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!

The Future of Retail may be in the Cloud

The retail industry has transformed significantly over the past few decades, and retailers are starting to understand that they cannot simply rely on traditional brick-and-mortar strategies. McKinsey consultant Stefan Niemeier explains, “[Business technology] will be a major change for traditional store-based retail. Consider a big-box format with a 35 percent gross margin and 3 percent… Read more The Future of Retail may be in the Cloud

How cloud computing contributes to autonomous driving - a thought experiment.

During his guest lecture at Stanford University, Dean Paron (Microsoft Azure) mentioned a fascinating argument about the importance of cloud computing which stayed present in my mind until now: The amount of data generated by an autonomous car is so high that cloud computing is one of the enablement factors which make autonomous driving in… Read more How cloud computing contributes to autonomous driving - a thought experiment.

The Leverage of Bare Metal for Oracle Cloud

On year 2016, Oracle announced its Bare Metal Cloud as the company’s next-generation offering. Later Bare Metal Cloud got renamed into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), to be differentiated from Oracle’s existing 1st generation of cloud service offering, which is called Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic (OCI-C). Since then, OCI is under heavy development by talents acquired from other top cloud… Read more The Leverage of Bare Metal for Oracle Cloud