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Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.
More Academic Rigor – and Less Hype – Are Needed to Solve AI Bias Problems
May 5th, 2021
Let’s face it: We’re infatuated with AI. From smart chatbots to image recognition to self-driving cars, we’re absolutely enamored with the superpower-like abilities it gives us. But unless we incorporate stronger processes to identify and remediate biased data and ...
To Solve AI Ethics Gaps, We Must First Acknowledge The Problem Exists
April 14th, 2021
Companies are adopting AI solutions at unprecedented rates, but ethical worries continue to dog the roll outs. While there are no established standards for AI ethics, a common set of guidelines is beginning to emerge to help bridge the ...
Global Chip Shortage Is Negatively Impacting AI Workloads in the Cloud
March 15th, 2021
If you’re finding it harder to get access to GPUs in the cloud to train your AI models lately, you’re not alone. The combination of a global chip shortage and increased demand for AI model training is apparently leading ...
Digital Twins and AI Helping Industries Stay Flexible During COVID-19 Uncertainties
March 2nd, 2021
When COVID-19 clobbered all of humanity in early 2020, the resulting government lockdowns in countries and communities across the world negatively impacted entire industries and turned people's lives and whole economies upside down. For many, a full recovery may ...
U.S. Leads World in AI, But Here Comes China
January 27th, 2021
The United States is maintaining its early lead over China and the European Union in development and application of artificial intelligence technology, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). But while the Americans’ ...
Former Qualcomm CEO Signs On As Advisor to 5G Chipmaker EdgeQ
January 26th, 2021
EdgeQ, a Silicon Valley startup that’s building a customizable RISC-V system-on-a-chip (SoC) that includes a 5G modem, got a big boost today when it announced that former Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs has signed on as an advisor to the ...
Don’t Be Too Quick Trusting That 2020 Data in Your 2021 IT Planning
December 22nd, 2020
As companies approach their 2021 business planning after the current tumultuous, pandemic-decimated year, it might be a wise idea to use plenty of care when using 2020 business data to make any kinds of projections for the new year. ...
Predictive Analytics Firm C3.ai Files for IPO
November 16th, 2020
C3.ai, the predictive analytics firm founded by CRM giant Tom Siebel, Friday announced plans for an initial public offering (IPO) of stock. It intends to trade shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “AI.” While ...
MemVerge Wants to Make Big Memory Systems More Accessible
September 23rd, 2020
Organizations that need to process large amounts of data in real time will be the big winners of the emerging “big memory” era, says Charles Fan, the CEO and co-founder of MemVerge, which today unveiled new software designed to ...
AWS re:Invent Goes Virtual (and Free) as COVID-19 Conference Cancellations Continue
August 3rd, 2020
AWS re:Invent has been re-imagined as a free, three-week virtual conference taking place in early December, Amazon Web Services announced last week, as the fall lineup of physical tech conferences continues to dwindle as a result of the COVID-19 ...
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