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Coding: Python is the Preferred Data Language

By Dick Weisinger

Python is ranked as the most popular language for AI. A survey of 1000 developers by Burtch Works ranked software languages for working with analytics, AI, and machine learning. 41 percent said that they preferred Python. 30 percent preferred R,…

Simulation: Modeling the World to Understand and Improve It

By Dick Weisinger

Computer simulation has been used for decades to understand and predict complex interactions. As computers have grow increasingly powerful so have the capabilities of simulation. Alex Chadwick, computer scientist from Cambridge University, said that between 1970 and the early 2000s…

Cloud Security: Problems Arise from Lack of Planning and Training

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses will spend more than $100 billion globally this year on security, according to analyst firm IDC. Increasingly, more of those budgets are directed towards cloud security. Cloud security in 2018 accounted for 18 percent of the total, but it…

Patents: Can Inventions by AI be Patented?

By Dick Weisinger

Can patents be issued for technology or algorithms derived by artificial intelligence? That’s a problem that lawyers and researchers are now grappling with. Law firm Baker McKenzie predicts that “patentability of AI-created inventions, liability for infringement by AI, and patent…

Hardware: Growth in AI and Self-Driving Cars will Rescue Semiconductors. But When?

By Dick Weisinger

Sales of semiconductors have plunged in 2019. A weaker economy, the US trade war with China, and an oversupply of memory chips. The slump in semiconductors is the biggest since the 2008 recession. Predictions from Gartner and other analysts are…