Arshin Jain

Artificial Intelligence helps create startups to solve different problems

Last week, I enjoyed hearing about how Machine Learning helped Pinterest start up and scale to support the needs for millions of users, by Jure Leskovec who is the Chief Scientist at Pinterest and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His talk inspired me to look at the current landscape of artificial… Read more Artificial Intelligence helps create startups to solve different problems

Security Concerns with Public WiFi Hotspots

Last week, I asked Mr. Herrod about the concerns in cyber security with growing adoption and push towards public wireless hotspot connections and he expressed deep concerns. Steve Herrod is the Managing Director at General Catalyst and ex-CTO at VMware. “In our generation Wi-Fi is a necessity and its required to have a social life” In this era of connectivity,… Read more Security Concerns with Public WiFi Hotspots

Driving Innovation: Corporations such as IBM have enabled access to their Cognitive Computing and AI algorithms

We all hear about the wonders AI and Cognitive Computing can bring to our lives, but how does this work? Do large corporations take responsibility to develop and research on potential applications? Thankfully, corporations such as IBM are allowing anyone to use their algorithms without publicly exposing the algorithms themselves. This access is provided through… Read more Driving Innovation: Corporations such as IBM have enabled access to their Cognitive Computing and AI algorithms

How Cloud Services are Spurring Innovation

In building a software product or application, a major challenge was to gain access to the tools and resources to build applications as personal projects, games, to address community needs, etc. Cloud service providers, such as Salesforce’s Heroku, provides a free tier service with enough computational power to effectively test the product with over a couple… Read more How Cloud Services are Spurring Innovation