Rob Enderle

This week IBM held an analyst session on their Watson AI platform, and it was being used to provide security and other features for the US Open.  It is uniquely capable of identifying and mitigating unique threats. Besides, it was used to assist fans debating the game and create other features that made this year’s […]

This week Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm had coming-out parties for their most potent PC technologies. Intel and Qualcomm had comprehensive solutions while NVIDIA focused on graphics cards. While the approaches were very different, each firm also had heavy references to AI capabilities that should significantly enhance how these announced offerings make it into PCs.  Let’s […]

This week was the 25th anniversary of the launch of a product that changed my life, Windows 95. The product not only changed the trajectory of personal computing; it changed my life. Let’s talk about the incredible launch and the impact the product had on the PC market this week because it is doubtful we […]

The shift to working from home was made very suddenly and without the needed lead time to figure out what the best solution should have been.  This high speed, poorly planned shift resulted in rushed laptop and Chromebook purchases and a support nightmare for both schools and businesses that seems never to end.  It was […]

There is a certain irony to calling technology like NLP (Natural Language Processing) by its acronym. This irony is because the technology is designed to be a human-machine language bridge that shifts the responsibility for communicating with computers from humans to those increasingly capable machines. But acronyms are favored by computers and not humans – […]

Artificial intelligence, like any new technology, goes through phases that are called the “hype cycle.” They begin with the technology trigger. You have a peak of over set expectations (overhyped), followed by disillusionment when the technology doesn’t meet expectations, then the slope of enlightenment where we get solid examples of success, and finally, the plateau […]

MLPerf is the definitive performance benchmark for Artificial Intelligence. The latest set of competitive performance benchmarks were released this week, and NVIDIA so dominated the benchmarks they effectively stand alone in this market right now for core functions like image classification, object detection, and machine translation. Others either didn’t have a technology ready to submit […]

IBM has recently upped their game significantly in financial services. One of their most insightful moves was to put an executive with deep banking experience, Howard Boville, SVP of IBM Cloud on the effort. Howard was CTO at Bank of America, which has historically been one of the most aggressive users of technology in the […]

I was surprised this week with the news that several Twitter celebrity accounts were compromised and used in a common Cryptocurrency scam.   Speculation on how this happened, given related postings of Twitter’s internal user control panel, would indicate the cause could have been someone hacking into a Twitter employee’s corporate account to gain access to […]

I continue to think that Robots are the next big technology trend.  The COVID-19 event seems to make this even more likely because of the need to keep people apart from each other to prevent the virus’ spread.  This week Qualcomm put on a presentation on this topic with their focus being on 5G connecting […]