Tag: AI
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Link: Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off
“Full fiscal year subscription revenue hit $2.6 billion, up 21 per cent year-over-year” Original source: Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off
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Link: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs
Gartner “predicted that, by 2020, 75% of organisations will experience visible business disruptions because of I&O skills gaps – a big jump from less than 20% in 2016.” Original source: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs
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Link: A look inside American Family Insurance’s digital transformation office
“More specifically, our definition will include leveraging technologies, such as AI, machine learning or robotic process automation, but it’s really about data and how we’ll utilize it. Like most insurers, we have decades of outcome data. Now, with evolving capabilities, the availability of new data sources and advances in analytical modeling, we can marry historical…
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Link: Amazon is coming for the insurance industry – should we be worried?
“While UK insurers are investing in tech and providing digital services, the majority are light years behind Amazon,” noted Davies. “If insurers are not careful, they may be pushed out of having a direct relationship with customers and be relegated to the role of a price-driven risk carrier at the back end (assuming Amazon doesn’t…
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Link: Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence
“Local-Variable Type Inference: Enhances the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers. It introduces var to Java, something that is common in other languages. Consolidate the JDK Forest into a Single Repository: Combine the numerous repositories of the JDK forest into a single repository to simplify and streamline development.…
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Javvad Malik on security & being an industry analyst – Software Defined Interviews #67
Security, security, security! Everyone wants security, at least they say so. How it’s actually managed and even conceptualized in organizations is a lot more than just patching software and using CAPTCHA’s. In this discussion, Coté talks with Javvad Malik who’s been in the security business for countless years. In addition to talking about how security…
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Link: Moogsoft gets $40m round D
“Moogsoft claims to have more than doubled revenue in the past year thanks to new customer wins. The startup counts Cisco Systems Inc., T-Mobile USA Inc., Intuit Inc. and other major tech firms among its users.” Original source: Moogsoft gets $40m round D
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Link: Mayor of London Calls for Regulation of the Tech Industry
“Tech companies, innovators, must take responsibilities for how their platforms are used, Khan said. He also called on politicians and policymakers to look out for the public and pass regulation when necessary.” Original source: Mayor of London Calls for Regulation of the Tech Industry
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Link: Digital Twin initiatives set to take enterprise center stage: Gartner
“Gartner revealed the results of a survey which suggests that 48 percent of companies which are already enjoying the benefits of IoT are using, or plan to use Digital Twin by the end of 2018.” Original source: Digital Twin initiatives set to take enterprise center stage: Gartner
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Dominic Wellington on machine learning, or, shadows in the datacenter – Software Defined Interviews #66
If you only followed the daily headlines, AI and machine learning seem like a magical technologies that will either solve all our problems or put everyone out of work. In reality, there’s little to know AI and machine learning, though complex, has many practical uses. While they’re often delightful, there’re not mystical. Coté discusses how…
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Link: Will open source software become a ‘tragedy of the commons’?
I love this concept of tragedy of the anti-commons: “Strong management can stop this overuse. But because contributors haven’t been able to derive value through a platform built just for them, they must look for other ways to gain value, perhaps through the addition of intellectual property. And this leads us into the tragedy of…
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Link: Why Haier Is Reorganizing Itself around the Internet of Things
There’s of course Halo Effect to look at over 5 years with this kind of thing, but here’s a relatively new model for corporate strategic and operational “culture.” Plus, Sheinhardt Wig Company microwaves. Original source: Why Haier Is Reorganizing Itself around the Internet of Things
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Link: To Build a More Capable Cyber Policy Field, Teach Policy to Technologists
If you want to change government with IT, first make sure you understand how government works before you go and try to debug and refactor it. Original source: To Build a More Capable Cyber Policy Field, Teach Policy to Technologists
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Link: Technologist’s Hippocratic Oath
“Even with the formidable power we wield on day-to-day lives as engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, etc., there is very little education and oversight on ethics in our industry.” Original source: Technologist’s Hippocratic Oath
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Link: Why Software Developers Should Take Ethics Into Consideration
“[Developers are ]not asking themselves, what are the ethical consequences of this? Who could get hurt by this? Who does this enable over another person? Who does this disadvantage or advantage? They’re not asking those questions. My goal is to have that part of the natural sequence of developing software.” Original source: Why Software Developers…
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Link: Info Commissioner tears into Google’s ‘call us journalists’ trial defence
‘This argument enraged the ICO, which said in the submission: “The concept of ‘journalism’ presupposes a process by which content is published to an audience pursuant to the taking of human editorial decisions as to the substantive nature and extent of that content.”… In plain English, humans (mostly) don’t decide what appears in search results…
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Link: Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite?
‘More significantly, the whole of society seems to have woken up to the fact there is a psychological cost to constant checking, swiping and staring. A growing number of my friends now have “no phone” times, don’t instantly sign into the cafe wifi, or have weekends away without their computers. This behaviour is no longer…
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Link: The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech
“[W]e shouldn’t have to depend on journalism to do the tedious, serious work of understanding the problems with algorithms any more than we depend on it to pursue the latest questions in sociology or environmental science.” More: “There is essentially no distinct field of academic study that takes seriously the responsibility of understanding and critiquing…
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Link: Ordering from voice tubes
“Purchases made through devices such as Google Home and Amazon’s Echo are projected to leap from $2 billion to $40 billion by 2022 as technology improves, U.S. consumers become more comfortable and the speakers become nearly as commonplace in homes as a flat-screen TV, according to a new study from OC&C Strategy Consultants.” More: “Shoppers…
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Link: Why isn’t digital fixing the productivity puzzle?
“In addition, stagnant wages had implications for limiting demand growth. In our sector analysis, we found weak demand dampened productivity growth through other channels than investment, such as economies of scale and a subsector mix shift.” Original source: Why isn’t digital fixing the productivity puzzle?
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