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Hyperautomation: When Ordinary Automation isn’t Fast Enough

By Dick Weisinger

How fast is fast? Businesses have been able to speed up existing workflows within by using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to automate tasks that are usually repetitive and tedious. Gartner has started to use the term ‘hyperautomation’ to describe automation…

Open Source Trademarks: Companies Push Back Against Google

By Dick Weisinger

The Open Usage Commons (OUC) is a new project established by Google for managing trademarks and their usage for Open Source projects. But not all projects think this approach is a good idea. OUC promises that my letting them manage…

Technology: Machines Capable of Human Sense

By Dick Weisinger

Machines are learning how to sense. Devices and sensors are enabling machines to be able to mimic how human senses function. The technology will enable the creation of devices that both augment human senses and make machines more capable. Bernie…

AI and Patents: Algorithms Aren’t Inventors

By Dick Weisinger

Inventions and AI have been a subject for debate. Can an AI algorithm that comes up with a novel approach to solving a problem patent that idea? Earlier this year, the US Trademark and Patent Office (USTPO) ruled that the…

Federated Machine Learning: Training ML Algorithms with Anonymous Data

By Dick Weisinger

Federated Learning is a way to train machine learning algorithms on data that is partitioned and distributed across many servers that each train on a subset of all data, then send their trained algorithm parameters back to a central server…