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

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 …

Google Public Data Explorer Provides Extremely Cool Data Visualization

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

When it comes to dataset curation for public entities it’s generally up to them to purchase or learn software, run with it, and then publish their own results. Since public institutions generate a great deal of data, and generally run on statistics …

Another Tech Hoax: Plan B’s Anonymous Author Bows Out with a Tweet

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

This is going to be the second time I’m going to say something to the ends of: Well, that didn’t last long. First, the Plan B website came out with its well written, eloquent, and argued manifesto citing the Shareholder Nine and …

Viewdle is Here to Mix Facial Recognition and Social Networking

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Years ago, I watched an instructional video all about how to remember names. The video had been directed towards businessmen and salespeople who might have to recall the names of a host of people during their career, some people are talented at …

IBM’s Watson Smart but Not Unbeatable, How Greg Lindsay Put Man Ahead of Machine

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Monday night, February 14th 2011, we saw IBM’s natural language processing computer Watson go up against two Jeopardy! champs and whomp them solidly—until the final round when some sort of brain freeze hit the mechanical brains powerhouse and it mixed up the …

Nokia Shareholder Revolt and Effort to Ditch Elop “Plan B” Fold Up and Go Home

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

I don’t know if this news is disappointing or just a plain facepalm. It looks like the Shareholder Nine just don’t have the stomach to get their case argued and pled over a long term or they just didn’t mull it over …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

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?

Another Tech Hoax: Plan B’s Anonymous Author Bows Out with a Tweet

IBM’s Watson Smart but Not Unbeatable, How Greg Lindsay Put Man Ahead of Machine

Nokia Shareholder Revolt and Effort to Ditch Elop “Plan B” Fold Up and Go Home

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