Category: Week2

MindSphere – The Internet of Things by Siemens

MindSphere – The Internet of Things by Siemens By Victor Moran Siemens is a German company founded back in 1847 by Werner Von Siemens (1). With over 377,000 employees worldwide and a revenue of €83.0 billion in 2017, the company is a global leader in the fields of electrification, automation and most recently, digitalization (2).… Read more MindSphere – The Internet of Things by Siemens

A New Billow On The Horizon: Car Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services over the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis. So, it is no longer necessary to build and own IT infrastructures, but simply rent them. This reduces overheads and complexity within an organization and for customers as well. Moreover, cloud computing can be split into three different models:… Read more A New Billow On The Horizon: Car Cloud Computing

The CIOs Dilemma

Introduction – “Necessity is the mother of invention” Our world is changing. Aging digital infrastructure, inadequate transportation monitoring & limited energy resources are will have a severe influence on how we live in the future. The only sparking news is that cloud computing is enabling access to massive amounts of data and computational power enabling us to… Read more The CIOs Dilemma

Do you ever feel like you're being watched?

You start typing something into Google and it finishes your sentence, you ask Alexa to play music and she starts playing your favorite songs, the ads you see on your phone and your computer are the things you’ve been saving up to buy. Suddenly, you realize the internet is your best friend and it knows… Read more Do you ever feel like you're being watched?

Now the time is right for AI to put health care on its head

Technological development in the realm of artificial intelligence is increasingly picking up speed and, consequently, many industries have come to experience AI’s vast potential. Particularly, the industry surrounding health care is deemed to change drastically in the age of artificial intelligence. According to a past research paper by the analyst firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) (5), there… Read more Now the time is right for AI to put health care on its head

How Cloud Computing is Enabling Omni-Channel Experiences

Cloud computing – in a sentence – is essentially storage/hardware/data that is made accessible by the internet. You can access your data from any internet enabled device. The implications of this however, are extremely complicated and cannot be put into a single sentence. Dean Paron in last week’s guest lecture spoke about the use of… Read more How Cloud Computing is Enabling Omni-Channel Experiences

How 2018 Software is Different From 2004

During her presentation to class on Friday, Jetlore’s COO Montse Medina shared the story of how Jetlore got started, and specifically how software in 2018 is different from 2008. Her startup story remind me of my own. In 2004, I co-founded CollectiveTrust Solutions to develop anti-phishing technologies. I was coming off of five years building… Read more How 2018 Software is Different From 2004

HOW WILL WE BUY CLOTHES IN THE FUTURE?

https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/stores-details/?StoreID=10200083&source=stores Jetlore, an AI-based prediction company, was founded by three people including Montse Medina, who was our guest speaker. Their prediction systems have been integrated with big retailors in the world such as eBay, Paypal and UNIQLO. [1] Retailors are always facing difficulties in forecasting the demand of their customers since if they miscalculate it,… Read more HOW WILL WE BUY CLOTHES IN THE FUTURE?

Hybrid Environment: Bridge between Public and Private Cloud Computing

This week’s guest speaker Dean Paron, a veteran of Microsoft, talked about Microsoft’s public cloud computing service, Azure. During the class, he presented a few case studies. The first was an NGO called Urban Refuge that created a mobile app to locate refugees in urban areas using Azure’s public cloud computing service. Another was a… Read more Hybrid Environment: Bridge between Public and Private Cloud Computing

Is Blockchain a future? Yes, of course!

Blockchain is definitely one of the “hot” buzzwords nowadays. What is Blockchain exactly? There are many explanations of Blockchain. I love this definition [1] from The Wall Street Journal. “A blockchain is a data structure that makes it possible to create a digital ledger of transactions and share it among a distributed network of computers.… Read more Is Blockchain a future? Yes, of course!