<span class="vcard">John Desmond</span>
John Desmond

People Architecture and Agile Compensation May Save HR in AI Era

The warning stirs distant memories of the recessionary year 2008 and the Dotcom bust a few years earlier. So many companies, from startups to one-time Blue Chips, laid off thousands of workers or simply disappeared through bankruptcy or acquisition. Their IT teams, entrenched in dated technologies, went from unemployed to unemployable. These weren’t layoffs of […]

Here are 10 strategies to help you keep up with the AI revolution

From smartphones and kitchen gadgets to cars to manufacturing equipment, artificial intelligence and automation have become firmly embedded in modern everyday life. As these useful technologies gain steam in the workplace, businesses everywhere will have to adapt their processes or risk falling behind. To help leaders prepare for the growing presence of AI and automation […]

Extra-Scenery Perception (ESP2) for Self-Driving Cars: Beyond the Norm

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I was driving on a highway in Northern California recently when I saw up ahead of me a wind turbine off the side of the road. I’ve seen modern wind turbines before, but this one caught my eye. I liked the design of it and this one […]

MIT, SenseTime advancing AI research as part of new MIT Intelligence Quest

.MIT and SenseTime today announced that SenseTime, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, is joining MIT’s efforts to define the next frontier of human and machine intelligence. SenseTime was founded by MIT alumnus Xiao’ou Tang PhD ’96 and specializes in computer vision and deep learning technologies. The MIT-SenseTime Alliance on Artificial Intelligence aims to open […]

You Need These 8 Essential Roles for a Successful Digital Transformation

Hiring enough software engineers, DevOps managers, cloud computing specialists and other roles required to facilitate IT transformations remain tall tasks for CIOs. But the talent crunch isn’t limited to those with coding skills and algorithmic thinking: Enterprises are also struggling to hire staff with soft skills who can help shape the user experience around digital […]

IBM, Google Work on Training Machine Learning Models with Less Data

For IBM Watson CTO Rob High, the biggest technological challenge in machine learning right now is figuring out how to train models with less data. “It’s a challenge, it’s a goal and there’s certainly reason to believe that it’s possible,” High told me during an interview at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. With […]

Weekly Brief: AI Making Inroads Into Maritime Industry via Startups

The traditional maritime industry is about to be disrupted by marine technology startups incorporating AI, robotics and other new technology that have the potential to lower costs and improve outcomes. Here is a review of selected marine technology startups who represent this new wave of activity and how some are incorporating AI into their solutions. […]

Over-The-Air (OTA) Updating for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Windows updates. You are probably like me in that when you see that it’s time to install Windows updates to your PC it is a moment of internal angst and overall distress. I am betting this flashes through your mind: Should you go ahead and let the […]

How Blockchain Technology and Cognitive Computing Work Together

When it comes to revolutionary technology, the blockchain and cognitive computing are two at the top of the list in 2018. With these technologies finally being put to use in practical applications, we’re learning more and more about what they can do on their own—and together. Let’s take a look at how some industries can […]

Set up Your Operations Tech and Data Science Teams for Success

No professionals are more important to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) than data scientists. Data scientists are charged with taking vast amounts of raw industrial data, creating structure within that data, and ultimately finding valuable meaning. In other words, let’s dump a bunch of dirty data on these data scientists, tell them whatever we […]