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Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight, The Panopticon Penitentiary and The Democratic Geneva Convention. Same Same but not all that different.

Fact: Your body sheds 50 million skin cells every day in homeostatic conditions. Fact: An American adult will spend up to 11 hours per day engaging in watching, reading, listening or simply interacting with media on a daily basis. Our dermis carries in it our DNA telling a story of our epigenetic environment. Similarly, the… Read more Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight, The Panopticon Penitentiary and The Democratic Geneva Convention. Same Same but not all that different.

IoT Networks for Good and Bad...

A little over a decade ago the mobile phone was our only personal connected device (permitting our phone had Bluetooth or WiFi connectivity). Today this number is swelling substantially with, in addition to the personal smartphone, smart watches, wireless earphones, smart keys and maybe even smart shoes and connected glasses adding to list of personal… Read more IoT Networks for Good and Bad...

AI “assistants”: What do they know? Do they know things? Let’s find out!

When Apple first introduced Siri back in 2011 alongside the iPhone 4s, reception ranged from excitement for the prospect of virtualized assistants, to the fear of an Ellison-esque dystopian future where our AI overlords run rampant. Regardless of which camp you fell into, this marked a major shift in the zeitgeist of the average tech… Read more AI “assistants”: What do they know? Do they know things? Let’s find out!

Why China is taking over the cloud computing market

You’d be wise to assume that the fastest growing cloud computing company is one of the big 3; Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Though they may operate the largest networks of data centers yet they are definitely not the fastest growing companies in the cloud computing segment. [1] That honor belongs to Chinese giant Alibaba, in… Read more Why China is taking over the cloud computing market

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

Diving through the layers of Artificial Intelligence

When reading about artificial intelligence we see terms like neural networks, deep learning, machine learning, reinforcement learning and more thrown about. Some of these terms are often interrelated and can be substituted to discuss the same subject matter, whereas others are mutually exclusive. In this post, I aim to provide clarity on the various subgroups… Read more Diving through the layers of Artificial Intelligence

Data Centers as Microgrids

The U.S. Department of Energy reported that in “2014 the total power consumption of data centers was estimated at 70 billion kWh, which equated to approximately 1.8% of the the total U.S. electrical energy consumption.” [1] It is not unreasonable to see data centers constructed with the capacity to support over 100 MegaWatts of power,… Read more Data Centers as Microgrids

Emotion recognition for good or evil?

In the 1970s Paul Ekman pioneered the study of facial expressions by creating a catalog of more than 5,000 muscle movements to show how expressions reveal hidden emotions (1). Today AI and machine learning teach machines to understand and react to our emotions. Vaish and Kumari defines emotion as “a psycho-physiological process triggered by conscious… Read more Emotion recognition for good or evil?

Big Data in the Cloud

So you have decided that you’re ready to implement a big data solution and you plan to do it in the cloud. How will you choose what’s best for your organization? With all of the hoopla around big data, NoSQL and the like, this blog will provide some background and a review of the options… Read more Big Data in the Cloud

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