Mark Albertson, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Latest Kubernetes update sets stage for KubeCon in May

By Mark Albertson Mar 28, 2018

With the release of Kubernetes 1.10 in March, developers and users familiar with the project will have plenty to discuss when the community gathers in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 2 through 4 for KubeCon,…

Cloud

Oracle serves up its Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, seasoned with Amazon-bashing

By Mark Albertson Mar 27, 2018

It’s probably a safe bet that when Oracle Corp. Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison wakes up in the morning, he doesn’t converse with Alexa. The company’s founder spent more than an hour Tuesday…

AI

From China to the US, AI still looks a lot like us: imperfect and still learning

By Mark Albertson Mar 27, 2018

Artificial intelligence holds tremendous promise, has been a major disappointment or is a threat that will derail civilization as we know it. All of those views, in fact, were apparent during discussions this week…

Big Data

This data company is accelerating production to conquer the last mile

By Mark Albertson Mar 27, 2018

Picture a room of information technology professionals where they are asked a simple question: How many have been working on a data science model that still has not gone into production after nine months?…

Emerging Tech

Technologist learned organizational lessons from Yahoo failure

By Mark Albertson Mar 23, 2018

Salim Ismail (pictured) has a vision for the organization of the future, and it doesn’t look anything like what exists today. Centralized authority will become distributed, closed decision-making will move toward openness and transparency,…

Big Data

Now at the tipping point, football analytics offer new view of the game

By Mark Albertson Mar 23, 2018

Walk into any National Football League stadium on game day and the scene is similar in many ways. There are cheerleaders, music, a very large scoreboard, vendors hawking food and drink in the aisles, and two…

Emerging Tech

Could programmable money dethrone the U.S. dollar?

By Mark Albertson Mar 23, 2018

The U.S. dollar accounts for two-thirds (63.5 percent) of global reserves held in central banks around the world, according to the latest data from the International Monetary Fund. It is essentially the de facto global currency…

Big Data

Blockchain goes from proof of concept to production at IBM

By Mark Albertson Mar 23, 2018

When Satoshi Nakamoto released his seminal whitepaper on a peer-to-peer electronic cash system called bitcoin in 2008, he also outlined the underlying technology to operate the fledgling digital currency. That platform — the blockchain…

Big Data

NBA advertisers chew on data from GumGum’s computer vision tool

By Mark Albertson Mar 22, 2018

Last year, the National Basketball Association implemented a decision to allow sponsors to place small logo patches on player uniforms. It was the first time that the NBA had permitted jersey advertising, and it…

Big Data

Game plan for IBM: Build AI enterprise for itself, showcase it for customers

By Mark Albertson Mar 22, 2018

IBM Corp. announced the launch of Watson Assistant this week, an artificial intelligence agent that will allow enterprises to access stored data via text or voice command. IBM’s new digital assistant joins a growing…

Mark Albertson

From China to the US, AI still looks a lot like us: imperfect and still learning

Technologist learned organizational lessons from Yahoo failure

Now at the tipping point, football analytics offer new view of the game

NBA advertisers chew on data from GumGum’s computer vision tool

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