ILMF keynotes: AI data processing is maturing fast in other industries–but is it right for geospatial applications?
Geo Week 2019’s keynotes offered two important lessons in how to process huge amounts of data.
Author William Tompkinson
William Tompkinson
While technology providers continue to strive to provide tools that are faster, lighter, higher, this blog aims to look at what the implications might be on the value of a firm's solutions.
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