Tuesday, April 24, 2018

AI + Semantic Web; Apple & Google

Apple has hired Google’s head of search and artificial intelligence | Ars Technica

"Google SVP of Engineering in charge of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea announced his departure from the company. Now the reason for that departure is clear: he's been hired by Apple to lead the company's "machine learning and A.I. strategy," reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook."


"Freebase was a large collaborative knowledge base consisting of data composed mainly by its community members. It was an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual, user-submitted wiki contributions.[3] Freebase aimed to create a global resource that allowed people (and machines) to access common information more effectively. It was developed by the American software company Metaweb and ran publicly since March 2007. Metaweb was acquired by Google"

"John Giannandrea, formerly Chief Technologist at Tellme Networks and Chief Technologist of the Web browser group at Netscape/AOL, was Chief Technology Officer."



CockroachDB: cloud-native SQL database, open source


CockroachDB


Cockroach Labs - Wikipedia

"CockroachDB, has been compared to Google's Spanner database.[2] CockroachDB is an open-sourced software project that is designed to store copies of data in multiple locations in order to deliver requested data when needed.[3][4] It is described as a scalable, consistently-replicated, transactional datastore.[5]


"CockroachDB, an open-source database built using a Google whitepaper on Spanner"



CockroachDB @ GitHub


vs PostgreSQL vs MongoDB