Rob Enderle

IBM just lost the number one spot on the top 500 supercomputer list to Japan and ARM. You’d think they’d be upset.   But they aren’t because they have a technology called “IBM Bayesian Optimization Technology” that potentially will supercharge any supercomputer. The performance increase is up to a 140x performance boost (I’ll bet you wish […]

While a lot of companies are permanently shifting to more of a work at home model, enough aren’t, resulting in some rather dire traffic predictions.   Those making the shift are discovering a ton of additional problems, and IBM just rolled out a dedicated AI solution called Watson Works to address those challenges. Let’s talk about […]

One of the initial leaders in Facial Recognition was IBM and, their initial experience (much of it bad), with the technology, helped the company understand the problems with bias. Bias remains one of the significant issues with the development of AI because it can not only make the technology unreliable; it can change it from […]

I’ve been fascinated with Intel’s Optane memory ever since it launched. Promising and delivering on performance and capabilities that combined the non-volatile elements of flash with a performance that approached system memory, it seemed to be a massive game-changer for both the desktop and in storage.  There are an impressive number of products that use […]

Earlier this week, I was interviewed on the use of supercomputers to fight the COVID-19 outbreak, and I thought it might be interesting to talk about the progress so far.  One of the largest efforts in terms of resources, companies, and results currently being undertaken to fight the COVID-19 outbreak is IBM’s HPC Consortium.  It […]

Microsoft Build is often a fascinating conference because if you look at several things they announce and then project those efforts into the future, you can get a better sense of when future revolutionary offerings might arrive. A case in point is that at Build this year, Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, spoke about a […]

Conversational AI is closer to the artificial intelligence we have been expecting and not getting in completed products. The closest thing we have are Digital Assistants like the Amazon Echo, which is mostly just a good speech to text engine working off of Google Search. But with a Conversational AI, the promise is not only […]

IBM Think this year was virtual and while the speakers were well-rehearsed, the event length was just about right, I was again reminded that we still have a lot of learning to do to virtualize conferences effectively. One of the tools that could be used to do this is IBM’s Watson, which could help customize […]

Now a lot of you like me are watching Westworld and are likely thinking, whew, humanity is good for at least another year, but that’s not where I’m going with this. Google developed an AI to help with diagnosis at scale, and it was impressively accurate in the lab but not so much in actual […]

Blackberry has been having virtual events to make up for the COVID-19 cancellation of Blackberry World. At their latest event, they showcased how the AI technology created for autonomous cars could be used to massively transform hospitals into a far less costly, far easier to manage institutions. Clearly, this could go beyond healthcare into airport […]