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Yearly Archives: 2017

CIOs: Focus is Increasingly on Business rather than Technology

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs are saying that increasingly their job is less IT-focused and more focused on the business. Gartner found that CIOs at top-performing organizations say that 56 percent of their time focuses on business outcomes and the remaining 44 percent is

Artificial Intelligence and Finance: FSB Warns that use of High-Speed Machine Trading Comes with Risk

By Dick Weisinger

The Financial Stability Board recently warned that a race among financial businesses to adopt AI may end up in a bad way. While AI has the potential for these businesses to cut their costs and also to allow them to

Artificial Intelligence Databases: Speeding Training for Machine and Deep Learning

By Dick Weisinger

One of Artificial Intelligence’s biggest roadblocks is data preparation and training.  Collecting and cleaning data and then training software on data to recognize patterns and develop some amount of insight takes a lot of time. New techniques to speed up

Artificial Intelligence: Reimagining the Brain

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics are becoming sophisticated enough to challenge humans at nearly every task. Do we humans have a reason to worry? There is no consensus among futurists. For those that are optimistic, there are a lot of things

Cloud Computing: AI and Machine Learning Workloads Growing Most Quickly

By Dick Weisinger

Despite worries of security, businesses are moving their data to the cloud.  But concerns are reducing. A survey by MIT Management Review sponsored by Google found that nearly three-quarters of businesses said that their confidence in cloud security had improved.