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IDC’s 3rd Platform: Predictions on the Direction of the Cloud, Big Data and Mobile in 2015

By Dick Weisinger

IDC recently released their predictions for the direction of IT in 2015.  These include: Within the ICT segment, one third of the spending will be on what IDC calls ‘3rd platform‘.  IDC refers to technologies like Cloud Computing, Big Data,…

Artificial Intelligence: Futurists Worry of AI and Robots Going Rampant

By Dick Weisinger

Scientists, entrepreneurs, futurists and investors have joined together to issue a warning about what the future of technology may bring.  Without oversight and understanding, technology like artificial intelligence may overreach it’s intended purpose and unleash unwanted safety and social problems.…

Smart Cities: Living in a World of Perpetual Beta

By Dick Weisinger

The idea of smart cities is taking off.  Around the world, cities and their architects are pledging to make their cities smart. Smart cities have sustainable energy and development; they have an integrated information, communications and technology (ICT) system; they…

Software Development: Scientific Research Jeopardized by Black-Box Software

By Dick Weisinger

In 2009, a scandal nicknamed ‘Climategate‘ hit the scientific community in the UK after hackers broke into the computers of the University of East Anglia.  The researchers had refused to release the data analysis software for public review that they…

Security: DNS and BGP Provide Shaky Foundation for Today’s Internet

By Dick Weisinger

Two foundations of the Internet are DNS and BGP.  The Domain Name System (DNS) determines where information will flow.  The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) determines the route taken to deliver the information.  The problem is that these systems were designed…