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Self-driving cars: adoption of a key IoT device

With Friday’s lecture focusing on the Internet of Things, including a remarkable talk by the co-founder of Tesla, I have chosen to consider the path of adoption of autonomous driving and associated challenges. After all, with autonomous cars predicted to use over 4000GB of data a day [1], I think they will be the biggest… Read more Self-driving cars: adoption of a key IoT device

Internet of Vehicles: Groundbreaking trends transforming auto industry

With the truth of Moore’s law resurfacing time and again, latest advancements in fields like wireless telecommunication, digitization, automation, virtualization, and high speeds of the internet have paved way for Internet of Things (IoT) to gain grounds, which is impacting several aspects of our everyday life. IoT has already played a major role in many… Read more Internet of Vehicles: Groundbreaking trends transforming auto industry

Digital Home Technology through the Cloud: Enabling Paradise or Potential Prison?

“Alexa order my grocery list and add one bag of peanut M&Ms to it.” “Alexa, cancel my events for Tuesday and call an Uber for me in two hours.” With a few simple sentences, I had saved myself about 3 hours of work, allowing me to peacefully enjoy my breakfast as I prepared to pick… Read more Digital Home Technology through the Cloud: Enabling Paradise or Potential Prison?

Google’s AI: From DeepMind to One Model

One of the most memorable events in AI history was IBM’s Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. In March 2016 history was rewritten as Google’s AlphaGo beat Go master Lee Sedol, then in May 2017 beating Go champion Ke Jie. Although AlphaGo’s win was all over the news and reached many people with its… Read more Google’s AI: From DeepMind to One Model

Data: An expensive necessity for AI and Machine Learning

AI and Machine Learning are two big buzzwords within Information Technology and StartUps.  Since 2002 more then $3.8B have been raised by AI companies [10]. Nonetheless the biggest players are established companies such as Google, Facebook etc.. This might just be temporarily as they have the “benefit” of size and economics, but some argue that… Read more Data: An expensive necessity for AI and Machine Learning

Rethinking Computing Itself

“The fundamental building blocks of our world are quantum mechanical, if you look at a molecule, the reason molecules form and are stable is because of the interactions of these electron orbitals. Each calculation in there, each orbital, is a quantum mechanical calculation” Dario Gil, VP for science and solutions at IBM Research [4] Since… Read more Rethinking Computing Itself

The Future of Data Storage: Cloud?

Data storage, as we know it, is primarily in the form of tapes, flash drives, hard disk drives and solid state storage. With data storage being the fastest growing semiconductor technology, the world is doubling storage capacity every 12-18 months [1]. Data storage firms are increasingly trying to push the boundaries of physical storage, with… Read more The Future of Data Storage: Cloud?

Two Tech Behemoths, Two Different Approaches

The way users interact with computers has steadily evolved over time and is arguably on the cusp of another inflection point. Our relationship and interaction with computing took-off with the advent of the keyboard, mouse and graphical user interface (GUI). It then shifted towards mobile with the introduction of the multi-touch screen. In an AI… Read more Two Tech Behemoths, Two Different Approaches

New Product breakthroughs with recent advances in deep learning and future business opportunities

Even though artificial intelligence was introduced in the early fifties, It has only been made attainable very recently thanks to the recent advances in deep learning, artificial neural networks, increased performance of transistors, latest advancements in GPUs, TPUs, and CPUs. Before going over the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in Google… Read more New Product breakthroughs with recent advances in deep learning and future business opportunities

Google Keynote Address

Initially, when I watched the Google IO 2017 Keynote I was blown away by its attractive presentation of upcoming products and mesmerized by the innovativeness, diversification of different product’s purpose and lastly how dominant Google was. Let me first tell you about the key announcements of these products and explain the commonalities of these different… Read more Google Keynote Address