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Digital Transformation: CIOs are Spending more in 2021

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs are on schedule to increase IT spending by 8 percent in 2021, according to Gartner. Andy Rowsell-Jones, research VP at Gartner, said that “the support for remote work that the COVID-19 pandemic brought on might be the biggest win…

Robotics: Teaching Robots how to Interact with the “Theory of Intent”

By Dick Weisinger

“Theory of Intent” or “Theory of Mind” is an explanation for how humans communicate their intent through their actions and signals. Humans are instinctively able to anticipate how other humans will respond under certain conditions. This allows humans to quickly…

Security: COVID-19 Accelerates Cybersecurity and Cloud Migration Plans

By Dick Weisinger

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transformation of approach towards cybersecurity and the cloud by businesses. It has especially affected businesses with more than 500 employees — in these larger businesses, nearly 75 percent said that they have accelerated their…

IoT and Sensors: Making Monitoring of Transportation Infrastructure More Efficient

By Dick Weisinger

Sensors are essential components of IoT. Sensors capture data like temperature, humidity, pressure, light, and sound, for processing by the IoT device. There are more than 100 different kinds of sensors. One application of IoT is for monitoring infrastructure in…

Security: Building the Successor to OAuth

By Dick Weisinger

OAuth is an open standard for authorization that enables clients to access applications via a secure token over https rather than with login credentials. OAuth 2.0 is the current and most frequently used version. OAuth 1.0a, the previous version, was…