OMG! International Group Wants to Drive Standards for AI ‘Foundational Capabilities’
On opening day of this week’s AI World Conference today in Boston, the Object Management Group (OMG), an international technology standards organization, said it has begun work on a baseline ...Full Article
IBM Watson Targets AI’s Data Snags
IBM continues to ramp up its Watson AI offerings as adoption of automation technology remains limited, in part due to what company executives say is a lack of data ...Full Article
Oracle’s Mark Hurd Dies at 62
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd, who was at that company for nearly 10 years and who played a lead in Oracle’s move into public cloud computing, has died at age ...Full Article
Gartner: As AI Goes Mainstream, So Do New Security Threats
As if there weren’t enough security challenges, a forecast for the coming year warns the brave new world of AI and machine learning brings with it a whole new ...Full Article
IBM Announces New Watson AI, IBM Cloud Capabilities, Customers
IBM this afternoon issued several updates to its public cloud and Watson AI portfolios, including news that Aegean Airlines, BNP Paribas, ExxonMobil, Elaw Tecnologia SA (a Brazil-based legal management ...Full Article
Updated: Worm Hits Docker Containers
A crypto-jacking worm, so-called because it spreads in spurts among unsecured images on servers, is said to be the first detected using Docker application containers. Palo Alto Network’s (NYSE: ...Full Article
SD-WAN and Enterprise Transformation
Whether its increased mobility, the migration of critical applications to the cloud or the adoption of SaaS, today’s modern enterprise is all about connectivity. Employees can now efficiently interact ...Full Article
Hot Demand for Hyperscale Data Centers Hampered by Skills Gap
Soaring demand for hyperscale data centers and colocation services is having a ripple effect within the value chain that builds and integrates those services, a new survey finds. As ...Full Article
John Deere Uses Machine Learning to Help Fewer Farmers Do More with Less
Farming and advanced AI may seem antithetical, but they’re not. Ask John Deere. The venerable farm equipment company has not only long embraced advanced technologies, the company for years ...Full Article
Federated Learning Applied to Cancer Research
The ability to share and analyze data while protecting patient privacy is giving medical researchers a new tool in their efforts to use what one vendor calls “federated learning” ...Full Article
