Watch out Google Maps! The automotive industry has noticed that smartphones have become the ultimate car accessory, and they’re starting to play for the win. Aiding in car-makers’ quest to out-innovate the best is the Autotech Council, a Silicon Valley “club” that brings together representatives of the largest car manufacturers and technology innovators. “They’re not coming here ...

Network infrastructure and software development are separate computing cultures with separate requirements and languages, but application program interfaces are blurring the lines of traditional computing architectures. After all, those gadgets now comprising the “internet of things” still connect through wireless networks. As networking hardware becomes more programmable, software developers have to meet the challenge of creating a ...

Human decision making is a convoluted procedure where biases, trade-offs, past experiences, and time and place-sensitive variables consciously and subconsciously influence the final outcome. Traditionally, this data has been written off as “noise” and the human thought process considered illogical and unscientific. But as the boundaries of artificial intelligence and machine learning grow, previously diverse ...

Enterprise cloud computing is a complex, heterogeneous world, and the trend toward more disaggregated workloads makes it harder to keep control over data and applications. Not only is the technology changing, but the role of internet protocol and infrastructure professionals has also become fluid and dynamic, throwing another variable into an already chaotic field. Simplifying the ...

One of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s key priorities is to put the customer first, starting by finding out what they want and need and working backwards from there. No customer comment or opinion is unimportant at AWS, to the point where the attentiveness crosses into an obsession. “Amazon is very methodical in the way that we ...

Empathy and creativity might not be the most obvious skill sets for a career in data science, but balancing social science with hard science is what makes data analysis entertaining, according to Margot Gerritsen (pictured), senior associate dean and director of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University and founder of the Women in Data Science conference. “As a data scientist, one of ...

Despite new opportunities and active recruitment, American women are still shying away from cybersecurity and data science careers, forcing U.S. government agencies to hire from a predominantly male recruitment pool, according to Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham (pictured), distinguished professor of computer science and executive director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas. “Most ...

Facebook may be scrambling to reassure its two billion users that their data privacy is being respected, but no one can deny that data willingly and openly shared is being appropriated for proprietary profit by the big social networks. Changing this equation to give the power back to the individual is communication platform provider Sensay Inc. “We want ...

The blockchain community is taking control of its narrative with Netflix Inc. bankrolling the “Hardfork” mini-series, a sci-fi thriller about the power of decentralization and how it can disrupt authoritarian role. Blockchain industry veteran, film producer, YouTube celebrity, and host of BlockChain Unbound Naomi Brockwell (pictured) is a part of the project as a producer and actor. “To ...

As the tidal wave of open-source money disrupts the entire stack from computing infrastructure to software developers, alpha geeks and pure entrepreneurs are getting in on the ground floor of what they believe will be the primary currency of the future. “Open source has eaten software … so, now, what do you think is going to ...