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Industry 4.0: Are Manufacturers Ready for Revolution?

By Dick Weisinger

Are manufacturers ready to take on new ‘smart manufacturing’ technologies like Cloud Computing, Cognitive Computing, IoT, automation, and a new generation of robotics? Unfortunately, the answer may be ‘No’. Only 13 percent of surveyed large and medium-sized manufacturers said that…

Lidar: Fine-Grained Laser-based Imaging and Measurement Tool

By Dick Weisinger

Lidar, a method for laser imaging and measurement, was first invented in the 1960s. The term Lidar is a combination of the words ‘laser’ and ‘radar’, and the technique is a method for accurately calculating distances. It is common now…

Artificial Intelligence: Industries Where AI Will Strike in 2019

By Dick Weisinger

AI is being hyped everywhere, but which industries are most likely to first begin? It’s actually likely that no industries will totally escape the coming disruptions from AI, but the following are a few of the industries where we may…

Serverless Computing: Letting Developers Focus on Code and Business Leaders Focus on Value

By Dick Weisinger

Serverless computing is a computing environment where developers can write software without needing to know the details of the server where the software will ultimately run. In general, developers don’t need to know server specs, storage, clustering or any configurations.…

Open Source: (Former) OS Projects Try to Fight Back by Changing Licensing Terms

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source projects are complaining that large cloud vendors like Amazon AWS are unfairly profiting from their intellectual property. Redis Labs has announced changes to their licensing and described their motives, saying that “some cloud providers have repeatedly taken advantage…