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Collaborative Robotics: Machines that Work Alongside Humans

By Dick Weisinger

Robotic manufacturers are building a new generation of industrial robots, robots that are more capable of working side by side with humans.  These new robots are called ‘cobots‘ or collaborative robots.  Cobots are designed to work at a slower speed…

Data and Computations: (Bandwidth + Compute Power + Algorithms + Collaboration) = Turbocharged Research

By Dick Weisinger

The process of research can often be laboriously slow, often taking many years to even mark small steps forward.  But new technology is increasingly being applied by researchers work to greatly speed up the research process.  Increased bandwidth and compute…

Containers: Competitors to Docker Begin to Rise

By Dick Weisinger

Container packaging has been the rage over the past year.  Containerization has the potential to be highly disruptive to existing server virtualization, impacting existing businesses like VMware.  Containers are more efficient, lighter-weight, and speedier, and easier to automate than standard…

Programming Languages: Java Turns 20

By Dick Weisinger

Happy Birthday Java!  You’re no longer a teen.  This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Java programming language.  Java was originally developed at Sun Microsystems, but after the acquisition by Oracle in early 2010, Oracle now acts as the…

Internet: Rate of Internet Growth Slowing

By Dick Weisinger

Mary Meeker recently delivered her 20th consecutive annual review of the state of the internet in 197 slides.  Meeker had been an analyst and now works as a venture capitalist for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.  She talked about what’s…