On Apache Kafka®. Q&A with Gwen Shapira
Q1. What are the most important changes to Kafka in the last few years? The last few years have been an incredibly busy time for the Apache Kafka® community. The community grew quite rapidly....
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On Cloud-based AI. Q&A with James Kobielus
Q1. What is cloud-based AI? Cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) refers to intelligent applications that are built, trained, deployed, and used in cloud-computing environments, including the Internet of Things (IoT). AI is rapidly being incorporated...
The Red Queen and the Inevitability of the Amazoogle Business Model
by Shomit Ghose Illustrated by Jiani Hou “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as...
Future of Blockchain – A Berkeley Perspective
by Ikhlaq Sidhu & Alexander Fred-Ojala, SCET UC Berkeley. Current Situation: Blockchain is an Emerging Technology With a Significant Promise In 2009, a previously unknown cryptographer by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto introduced a mysterious...
On Fintech and AI. Q&A with Hitoshi Harada
Hitoshi Harada, CTO and co-founder of Alpaca. Q1. What are the main lessons you have learned as a database core developer? I started my database core developer path by jumping into the open source...
On Special Purpose Silicon. Q&A with Michael Hay
Michael Hay, Vice President & Chief Engineer at Hitachi Vantara Q1. What is special purpose silicon? It is the application of non-traditional CPU silicon technologies to problems related to data processing, network processing, artificial...
On Precision Medicine. Q&A with Todd Winey
Todd Winey | Senior Advisor, Strategic Markets | InterSystems Q1. What is Precision Medicine? There a lots of ways to define Precision Medicine, but I like to look at it from a simple perspective. Being precise...
The arduous path towards a “Smart City” … Aesop’s “The Fox and the Grapes” reloaded?
By Gianluca Dianese, MBA — Digital Transformation Officer at EASA – European Aviation Safety Agency. “Oh, you aren’t even ripe yet!” … said the fox “I don’t need any sour grapes.” You will forgive the...
How to make Artificial Intelligence fair, transparent and accountable:
Ideally, the process begins before the design phase By AJung Moon, Executive Member, IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems; CEO, Generation R Consulting Data-driven algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) already...
Q&A with Chief Data Officers: Steve Adler
“IT solutions should compliment the beauty of humanity. We must not expect humans to become machines. This is what I have learned working with people in 60 countries in 21 years at IBM.”– Steve...