Author: Jeff Francis

Jeff Francis is a veteran entrepreneur and founder of Dallas-based digital product studio ENO8. Jeff founded ENO8 to empower companies of all sizes to design, develop and deliver innovative, impactful digital products. With more than 18 years working with early-stage startups, Jeff has a passion for creating and growing new businesses from the ground up, and has honed a unique ability to assist companies with aligning their technology product initiatives with real business outcomes.

What one amazing World Cup goal can teach you about business

As the World Cup winds down, it's worth rewatching one of the most beautiful goals of the tournament and applying its lessons to real life. Read More

Starbucks shows us a company putting AI to work now

Starbucks has always been a leader in mobile personalization. Now, it's using a cloud-based AI engine to improve service even more. Read More

Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, Mental Health and A.I.

It’s been a particularly tragic couple of weeks in the press: two beloved public figures committed suicide in short succession. First, we lost Kate Spade, followed by Anthony Bourdain. Both individuals left behind young children, fortune, fame and seemingly everything else a successful person could possibly want. Except, mental health, neurology and... Read More

The US is back on the supercomputing summit with Summit

Following years of eager anticipation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory fired up Summit, the U.S.'s supercomputing crown jewel. The fastest such computer in the world. Read More

How do you turn an A.I. psychotic? Feed it the worst of the Internet

Artificial intelligence hasn’t reach the singularity just yet — essentially, the point at which an artificial intelligence becomes a more adept problem solver than humans such that it can think independently, creatively and iteratively improve itself in the process (summarized in Digital Trends nicely: “Super-intelligent machines will design even better... Read More

Differentiate your app by using A.I.

When the big players in AI release SDKs and APIs to market, Christmas came early as far as we're concerned. Microsoft did just that and we're pumped to take it to the streets — along with a host of other AI tools we can use to help you differentiate your... Read More

Why A.I. is the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down

In a Mary Poppins sense, A.I. is a spoonful of sugar. But instead of medicine going down, it's bringing down errors and cost for stakeholders Read More

A.I. gives it the old college try

Carnegie Mellon is a bellwether of engineering emphasis—its autonomous driving department led the way until Uber poached the team away. Next up for CMU? Majoring in A.I. Read More

Did Google’s A.I. just beat the Turing test? Yes and no.

The Turing Test is one of THE benchmarks in artificial intelligence. And Google's A.I. might have just beat it with everyone watching. Read More

One of the most successful AI startups in the world is also one of its scariest

SenseTime's recent $600 million funding round proves two things: China is in it to win it on AI and image recognition is big business. Read More

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