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Cybernetic ebooks: A panel on machine learning and AI in book production
Monica Landers, CEO at StoryFit, Jens Tröger, CEO at Bookalope, Wendy Reid, Senior QA Analyst at Rakuten Kobo Inc., and Joshua Tallent, Director of Outreach and Education at Firebrand Technologies, share their different approaches to applying ML/AI at their companies and their outcomes, highlighting both strengths and limitations, as they consider a vision of a more automated publishing workflow.
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Blockchain and building the future of information management and sharing
Since debuting in 2008 in the form of bitcoin cryptocurrency, blockchain technology has moved beyond the financial sector and promises to upend the way all data is stored and exchanged. Join a panel of experts from the publishing industry and beyond for an overview of the technology and a panel discussion to explore the opportunities and potential roadblocks the technology could present the publishing supply chain. Part thought experiment, part show-and-tell, discover how blockchain technology could impact rights management, metadata distribution, and more.
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Information doesn’t want to be free
There are three iron laws of information age creativity, freedom, and business, woven deep into the fabric of the Internet’s design, the functioning of markets, and the global system of regulation and trade agreements. You can’t attain any kind of sustained commercial, creative success without understanding these laws—but more importantly, the future of freedom itself depends on getting them right.
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