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Blockchain: Failing to Live up to the Hype as Projects Flounder

By Dick Weisinger

Interest over the last few years in blockchain has been very strong.  Businesses across a variety of industries announced plans to invest in blockchain with goals of disrupting status quo models for doing business. Few of those projects  have yet…

Infrastructure as a Service: Four Vendors Dominate IaaS Market

By Dick Weisinger

Four vendors dominate the Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market, according to a study by Gartner: Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Google.  The global IaaS market grew nearly 30 percent in 2017, reaching $23.5 billion. Sid Nag, research…

Neuromorphic Chips: Building Intelligent Systems that are ‘Always On’

By Dick Weisinger

Neuromorphic chips are designed to mimic the computing pathways and characteristics of neurons in the brain.  The idea of modeling computers on the workings of human brains isn’t new.  Scientists made early attempts in the 1980’s using analog circuitry. Standard…

Mega Breaches: Expensive in Terms of Both Dollars and Reputation

By Dick Weisinger

Megabreaches – security lapses that result in millions and millions of records being lost are becoming more common.  There’s enough examples available now that studies are being conducted to determine just what went wrong. IBM recently made a study of…

Artificial Intelligence: Using Light and Optics to Advance State-of-the-Art AI

By Dick Weisinger

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms currently require training, and lot’s of it. Lots and lots of data, and lots and lots of computer cycle crunching. Often days or weeks of time are needed. Some researchers are investigating better ways…