; Lallemande Prize of the French Academy of Sciences, and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics of the American Astronomical Society.

Nelson is survived by his wife, Jocelyn Nelson; his sister Jeanne Moat; two children from his first marriage, Leif and Alexandra; and three grandchildren. His first wife Victoria died in 1992.

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The process of developing and getting new crop protection technologies to market can stretch for more than a decade and require hundreds of millions of dollars. To home in on new ones in more timely and efficient ways, Monsanto is turning to artificial intelligence through a collaborative research agreement announced Wednesday.

The biotech giant's partnership with Atomwise, a San Francisco-based company that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery and development of medicines, will look for crop science applications of the company's AtomNet technology, which a press release said uses "algorithms and supercomputers to analyze millions of molecules for potential crop protection products."

"Instead of the traditional trial-and-error and process of elimination to analyze tens of thousands of molecules, the AtomNet technology aims to streamline the initial phase of discovery by analyzing how different molecules interact with one another," the release stated. "The software teaches itself about molecular interactions by identifying patterns, similar to how artificial intelligence learns to recognize images."

The new partnership marks Atomwise's first involvement with a company in the agriculture industry.

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How to Implement AI and Machine Learning

The next wave of IT innovation will be powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. We look at the ways companies can take advantage of it and how to get started.

Amazon Web Services wants to make AI and machine learning available to every organization, even those who don't have expertise in-house. That's a key takeaway from a talk by Jeff Bezos at the Internet Association's latest confab.

Bezos' goal is to make AI and machine learning readily available to all enterprises through AWS -- "even if they don't have the current class of expertise that's required." He acknowledged that "right now, deploying these techniques for your particular institution's problems is difficult. It takes a lot of expertise, and so you have to go compete for the very best PhDs in machine learning and it's difficult for a lot of organizations to win those competitions."

(Thanks to GeekWire's Todd Bishop for surfacing Bezos' talk.)

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Bezos noted that AI is changing the nature of enterprise software itself. He sees AI and machine learning as "a horizontal enabling layer" for his businesses, as well as every other business on the planet. Amazon's Alexa and Echo are more visible examples of services that "use a tremendous amount of machine learning, machine vision systems, natural language understanding and a bunch of other techniques."

The real value of AI and machine learning is "actually happening beneath the surface," he continued. "It is things like improved search results. Improved product recommendations for customers. Improved forecasting for inventory management. Literally hundreds of other things beneath the surface."

How impactful will AI and machine learning be on today's and tomorrow's enterprises and the software they use? Louis Columbus recently explored this surging evolution in Forbes, noting that AI is poised to transform enterprise software as we know it. He channels some details from a new proprietary study out of Cowen and Company, which, for starters, finds 81% of IT leaders already have plans to invest in AI.

Areas of the enterprise to be impacted first by AI include digital marketing/marketing automation, salesforce automation, CRM and data analytics, the Cowen study, based on interviews with 146 leading AI researchers, entrepreneurs and VC executives, finds. "The potential exists for enterprise apps to change selling and buying behavior, tailoring specific responses based on real-time data to optimize discounting, pricing, proposal and quoting decisions."

Put another way, AI and machine learning are bringing enterprise software developers and operations teams much, much closer to where the front-line customer action takes place. Other enterprise areas likely to transformed early on include customer self-service, enterprise resource planning, human resource management and e-commerce. (Bezos is already demonstrating how AI is enhancing e-commerce.)

The rise of AI will be seen in the arrival of an "intelligent app stack" that "will gain rapid adoption in enterprises as IT departments shift from system-of-record to system-of-intelligence apps, platforms, and priorities," the Cowen report states. Machine-learning algorithms will become an integral part of enterprise apps from this point forward, capable of providing "predictive insights across a broad base of scenarios encompassing a company's entire value chain."

(Disclosure: I am a regular contributor to Forbes, mentioned in this post.)

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