Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Speaks to the Power of Mobile in his Internet Advertising Bureau Keynote Speech

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

In his keynote speech at the Internet Advertising Bureau Annual Leadership meeting, Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered a message concerning the advertising power of mobile. In his speech, he makes heavy use of statistics gained from the recent Super Bowl and how …

Google Maneuvers to Further Horn in on Microsoft Office’s Turf with Cloud Connect

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Google seems to have its eye on the unfettered office with the release of a new free tool that will ease the portability of Microsoft documents to the web for collaboration. The tool, Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, will integrate into Microsoft …

Open Xerox Puts Software Research and Development into the Eager Hands of the Public

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

I’m not old enough to remember Xerox PARC, but its contributions to modern software and GUI design haven’t passed me lightly. Now, Xerox is looking to do homage to that explosion of innovation in the 1970s with an open research site that …

Microsoft Demos Advancements in NUI (Natural User Interfaces) and Kinect is in the Picture

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Researchers at Microsoft show that they’re really thinking hard about how humans interact with computers and how the Kinect has provided a surge of innovation in this direction. Natural User Interfaces should be the next-big-thing and include a lot of things science …

Apple’s FaceTime for Mac Arrives in Mac App Store for $0.99 a Pop

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

It’s become official, Apple just released FaceTime for Mac in the Mac App Store today. Now Mac OS X users can chat with other Apple customers on their iPhone 4 and iPod Touch. With the video-chat feature entering into an already growing …

IBM’s Watson in Retrospect, Ken Jennings and Others Weigh In

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Over the Valentine’s Day week, IBM’s expert-system Watson took on all-time Jeopardy! winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and pretty much trounced them. This has generated a great deal of speculation and a lot of buzz for IBM. If nothing else, this …

Microsoft’s Kinect SDK Could Open the Door for a PC App Store

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

The recent announcement by Microsoft that they intend to release a personal SDK for the Kinect that will enable the production of applications for Windows 7 has come with much fanfare. Commentary from Craig Mundie, the software giant’s chief strategy and research …

Generating Crowds: Astroturfing Propaganda Software and Social Media Collide

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

There’s a lot of research to be done on crowdsourcing—the method of turning minor human actions into large, complex activities or processes; but what about the opposite, certainly marketing could make use of the ability to generate the illusion of a crowd …

UberTwitter and twidroyd Restored by Twitter, Blackberry Natives Still Restless

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

From the looks of it two of the apps that Twitter gave the axe last week have gotten the keys to the API back and are once again back in the fray. UberTwitter, now known as UberSocial, and twidroyd have been returned …

What Does IBM’s Watson Tell Us About Potential Future Expert-Systems?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

During the test-run of IBM’s Watson in a short series of Jeopardy! matches we saw the expert-system manage to answer a lot of questions quickly and correctly—but we also saw it make some extremely wacky mistakes. The lead researcher on IBM’s Watson …

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Latest from Kyt Dotson

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Speaks to the Power of Mobile in his Internet Advertising Bureau Keynote Speech

Open Xerox Puts Software Research and Development into the Eager Hands of the Public

Microsoft Demos Advancements in NUI (Natural User Interfaces) and Kinect is in the Picture

IBM’s Watson in Retrospect, Ken Jennings and Others Weigh In

Microsoft’s Kinect SDK Could Open the Door for a PC App Store

What Does IBM’s Watson Tell Us About Potential Future Expert-Systems?

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