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An OS for people: How a simple word-processing program grew to planetary scale
Who ever said operating systems were only for devices? From the early trinity of floppy disks packaged in a cardboard box to the connectivity of today’s O365, Office has become the go-to productivity tool for the world. Now, Microsoft is bringing the power of artificial intelligence to Office. The goal? To make Office the underlying ...
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Programming for the people: Microsoft aims to empower citizen coders
Students in community college know that becoming a developer is a smart career choice. But learning to code means choosing from an array of languages. Without a crystal ball to the future, predicting the best bet is a tough decision to make. The bigger question may be if learning a coding language is really going ...
Designing for the accidental narcissist: Focus on experience is driver for Gen C innovation
Experience is what counts. An incoming wave of connected consumers — known as Generation C — are not bound by traditional demographics. Instead they share behaviors, interests and expectations driven by the digital era. Accustomed to instant gratification, they expect everything to be tailored to their needs and delivered now. Delay them or displease them, ...
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5G and workplace diversity linked by common goal: Remove limits to transform society
New technologies are bringing a wave of change, and no technology is more highly anticipated than 5G networking. Speeds up to 100 times faster than current 4G promise almost instant connectivity and make the “internet of things” and automated vehicles mainstream reality. Just last week, China announced mass deployment of 5G, beating a projected 2020 launch date ...
Q&A: AWS, New Relic combine forces to simplify cloud migration
Cloud migration is like a comet with a huge trailing tail. The pioneers blazed to the cloud, reinventing how the world does business. Following behind, companies large and small started to migrate data and applications to the cloud. The journey turned out to be filled with false leads and twists and turns. Today, companies have to decide ...
AIOps links man and machine to manage data overload
Data management has caused headaches since the dawn of the big-data era in the early 2000s. Since then, the exponential increase in data has spawned a plethora of tools designed to control the increasingly complex demands of edge computing and the internet of things. Humans alone or traditional tooling can’t keep up. The ideal solution: people ...
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Blend of creativity and technological skills gives women an edge in AI
Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace is more important than ever. But the reason is more practical than political. Artificial intelligence is slowly working its way into mainstream culture, making decisions on everything from what products hit your feed to if you receive approval on a loan or pass the first screening for ...
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Q&A: Splunk CEO Doug Merritt on harnessing the power of data
An abundance of data is the blessing and curse of the digital era. While the ability to gather huge amounts of data is great, static data can’t create value or drive business decisions. Businesses need fast access to clean data for effective analysis. Enabling the insights essential to build a competitive edge. “Data is awesome, but we ...
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Edge computing drives storage innovation while China edges its way into flash memory
The superpowers of the new economy are also the buzz words changing how the world interacts: Artificial intelligence, the “internet of things” and edge computing are the megatrends dominating the conversation on both a business and a personal level. “Practical everyday things are being done in AI,” said David Floyer, co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s ...
Q&A: IBM Watson Anywhere democratizes data access across multicloud environment
It’s been over eight years since IBM Corp’s natural language question-answering computer system, known as Watson, wowed the world by winning the Jeopardy! Challenge. Beating the show’s human champions was an entertaining demonstration of the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning. However, Watson’s purpose is much greater than answering trivia questions. Today, Watson is focused on ...