IT Trends

False information has economic, political, and social consequences.

Incidents of ransomware have been escalating, which could be fueled in part by the diffusion of crypto-currencies.

Considerable buzz surrounds artificial intelligence, and, indeed, AI is all around us.

The author discusses the relevance of big data approaches to the financial sector, outlining challenges to adoption…

Some project that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence AI will endow technology with a "superintelligence" that will surpass human intelligence…

For Internet of Things IoT application ecosystems to excel, end-to-end components including the cloud, network, and edge devices…

Rich visual information is becoming increasingly important in today's Web, as evidenced by the popularity of social networks, the extensive use…

Exciting new applications of Internet of Things IoT technology are arising, particularly in healthcare, where the leveraging…

Crypto-currency remains controversial, and Bitcoin, a leading open source initiative to create an alternative form of currency, is at the center of this…

IT project failures are unfortunately still pervasive throughout the world.

The Internet of Cores IoC is a new conceptual phenomenon for provisioning on-demand elastic computing and storage resources to people and…

Graph databases are a relatively new database technology gaining popularity.

Program management is a systems- and industrial-engineering-related process for organizing and managing an organization's projects.

The authors explore seven operational and strategic technology capabilities and management practices, which are shaping today's enterprise IT…

The new world of mobile devices offers reasonable likelihood that virtual currency will prevail on a global scale.

Disruptive IT innovations have already had a transformational effect on production, services, and business processes around the world, and now a constellation…

In this difficult job environment, you need to have an edge over your competitors.

Recently, there has been a great deal of news in the international media pertaining to various disclosures that governments--the US government, in…

Massively open online courses MOOCs promise free, high-quality, university-course content to anyone with Internet access, but in reality, they're no…

Licensure of certain software engineers in the US will be required in at least 10 states by 2013 and, likely, by all US states and jurisdictions…

The US Space Shuttle program helped start many careers and companies and initiate countless breakthroughs in computing hardware and software,…

The collection of clouds available to us represents a marketplace, just like any other.

The collection of clouds available to us represents a marketplace, just like any other.

Games hosted in social networks, gaming servers or mobile phones can be used as massively parallel, but surreptitious processing networks.

My dogs, Maggie and Teddie, have RFID chips im planted near their shoulders to help identify them if they're ever lost or taken.

Recent conversations pertaining to licensure of software engineers in the US and offshoring had me thinking about Carmen again.

What do broken windows, merit systems, and cattle prods have to do with new processes and compliance rules Can the laws of unintended…

As is traditional this time of year, Phillip A. Laplante prognosticates on the state of IT for next year and reflects on his last set of predictions.