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Lidar: Location Sensing to Become Ubiquitous as Costs Plummet

By Dick Weisinger

Lidar, a kind of light-based radar, is a method that uses lasers to measure distances. Lidar pulses can span across a large range and collect 3D digital position data about a scanned target. Lidar is similar to the echo-location techniques…

A Canonical AI Stack: Helping Small Organizations Leap Frog Their Way into AI

By Dick Weisinger

How can small tech companies compete against big tech ones? Small companies don’t have the infrastructure, all around talent, troves of data, and the resources that big ones do. To help the smaller companies, an alliance of smaller companies have…

Data Mesh: Avoiding the Swamp of Centralization

By Dick Weisinger

The centralization of data has been a core design concept of enterprise data management. Data platforms like data lakes and data warehouses try to pool data from dispersed systems into a central access point so that all data can be…

Multi-Modal AI: Algorithms That Use Audio, Visual and Tactile Data

By Dick Weisinger

Computers are mastering how to interpret images and audio. Increasingly AI models are incorporating not just a single sensory set of data, like for vision, sound, and touch, but as an aggregate of information from multiple sources, something being called…

Decentralizing Data: Escape from Command and Control

By Dick Weisinger

Centralization has advantages. Big volumes mean that that there can be a focused vision on standardization, efficiencies, and cost savings. Data is more easily secured, stored and managed. Reporting is easier, and when there is abundant data, business analysis and…