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Open Source: Both Hero and Villian of App Development

By Dick Weisinger

Applications based on open-source software are everywhere. The Linux Foundation estimates that most modern applications contain 70-90 percent open-source software. And by some estimates, 96 percent of all enterprise software is using some amount of open source. The advantage of…

Web 3.0: Can it Make the Internet More Democratic and Decentralized?

By Dick Weisinger

Today’s Internet experience is known as Web 2.0. It is dominated by social media, streaming, and big-tech advertising. Currently, just five companies control 80% of the global cloud infrastructure market: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Huawei. The successor to this…

Artificial Intelligence: Teaching Machines to Learn Like Children

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve experienced startling successes with artificial intelligence over the last decade, but many researchers view the current state of the field as having plateaued. Part of the problem is that the current AI algorithms require massive amounts of data for…

Digital Manufacturing: Bringing Change to Supply Chain and Factory Operations

By Dick Weisinger

Manufacturing is going digital. Over 90 percent of manufacturers are adopting digital techniques, according to a manufacturing report from fictiv. Manufacturers are prioritizing customer satisfaction and supply chain visibility as their top two reasons for adopting digital, and 93 percent…

Industrial Devices: Riddled with Vulnerabilities

By Dick Weisinger

Just like the consumer products used in your home, electronics used in devices for manufacturing and other industrial purposes contain computer chips that are programmed to perform very specialized tasks. Devices used for controlling industrial equipment are called Operational Technology…