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Headless Computing: Using APIs to Glue Best-of-Breed Back-End Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

Headless refers to the decoupling of the front end user GUI experience with the backend data and functionality. In 2019, headless content management became popular. Headless e-commerce solutions are expected to proliferate in 2020. Headless pulls together a collection of…

Artificial Intelligence Chips: GPU Competitors

By Dick Weisinger

It wasn’t meant to be, but today’s AI industry has a strong focus on the GPU chip. GPUs were originally designed for high-end compute-intense processing for graphics, but they have been increasingly used in AI, especially for deep learning and…

Quantum Computing: Building Qubits from Silicon

By Dick Weisinger

Next-generation computers are expected to be based on principles from quantum computing. Computers of the future are expected to be able to performs many orders of magnitude faster than the computers we use today. While the foundation of computers today…

Software: Facebook’s ‘Walled Garden’ Vision

By Dick Weisinger

Dissatisfied with Mac OS and Google’s Android on smartphones, Facebook is investing in the development of a new Operating Systems. The approach would allow Facebook to be a “walled garden” that would allow it total control over all aspects of…

Edge Computing: Doing Computing Locally

By Dick Weisinger

Number 6 on Gartner’s list of top 10 Technology Trends for 2020 is Edge Computing, a computing architecture where computing is performed on non-centralized devices located on the fringe of a network. The Edge Computing Model is basically the inverse…