Nic Ogata

Internet of Things (IoT) & Entertainment Industry

This week’s guest speaker, Nick Colsey, VP of Business Development at Sony, made a rather interesting claim: “Smart TV changed the way content was distributed, but it didn’t particularly change the way content was made.”1 I believe his claim is partially true and partially false. It is correct that there are more distribution channels due… Read more Internet of Things (IoT) & Entertainment Industry

A/B Testing: The Past, Today, and the Future

This week’s guest speaker, Suja Viswesan, director of engineering at LinkedIn, talked about A/B testing, a very important component of LinkedIn’s initiative called “People You May Know.” She stated, “A/B testing is the only way to prove causality and quantify feature impact.”1 Building the right product based on big data is challenging in itself. A/B… Read more A/B Testing: The Past, Today, and the Future

Government and Technology: Initiative to Move Old Infrastructures to Public Cloud

With a few exceptions, federal, state and local governments have not been considered the forefront of technology. This largely stems from very visible governmental agencies, such as the DMV and USPS, being notoriously inefficient. From this perspective, this week’s guest speaker, Richard Rogers, was particularly interesting, as very few people think of any government agencies… Read more Government and Technology: Initiative to Move Old Infrastructures to Public Cloud

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

Start-up Environment in China

Carl Eschenbach, this week’s guest speaker, made a rather intriguing comment about the start-up environment in China. While comparing two lists of tech companies with top capitalizations in 1992 and 2017, he mentioned, “The companies from China already have the top capitalizations in the world. My guess would be, if we spent one year [.… Read more Start-up Environment in China