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Intellectual Property: Large Companies Increasingly Rely on Huge Troves of Patents and IP to Block Competition

By Dick Weisinger

In recent weeks, there have been numerous prominent news stories focused on Intellectual Property (IP) rights.  Companies have been exchanging billions of dollars to obtain patents and there have been court room battles over licensing and intellectual property ownership. Intellectual…

Federal Cloud Computing: Cloud Readiness Varies Widely Across Agencies

By Dick Weisinger

Overall, across all of federal government, cloud acceptance and adoption is expected to quite fast.  A report by CDW found that as of the summer of 2011 already 41 percent of federal government agencies had a written plan in place…

CIOs: Can the Role of CIO Survive? Not as it's currently defined.

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs get no respect.  Gartner found in a survey of CEOs that only 4 percent of them consider their CIO as a partner in managing their strategy and innovation. CIOs want to change that perspective.  And increasingly the CIO is…

Security/Cybercrime: Are Losses Out of Control — or Over-exagerated?

By Dick Weisinger

“Cybercrime is bigger than the global black market in marijuana cocaine and heroin combined ($288 billion) and approaching the value of all global drug trafficking ($411 billion)”  reports Norton (a Symantec company) on a 2011 summary infographic about cybercrime. Weysan…

Machine Intelligence: Will Machines Soon Be Able to Ace the Turing Test?

By Dick Weisinger

In a 1950 paper, Alan Turing proposed the question ‘Can machines think?’.  That question inspired scientists and engineers working in the field of ‘artificial intelligence’.  Turing proposed that a machine could be considered as able to ‘think’ if it could…