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Repurposing Innovation: Turning Amazon’s Alexa into an Assistant in the Lab

By Dick Weisinger

Upcycle. Recycle. Reuse.  Inventors and businesses selling products for one purpose are often surprised when their products are used for purposes totally different from what they were originally designed. It happens frequently in the drug industry.  For example, drugs that have…

Shrinking IT: IT Must Transform from a Role of Support to one as Technology Advisor

By Dick Weisinger

IT is a department that is useful only to the extent that it supports the operations of other departments in the company. IT provides services and support for business projects in the organization.  Increasingly though, IT is viewed as an…

Business Technology: Best Performing Companies are Those Investing in Digitalization

By Dick Weisinger

CEOs are prioritizing digitalization as a top tool for helping them to gain advantage and efficiency, according to Gartner.  In fact, 42 percent of CEOs say that digitalization is helping them achieve business priorities of increased profit and growth. Andy Rowsell-Jones, research…

Natural Language Generation (NLG): Enabling Computers to Speak Up

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being applied to enable two-way interactions between humans and computers. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the ability of computers to parse and interpret human speech and writing in order determine what question or directive a human is posing.…

Security: Cyber Attackers set their Sites on Businesses Rather than Individuals

By Dick Weisinger

The good news for internet users in 2016 was that the total number of targeted cyber attacks against them was down 21 percent from the previous year, based on a study from Kaspersky Lab.  That’s 4.3 million attacks, down from…