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Digital Transformation: Businesses Continue to Accelerate Towards Digital in 2021

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner predicts that global IT spending in 2021 will be close to $4 trillion, a 6.2 percent increase from 2021. Digital transformation is one area that is driving growth. A study by McKinsey found that many businesses were pressured into…

Algorithmic Accountability: Making Software Fair and Accurate

By Dick Weisinger

Our world is increasingly being run by algorithms, and unfortunately many of those algorithms are flawed or be biased. Francella Ochillo, the general counsel for the National Hispanic Media Coalition, said that “algorithms control various aspects of a digital economy.…

Artificial Intelligence 2.0: Five New Techniques Helping AI to Evolve

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester Predictions 2021 said that “the ‘great lockdown’ of 2020 will make the drive for automation in 2021 both inevitable and irreversible. Remote work, new digital muscles, and pandemic constraints will create millions of pragmatic automations in 2021; document extraction,…

Intelligent Automation: AI Pushes Automation to Even Greater Efficiencies

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence is improving the tools used for automation. The convergence of RPA with AI and machine learning (ML) is being called ‘intelligent automation’. RPA continues to be used for process step automation while AI and ML can automate decision…

Open Hardware: Open-Source Sharing of Hardware Specifications

By Dick Weisinger

The success of Open Source software is leading many to wonder whether a similar model would work with hardware. “Open hardware” or “open source hardware” are design and manufacturing specification that are available publicly for study, modification, and manufacturing. The…