Author Archives: George Leopold

George Leopold

George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).

Tool Helps Automate Code Reviews

February 4th, 2019 Comments Off

Among the IT plumbing being automated is the painstaking review of software code via machine learning tools designed to scan source code for inconsistencies while suggesting fixes that promise to speed the review process, thereby getting software updates out ...

Chip Startup Accelerates AI with MRAM

January 31st, 2019 Comments Off

The AI chip market continues to heat up with the recent release of a series of AI accelerators with embedded memory that target the booming edge computing sector. Gyrfalcon Technology Inc. (GTI) said its “production-ready” ASIC, dubbed the Lightspeeur 2802M, incorporates ...

Google Predicts Big Year for ‘API-ification’

January 29th, 2019 Comments Off

Google Cloud introduced an API platform last July designed in part to give developers better visibility into the interconnections between, and the inner workings among, enterprise applications and data hosted in hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. The Apigee platform developed with ...

U.S. Moves to Get AI House in Order

January 25th, 2019 Comments Off

An AI advisory body established by the U.S. Congress will examine how the technology can be applied on the battlefield. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence was established by lawmakers in the most recent version of the Defense Department’s ...

Azure Gains in Multi-Cloud Shift, But Complexity Grows

January 24th, 2019 Comments Off

Microsoft Azure is benefitting most from the growing adoption of multiple cloud vendors, according to recent surveys of enterprise cloud managers. Perhaps the most revealing is an Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) user report released this week that found ...

IBM: Red Hat Gives Us Both Ends of Cloud

January 23rd, 2019 Comments Off

Emboldened by strong quarterly earnings and annual guidance, IBM executives again this week portrayed the company’s pending acquisition of open-source leader Red Hat as positioning it to lead the hybrid cloud segment. “When you look at Red Hat, for ...

Google Hit With GDPR Fine

January 23rd, 2019 Comments Off

Google got whacked again this week by European regulators for failing to comply with provisions of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation covering data collection used for targeted advertising. The French data regulator CNIL fined the search giant ...

Google Remains Top Open-Source Contributor

January 18th, 2019 Comments Off

Open-source software is akin to baseball and apple pie: Everyone approves, but few actually back up their commitment with code commits to the open-source community with few or no strings attached. According to a scan of code contributions to ...

IBM Unveils Hybrid Cloud Deals, Red Hat OKs Acquisition

January 17th, 2019 Comments Off

Red Hat shareholders approved the open-source leader’s acquisition by IBM this week, likely clearing the way for the mega-deal to close by the end of this year. IBM (NYSE: IBM) also announced separate cloud partnerships with Juniper Networks and Vodafone. ...

Digital Investments Seen Climbing in 2019

January 15th, 2019 Comments Off

Despite growing economic uncertainties, growth in investments and adoption of digital technologies such as AI, machine learning and cloid computing are expected to reach double digits in the coming year, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey commissioned by ...