Smart cities are pinnacles of technological and environmental innovation. In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), smart tech and the Internet of Things (IoT)...

“It really made me see what the organization is about, how many rock stars are around here. So that’s a great idea for people thinking about it.” The opportunity to network and develop new industry contacts at Fuse has proven a constant benefit for Copeland – now president and chief executive officer at Summit Lending USA – in the years since he entered the broker channel. “I always encourage people to get out of town, go meet some new friends – because you just...

Voice recognition technology has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s when early systems could only recognize a limited set of spoken digits. Significant advancements occurred in the 1960s with IBM’s “Shoebox,” capable of understanding 16 words, and in the 1970s when DARPA-funded research expanded vocabulary recognition to 1,000 words. The 1980s saw the introduction of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), which greatly improved accuracy.The 1990s marked a turning point with the launch of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, enabling more practical dictation to computers. The 2000s and 2010s brought voice recognition to the mainstream, with the advent of smartphones and intelligent assistants like Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa. These advancements, driven by deep...