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Artificial Intelligence: IBM’s Watson Project Suffers Backlash from Overhype

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence has been improving by leaps and bounds with many examples of results that have been stunning. But like anything, AI has had setbacks too. The IBM Watson project is one example of an AI project that was over-hyped,…

Internet of Things (IoT): Changing the Way that Businesses and Industries Work

By Dick Weisinger

Spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to see blowout growth according to IDC.  Spending is expected to reach $772 billion this year, a 15 percent gain over the amount spent last year.  Projections are for IoT spending…

Logistics: Every Company is a Software Company — and Many are Logistics Companies Now Too

By Dick Weisinger

Every business may now be a software company.  But many businesses now are becoming logistics companies too. Logistics has become a a key capability for many large businesses, and some businesses, like Amazon, are bringing their logistic capabilities fully in-house.…

Javascript: Popularity of Tools in the JS EcoSystem

By Dick Weisinger

A survey of 28,000 Javascript developers provide some insight into the direction that the Javascript language is taking.  Developers rate the Javascript language and the tools ecosystem that has been built up around it. Flavors of Javascript – ES6 dominates,…

Artificial Intelligence: Autonomous Unsupervised Machine Intelligence

By Dick Weisinger

“Generative Adversarial Networks” (GAN) are two AI programs that work side-by-side, the first is designed to generate something like an image or music, and the second algorithm judges the results of the first program. The feedback from the judging algorithm…