The McKinsey Global Institute recently published some new analysis on the uptake of data science in various segments of the economy. The bottom line is that much of the potential for the application of data science (big data and data analytics) has not been captured,...

The Growth in Cyberattacks Makes You Wannacry William Gibson, the cyberpunk author, famously said,      The future is here already, it’s just unevenly distributed. The complement of that insight is that the past stays with us long after it might, because it’s unevenly...

The power of Artificial Intelligence to transform business and society is staggering. Theories vary about how far-reaching its impacts will be, but it is clear that human ingenuity and creativity are being augmented in ways that hardly seemed possible less than a...

A week ago, I read an article by Will Knight at the MIT Technology Review called The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI. Knight makes the case that we should be concerned about a central element of modern AI: we don’t really know how our AIs ‘decide’ what to do. Knight...

Many companies are moving towards a DevOps model for developing and deploying software and infrastructure. DevOps is also a bellwether technology for organizations: Companies that have the most mature cloud and data center strategies are three times as likely to use...