Chris Middleton

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Chris Middleton specialises in robotics, AI, the IoT, Industry 4.0, blockchain, and technology strategy. He is former editor of InternetOfBusiness.com, Computing, Computer Business Review, Professional Outsourcing (which he co-founded, now known as Intelligent Sourcing), Hack & Craft News, and UCInsight, among others, and is a contributing editor to Diginomica, Computing, InternetOfBusiness, and Hack & Craft News. He also founded Strategist magazine. Over the years, he has also written for Computer Weekly, The Guardian, The Times, PC World, I-CIO, V3, The Inquirer, and Blockchain News, among others. He is an acknowledged robotics expert who has appeared on BBC TV and radio, ITN, and Talk Radio, and is probably the only tech journalist in the UK to own a number of humanoid robots, which he hires out to events, exhibitions, universities, and schools. Chris has also chaired conferences on robotics, AI, IoT investment, digital marketing, blockchain, and space technologies, and has spoken at numerous other events.

Archive: Chris Middleton

stressed

Friday rant - get back in your silos folks, before it’s too late!

A controversial wake-up call around cloud, irresponsibility and the intellectual laziness the internet has created.

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Smart factories - why manufacturing big change is difficult

A new report from Capgemini promises major gains from smart manufacturing – but also major obstacles.

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State of interdependence - why the CCPA isn’t just ‘GDPR-US’

The CCPA isn’t a rerun of Europe's GDPR, even though some of the problems it tackles may be exactly the same.

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humanity

Digital Impact Week Summit - why digital transformation needs to be social transformation as well

Blockchain, blockchain everywhere, but it’s the wider humanitarian questions that demand real answers.

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Digital Impact Week Summit - how do we measure tech’s social benefits?

Digital Impact Week in London threw up some new global perspectives on an important new set of metrics.

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UK AI - Where are we now?

Chris Middleton catches up with Dame Wendy Hall at a London conference on the UK’s progress in AI skills and research.

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ethics

Can countries forge AI leadership through ethical strategies?

The Westminster eForum on AI skills and research excellence finds that ethics should be core to a country’s ambitions. But what does that actually mean?

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Blue Prism

Commercialising RPA - Blue Prism Chairman on "a technology that got invented in the UK - and no-one even noticed"

Blue Prism Chairman Jason Kingdon talks about the challenges of growing a UK-born tech success story that too few people have heard about.

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The importance of diversity in tackling the UK’s cyber-security skills crisis

Chris Middleton explores how the cyber-security sector should be looking to underrepresented groups to help bridge the UK’s cyber security skills gap.

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Cyber-security - skills and technology gaps are the missing pieces of the puzzle

The skills gap extends inevitably to the cyber-security field.

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Cyber-criminals are the new entrepreneurs in an age of the "feral" Internet of Things

Some stark conclusions about the current worldview around cyber-security.

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Samsung study pitches upbeat view of AI - or does it?

A positive assessment of Artificial Intelligence in a report from the electronics giant, but with necessary skepticism about its aims and presentation.

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Jobs for Bots - Why the UK must grab the automation opportunity

Whilst the media obsesses over how robots are coming for all of our jobs, a new government-backed report claims that we actually have too few robots in the workplace.

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