Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

AI-driven Diagnostics for Network of Boston-based Healthcare Providers

September 6th, 2017 (0)

The Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS), Boston, is at the confluence of major technology trends driving the healthcare industry: AI-based diagnostics of large volumes of medical images, shared among multiple medical institutions, utilizing GPU-based neural networks. Founded by ...

Why Immutability Should Be a Standard Feature in Cloud Storage

September 5th, 2017 (0)

Data is the new gold in our digital society, and the loss of it can cause panic or serious consequences. Recently, I saw an article about the Oakland, CA, police department losing 25 percent of its body cam videos ...

Putin: Who Controls AI ‘Will Be Ruler of the World’

September 1st, 2017 (0)

AI alarmism took on a geopolitical cast today as Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that whoever is first to build breakthrough artificial intelligence technology will have world domination. According to a story published by the Associated Press, Putin spoke ...

Unlearning Racism and Sexism in Learning Machines

August 31st, 2017 (0)

What if a learning machine learns the wrong lessons? In a world where software and machine intelligence increasingly are placed in decision making roles – such as, say, helping banks choose who gets a loan and who doesn’t – ...

The New Data Landscape: 4 Sectors into 2

August 30th, 2017 (0)

Driven by digital transformation, the data landscape is evolving from four sectors into two. The macro forces driving this shift range from IoT to machine learning and AI. Technology forces behind the change stem from requirements to ingest data ...

IoT: The Crippling Effect of Outdated Connectivity

August 25th, 2017 (0)

While hardware and cloud environments have made it easier for companies to advance their IoT infrastructures, this has also brought to the forefront a glaring, remaining challenge: connectivity. A survey conducted by IoT vendor Plat.One (acquired last September by ...

Microsoft, Intel Unveil FPGA-driven ‘Real-Time AI’ in Azure

August 23rd, 2017 (0)

We know about the seeming light-speed processing power of FPGAs and the natural fit they pose for data-dense AI workloads. But we also know that FPGAs present usability and programmability problems that flummox IT shops. It's assumed that it ...

Blockchain: Global Food Companies Use New IBM Platform for Detection of Contaminated Food

August 22nd, 2017 (0)

IBM today joined in the recent spate of blockchain news from Intel and Microsoft with two significant announcements: The adoption by major food companies of a global blockchain implementation aimed at quick detection of contaminated food, a chronic problem ...

4 Tech Giants Outline Battle Plans for High End Data Center Market of the 2020’s

August 19th, 2017 (0)

Four companies engaged in a cage fight for leadership in the emerging “advanced data center” market of the 2020s are, despite deep differences in some areas, in violent agreement on at least one thing: the power consumption and latency ...

Overcoming SD-WAN FUD

August 15th, 2017 (0)

When a promising new technology emerges, the initial excitement is soon over-shadowed by anxiety about taking on something new. SD-WAN is one such technology that has many CIOs on the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) fence. Yet, viewed within Gartner ...