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Security: Federal CIOs Step up Cybersecurity and Modernization

By Dick Weisinger

2020 was not a good year for US federal government cybersecurity. There were numerous small breaches, and then there was the huge Solarwinds breach revealed near the end of 2020. Cyberscurity concerns have grown and has become a top priority…

Artificial Intelligence: Downsizing to 8-bits to Balance Power and Performance

By Dick Weisinger

The computing industry has progressed from 8-bit computers, to 16-bit, 32-bit, and then 64-bit. With each new generation, the computers were more performant and significantly faster. So it seems odd and counterintuitive that AI researchers now say 8-bit computers may…

Nickel/Zinc Batteries: Safer Alternative to Lead-Acid and Lithium-Ion

By Dick Weisinger

The rechargeable Nickel/Zinc battery was patented by Thomas Edison in 1901 but ran into a problem with charging and was never able to bring the battery to market. In 1993, Morris Eisenberg at Stanford created an electrolyte that increased NiZn…

GPUs: Will the Current Demand for Graphics Chips Crash Later this Year?

By Dick Weisinger

The global chip shortage has hit the graphics card and GPU market particularly hard. Demand is high, but Nvidia and AMD haven’t been able to keep up with it. The GPU market is expected to grow about 12 percent annually…

GPT-3 Competition: Rapid Development of Massive Natural Language Systems

By Dick Weisinger

GPT-3 has received reviews of astonishment since it was first announced in late May 2020 by OpenAI. GPT-3 (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3) is the third generation of natural language processing models developed by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research operation originally…