Access and Feeds

Blog Archives

GPU Computing: Massive Inexpensive Parallel Processing with GPUs Challenge Standard CPUs

By Dick Weisinger

GPUs were originally designed to attack very data-intensive graphic processing problems, used for rendering very complex images and for graphics in games and multimedia, and hence their name Graphic Processing Units (GPU).  What makes GPUs so powerful is the massive…

Software Development: Developers Shift Their Focus to Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Software developers are shifting focus towards cloud development.  The cloud offers clear advantages when it comes to maintenance and updates.  The cloud also provides greater flexibility and agility. A Forrester report found that enterprises view cloud infrastructure as a better way…

Business Disruption: Most Businesses Expect Dramatic Changes, But Few Businesses Feel Prepared

By Dick Weisinger

Disruption is now the norm and is to be expected, say three-quarters of global senior executives interviewed by KPMG.  And those executives say the speed of change and disruption can only be expected to increase in the future.  But only…

Robots: Autonomous Robots Carrying Groceries Home Over the Last Mile

By Dick Weisinger

The next generation of home-delivery groceries may be made by robots.  While Amazon and Walmart are testing flying drones for delivery, a new company called Starships Technologies, is launching a land-based robot pickup and delivery service.  The company has developed…

Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms That Make Machines Intuitive

By Dick Weisinger

Slowly, computers are being taught intuition and reasoning.  An example of an early success of this work is an algorithm developed by Max Kanter and his thesis advisor, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).  The algorithm called…