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Yearly Archives: 2016

Neuromorphic Chips: Using Animal Brains as a Model for Computing

By Dick Weisinger

Strong interest in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is driving rapid advances into the basic elements of computers are architected.  GPUs are one example — a GPU consists of a large number of processor cores that can all work in…

Big Data: Apache Arrow for Faster and More Efficient Management of Columnar Data

By Dick Weisinger

The Apache Software Foundation recently released Arrow as a new top-level project.  Arrow is embeddable software that enables columnar in-memory processing.  Structured data is usually managed with SQL operating on rows of a database.  Column operations are often tricky to…

Security: No End In Sight to Massive Data Breaches in 2016

By Dick Weisinger

The number of data breaches reported in 2015 was 781, two short of the 783 breaches reported in 2014, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).  As of early February 2016, 69 breaches have already been reported for the year.…

Robotics: Explosive Growth in Use of Robots Touches Even Factories in China

By Dick Weisinger

The use of robots is expanding beyond just the factory floor.  Robots today can be found in many different fields, like healthcare, logistics, defense, homecare and even emergency response.  A report by the International Federation of Robots (IFR) expects the global…

Enterprise Software: Containers Expected to Sweep Enterprise IT in 2016

By Dick Weisinger

Containers topped the lists for one of the hottest IT technologies for 2016. Serdar Yegulalp of Infoworld, for example, wrote that “with nearly every major IT product either adopting them outright or building in support for them, containers are guaranteed…