artificial intelligence

June 13, 2017

INNOVATION

Are IoT Technologies Making the Grade?

In the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has swiftly moved from the era of pilot projects and proofs-of-concept to mainstream production. Companies are starting to run their businesses on IoT, not just experiment with it. While IoT is picking up steam, adoption is still limited by busines…

June 7, 2017

INNOVATION

Distributed AI Development Using Blockchain

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming entire industries because of higher performance and faster time to market. Part of the success is due to researchers creating and open sourcing datasets, frameworks, and algorithms (e.g., ImageNet, Caffe). Current leaders are fo…

New Date: #CiscoChat on June 16 | Develop your Career: Next Gen Digital Skills

Out of respect for the incident in Virginia on Wednesday morning, we decided to postpone the #CiscoChat originally scheduled at that time. The chat will now be held on Friday, June 16, from 9-10a.m. PT. We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope you can join us on Friday. All too often, very larg…

May 18, 2017

COLLABORATION

It’s A Bot Time – and Money

Walk into a party early and suddenly realize that it’s only you and Bill Gates in the room. Congratulations – on average, you are a billionaire! This logical twist underscores how averages can be misleading indicators – how using averages can lead to some poor conclusions. However, Bill Gates and yo…

Changing the Game: Creating Intelligent, Conversational Interfaces

My dad got me my first computer for Christmas when I was 11 years old. It was a Texas Instruments 99-4a. He must have gotten it second hand because it had no box or any form of storage like a tape drive. But that didn’t stop me. I had been obsessed with the movie War Games, so my first program on th…

May 11, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Transforming Collaboration Through Artificial Intelligence with Cisco’s Acquisition of MindMeld

Artificial Intelligence represents a tremendous opportunity to expand the reach and enhance the capabilities of enterprise technology. At Cisco, we have already been introducing AI into our solutions across security, orchestration, application performance and collaboration. Today, I’m excited to sha…

April 26, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 06: Reuven Cohen, Aporeto

Reuven Cohen works for Aporeto—a company that delivers comprehensive security for cloud native apps, containers, and microservices. But that is probably the least interesting thing about him, and to his credit, he didn’t actually pitch the company’s products at all during our interview with him on M…

January 9, 2017

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

CES 2017 – Get Ready for a Smart New World

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) usually highlights important technology trends that could shape the future. This year, artificial intelligence (AI), the smart IoT sensors that fuel it, and increasingly powerful and seamless human machine interfaces (HMIs) topped the list for me. On the AI front,…